General Assembly slow to investigate LaRoque
Submitted by scharrison on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 1:07pm
So much for the "anti-corruption" GOP leadership:
Per the request of N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, the assembly’s bipartisan Legislative Ethics Committee is deciding whether to follow the USDA and launch a review of their own.
"Deciding"? The red flags have been waving on this issue for months now, and it's looking like LaRoque's shenanigans may have tainted other Legislators:
LaRoque is accused of making loans to two fellow legislators, putting relatives and close associates on his businesses board of directors, paying himself up to $195,000 a year and making a $200,000 loan from the nonprofits to his for-profit company.
And you haven't "decided" yet that an ethics investigation is in order? Whatever renumer...remoon...whatever money that Commission is being paid by taxpayers is apparently too much.
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Laroque
is not an admirable person. But he's certainly embodies the kind of mindset that the new leadership in the House and Senate have brought to their offices.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
-Edmund Burke
Has anyone asked Democratic
Has anyone asked Democratic House Leader Hackney about any Ethics Committee meetings?
I've heard that Tillis and much (not all) of the House GOP are waiting to see if the Feds would get involved to decide. Tillis as made a mistake by waiting and not dealing with this sooner. He appears to be just what he is - a conniving politician instead of the statesman he fantasizes he is. That isn't going to be very helpful to the GOP this election cycle.
Wonder what Sen Pro Tem Berger thinks of this?
Berger
is irrelevant, an also-ran in every sense, fully eclipsed by Thom "Divide and Conquer" Tillis. The senate does whatever Tillis wants, and Tillis wants whatever Art Pope tells him to want.
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