Morgan Mum on Future
Friday, March 30th, 2007
By Chris Fitzsimon
BY DAVID SINCLAIR: MANAGING EDITOR
Final of three parts
Voters sent former state Rep. Richard Morgan packing last year, but he vows that Moore County and North Carolina have not heard the last of him.
"I haven’t forgotten who the enemy is," Morgan says. "The enemy is outside this county. They have hoodooed a lot of folks in Moore County. There’ll be a day of reckoning on this."
Among others, Morgan was referring to Art Pope, a former state representative from Wake County whose company, Variety Stores, contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to an anti-Morgan group called the Republican Legislative Majority of North Carolina (RLM) from 2004 to 2006.
"They spent $600,000 to defeat me," Morgan says.
Morgan, who had represented Moore County since 1990, was defeated by Joe Boylan, a political newcomer and hair salon owner, in a bitter Republican primary last May. He had a lot of outside help, including the leadership of the state party itself. (more…)
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