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Please remind your neighbors that Democrats have been selling government in Raleigh the last 16 years. We need to elect Pat McCrory as governor and recruit and elect honorable Republicans to state house and senate. From the Raleigh News and Observer about another state Democrat going to prison: Hudson admitted working out a deal with executives of Agri-Ethanol Products in which Hudson would guarantee a smooth environmental permitting process in exchange for $100,000 in cash and a consulting contract worth nearly an additional $100,000. OTHER RECENT CORRUPTION CASES (also from the News and Observer): JIM BLACK: The former House speaker, a Democrat, is in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to taking thousands in cash payments from chiropractors interested in issues before the legislature. MICHAEL DECKER: The former state legislator is in federal prison after pleading guilty last year to selling a vote that helped keep Black in power for a record-tying eight years. KEVIN GEDDINGS: The former state lottery commissioner is in federal prison after he was found guilty of fraud when he failed to report thousands of dollars in payments from lottery companies on his state ethics form. FRANK BALLANCE: The former Democratic congressman was sentenced to four years in federal prison in 2005 for funneling roughly $100,000 in public money from an anti-drug nonprofit he founded to his law firm, church and relatives. MEG SCOTT PHIPPS: The former state agriculture commissioner, a Democrat, served more than three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to extortion, mail fraud and conspiracy. State and federal prosecutors said she took thousands of dollars in illegal cash contributions from vendors for the State Fair in exchange for favorable contracts. |
