Campbell does not tell the full story of that "power sharing" in 2003. The Republican House caucus chose Rep. Leo Daughtry (R-Johnson) as its leader in a 50/50 power share with the Democrats. However, obsessed with power and ego, Rep. Richard Morgan (R-Moore) and a few of his buddies sought a seperate deal with the Democrats that would give Morgan a title and a small taste of power to his followers but leave the Democrats really in control. Becoming aware of this, Daughtry withdrew his name and the caucus selected another choise, a legislator who Morgan had no beefs with. Morgan went ahead with his sellout of the GOP caucus anyway, in spite of the new caucus choice.
Two years later, many of Morgan's allies were thrown out in primaries for party disloyalty, and two years after that most of the remainer including Morgan himself bit the dust in primaries. Richard Morgan is still remembered as North Carolina's version of Benedict Arnold. As to Decker's swith, there was more involved that the Democrats' corrupt IHOP payoff. Decker had visions of being Speaker Pro Tem, but the GOP caucus selected someone else, and he was in a snit about that, making him receptive to the Democrats' cash. The Morgan shananigans is all too similar with what we have been seeing for years on the Beaufort County Commission, where voters keep giving us a Republican majority on paper, but we never seem to be able to seat a Republican majoroity county commission. |
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Eventually, the word will be fully broadcast and believed by all honest citizens that these sorry Republicans that vote like Democrats, who mostly support Democrat initiatives really are just Richard-Morgan-like-traitorous-Democrats ... fully corrupt to the core.
It all begins when a clear majority allows "power sharing." Such a fine corruption, condoned and supported by the Beaufort County GOP, just leads to greater corruption going forward, and then ... where does it end.