Rep. Harold Brubaker remembers things differently.
On the stand yesterday, former Speaker Jim Black told a damning story about the Randolph County Republican's time as speaker in 1997.
According to Black, Brubaker wooed then Rep. Robert Brawley Jr., an Iredell County Republican. Black said that Brawley wanted a $300,000 contribution to his children's trust fund.
But Brubaker told the Greensboro News & Record that wasn't the case:
"First of all, I don't do that. That's something I've never been involved in,'' Brubaker said during an interview at his legislative office. "I was shocked when I heard about that."
Brawley, meantime, had his own version of events.
More after the jump.
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Brubaker told the N&R that he visited Brawley before the 1997 speaker's race and asked what it would take to keep him Republican.
He said that Brawley asked to be speaker pro tempore and co-chairman of the powerful finance committee. He said he agreed to support him.
Brawley lost the speaker pro tem race to Rep. Steve Wood, but he became finance chairman.
He told the N&R that Black offered to send clients to his insurance business and Brubaker offered him the speaker pro tem job. He said Brubaker also offered to help work out a $50,000 loan that went sour, but he turned him down:
"I told him it wasn't about the money, it was about integrity in government."
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