Rep. Carolyn Justus is fighting for apple cobbler.
The Henderson County Republican told the Hendersonville Times-News that she is writing a bill that would loosen state ethics laws to help bring back a Republican cobbler fundraiser.
The local GOP, it seems, has long raised money at its annual Apple Festival by selling $3 slices of cobbler and ice cream. The event usually brings in about $4,000.
But the party called off the party this year because of a 2006 ethics law that requires any such donation be attached to a name.
"The public isn't interested in giving you that kind of information for $3 worth of apple cobbler," Henderson GOP Chairman Spence Campbell told the paper.
In an appearance at the local Republican Men's Club, Justus said the ethics bill was an overreaction to scandals surrounding Jim Black. She pledged to rewrite the law to allow cobbler sales.
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