Gov. Mike Easley called for Rep. Thomas Wright to resign.
At a press conference this morning, the governor said that the Wilmington Democrat's case was more straightforward than former House Speaker Jim Black's.
Here's the quote, courtesy of Laura Leslie at Hunter's Tavern:
"Here, you've got bank records and a campaign account, and ether they match up or they don't, and they don't. And then you have the Board of Elections finding pages and pages of what they consider to be criminal violations that they're turning over to the District Attorney. So it's a different circumstance. And I think it's one where the representative needs to move on."
She's also got audio of the press conference.
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Previously, House Speaker Joe Hackney, state Sen. Julia Boseman, Democratic consultant Gary Pearce, Democratic blogger James Protzman a.k.a. Anglico, the N.C. Public Interest Research Group, the Wilmington Journal, the editorial boards of the Wilmington Star-News and the Charlotte Observer, campaign finance reformer Joe Sinsheimer and the N.C. Republican Party called for Wright's resignation.
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