The lawsuit, which may never see the inside of a courtroom, is politically charged because it seeks to overturn Morgan’s politically motivated bill that in effect reverses the results of the election four years ago of Commissioners Paul Helms and David Cummings and the election two years ago of Commissioner Bob Ewing. And could it just be that Morgan says the lawsuit is politically motivated because Art Blue, the lawyer representives plaintiffs Malcolm Owings and Norris Hodgkins, ran against Morgan four years ago?
It’s a complete waste of taxpayers’ dollars because it falls to Attorney General Roy Cooper to defend — at taxpayers’ expense — this affront to democracy.
Morgan casts himself as a friend of the taxpayer and one who stands in perpetual opposition to increasing taxes. If Morgan is really who he says he is, he should hire his own lawyer to defend the bill in court and pay the legal eagle he retains out of his own pocket. After all, the attorney general’s office has better things to do, and Owings and Hodgkins are paying their own legal expenses. If Morgan has enough campaign cash laying around to have contributed $100,000 to the Republican National Committee a couple of years ago, he can pay his lawyer.
North Carolina taxpayers are waiting for Rep. Morgan to put his money where is mouth is by preventing this complete waste of taxpayers’ dollars.
