Richard Moore's praise of Marie Watters Colton apparently paid off.
As Jordan Schrader points out on his Capital Letters blog, the state treasurer suggested renaming the Vance-Aycock Dinner after Colton, the former speaker pro tem from Buncombe County, during a brouhaha over Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock.
According to an Oct. 2 story in the Asheville Citizen-Times, Moore said Aycock doesn't represent Democratic values today:
He said plenty of Western North Carolinians, like the late House Speaker Liston Ramsey, of Madison County, or former Speaker Pro Tem Marie Colton, of Buncombe County, would make better namesakes than Goldsboro native Aycock.
Colton was among a group of former female legislators who endorsed Moore's gubernatorial campaign today.
