Don Beason said he's quitting lobbying.
In a brief conversation with Charlotte Observer columnist Jack Betts, the lobbyist said that he had informed the Secretary of State that he would no longer be a registered lobbyist.
"It's not fair to my clients to put them through something like this," Beason said, according to a post on Betts' blog, This Old State.
In recent weeks, Beason has had contracts canceled or suspended with Catawba County, BB&T, Progress Energy, Cingular Wireless and Carolina Ballet.
Betts said Beason wasn't sure if he would still be an effective lobbyist given the questions raised by the revelation that he loaned disgraced former House Speaker Jim Black $500,000 in 2000.
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