A former state legislator says this was a "do-something" session.
Former Rep. Wayne Goodwin, who is married to Hamlet Democratic Rep. Melanie Wade Goodwin, writes on his blog "Wayne's World" that the 2007 legislature had a number of "great accomplishments."
Among the achievements: Creating a high-risk insurance pool, ending counties' Medicaid burden, enacting ethics law changes, starting a pilot program for publicly financed campaigns and requiring mental health parity on insurance.
He argues that Republicans are wrong to call this a "do-nothing legislature":
I beg to differ. If anything, the Democratic leaders in Raleigh made this a "Do Something" session. And they did it quite well.
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