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NC House Speaker questioned on ethics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122901304.html

Scandal Arrives Before New State Lottery
House Speaker and Top Aide Under Investigation for Possible Corruption in Measure's Passage

By Mark Johnson
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, December 30, 2005; Page A02

RALEIGH, N.C. -- When North Carolina's legislature relented from its decades-long opposition to a state lottery this summer, preachers and conservative lawmakers warned that wherever gambling goes, scandal follows.

Even they never predicted it would arrive so fast.

[SmoothTalker]

Jim Black is one of the most corrupt politicians my state has ever seen. I despise the man. Almost everything he is involved with is tainted somehow by corruption.