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Re: Some quick math on Beason's lobbying

PaulTerrell — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:58:37 -0400

So Beason, A democrat by the way, did not pay income taxes on the part he did not report? So why haven't he and his son been arrested?

Re: Some quick math on Beason's lobbying

j1c2kp — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:09:04 -0400

Thanks for clarifying that for me. I was ready to sign up as a lobbyist.

Re: Some quick math on Beason's lobbying

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:01:15 -0400

No, you're wrong. I'm talking about what Beason and his clients reported to the N.C. Secretary of State as lobbying payments.

He'd have to report all income — lobbying and consulting — to the Internal Revenue Service, and by extension, the N.C. Department of Revenue.

To be clear, I'm not aware of any allegations that he's not paid taxes.

— RTB

Re: Some quick math on Beason's lobbying

j1c2kp — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:53:30 -0400

Ryan am I reading this right? He could have possibly made a million or more but only reported $145,521, meaning he didn't have to pay the IRS, just pocketed the money? Is that some law that those wonderful politicians came up with?

Man am I in the wrong line of work.

Re: The consulting loophole, revisited

j1c2kp — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:12:57 -0400

Who writes the state laws? Legislators! And they protect their own.

Re: Dalton raised $2.5m by end of '08

GrayJ — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:47:48 -0500

Retiring Rep. Jim Harrell or defeated Rep. Jim Harrell?

Re: Who Beason's clients have hired

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:49:28 -0400

Comment deleted for unproven assertion.

— RTB

Re: Young raised $449,000 by end of 2007

FFC1304 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:12:08 -0500

another corrupt democrackkk...

Re: Beason's Albemarle contract

MeckDeck — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:24:46 -0400

Has the IRS been alerted?

Re: GOP: Drop Beason

beason_is_slime — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:13:58 -0400

I hope this is not the end of the N&O's coverage of this issue.

This man is the reason that we needed to pass ethics legislation in NC last year.

He is the lobbyist who delivered cash in brown paper bags to legislators.

He is the lobbyist who brown-nosed the Capitol Press every Tuesday at lunch...buying their lunches to make sure they never wrote a negative article about him or his clients. Maybe that's why they "speculated" it was Lynwood Mercer (a dead man), rather than the guy that they eat lunch with every week - and the guy everyone else in the lobbying world knew was the $500k man.

He is the lobbyist who regulary paid for the tabs at legislative meetings in Asheville or Greensboro so that he was welcomed into the legislator's offices when he had an issue. (check out the N&O archive for articles on this issue).

He is the lobbyist who can be traced as the root of almost every problem any lobbyist in Raleigh has had when one of his/her bills have been "killed" or "changed" behind closed doors...and it happend both in the Senate and House.

He is the lobbyist that had a standing dinner every Monday night at the Glenwood Grill with President Pro Tem Marc Basnight and Senator David Hoyle...and whatever other Senators he needed to strong-arm...until the ethics laws changed and took away that "in".

He is the lobbyist who has been seen around town - breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, drinks - with the former chief of staff of Co-Speaker Morgan, and the current Senate Finance Counsel...I wonder why bad bills for his clients never appear in the Senate Finance Committee?

Wow...I wonder why the N&O and every other new source in the state hasn't at least done a check of their own news archives for stories on Beason over the last week or two. It's not like he was an "unknown source" before Jim Black was convicted.

Re: GOP: Drop Beason

goldiemorris — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:46:57 -0400

I wouldn't think he would be welcome in either party. I don't believe he can ever again be an effective lobbiest, especially with the new ethics rules! He has none!!!

Re: GOP: Drop Beason

kimkim — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:56:47 -0400

Hmmm....

BEASON, DON

Total Given to Date: $28,750 (17 records)

Address: RALEIGH, NC 27608

Employer: THE CAPITAL GROUP

Occupation: CONSULTANT

Breakdown by Political Affiliation
Party Counts Total % of Overall
Democrat 10 $17,750 61.74%
Republican 7 $11,000 38.26%
Third Party 0 $0 0.00%
Ballot Measures 0 $0 0.00%

Contributions to Candidates
Total number of records: 15

BLACK, JAMES B (JIM) HOUSE Won DEMOCRAT NC $4,000 05/07/2004

MORGAN, RICHARD T HOUSE Won REPUBLICAN NC $4,000 05/04/2004

BASNIGHT, MARC SENATE Won DEMOCRAT NC $4,000 04/22/2004

CULPEPPER, BILL HOUSE Won DEMOCRAT NC $4,000 10/21/2003

SMITH, FRED SENATE Won REPUBLICAN NC $2,000 08/21/2003

BRUBAKER, HAROLD J HOUSE Won REPUBLICAN NC $2,000 09/30/2003

STEVENS, RICHARD SENATE Won REPUBLICAN NC $1,000 11/28/2003

THOMAS, SCOTT SENATE Won DEMOCRAT NC $1,000 01/08/2003

SMITH, FRED SENATE Won REPUBLICAN NC $1,000 08/10/2004

EDDINS, RICK HOUSE Won REPUBLICAN NC $500 09/27/2004

GIBSON, PRYOR HOUSE Won DEMOCRAT NC $500 08/25/2004

COBB, BRITT AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER Lost - General Election DEMOCRAT NC
$500 05/03/2004

GIBSON, PRYOR HOUSE Won DEMOCRAT NC $500 02/09/2004

MCCOMAS, DANNY HOUSE Won REPUBLICAN NC $500 10/11/2004

COATES, LORENE T HOUSE Won DEMOCRAT NC $250 04/26/2004

Re: GOP: Drop Beason

Proctor — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:56:37 -0400

You know, I think political science folks, Raleigh newspaper correspondents, maybe even some of those television news editors just take a mid-summer pause and just consider the implications of this Under the Dome item.

And beyond this, take note of an entire series of hostile actions by leading Republicans at the state party level against anyone in either the Republican or the Democratic parties who seek to build occasional (temporary) alliances across party lines to advance legislation, move the state forward, improve education and economic activity, or simply help make state government move more efficiently.

For here is the one aspect of party politics in North Carolina that the press has perhaps overlooked in recent years: the extraordinary enmity one can expect to be stirred with the ranks of some of the Republican Party's leadership against any group or individual--whether Republican, Democratuic or independent in registration--who is willing to leave partisanship aside long enough to hammer out an effective agreement with others who may be of different political affiliations.

It seems that the Democratic Party generally has been willing to tolerate a certain amount of "bipartisan consensus-building" within its own ranks so long as its own members of the Legislature are continuing to work for the overall goals and principles of the Democratic Party. If they can get bipartisan support for a measure before the legislature or for a position on environmental protection, then fine, the Democratic thinking seems to go, as long as they don't use this bipartisan spirit of cooperation to unnecessarily delay, oppose or complicate the goals and strategies of the Democratic Party.

But in the Republican Party here at the state level in North Carolina, there just does not seem to be a parallel position on this aspect of bipartisan "exploration." Win by opposing Democrats outright, some Republican leadership circles seem to be saying, and if and when you have a majority, then let the Democrats support your position on issues if it suits them, but don't worry about building even temporary alliances with the other party on the major issues of the day. Meanwhile, if Republicans remain in the minority in the General Assembly, then it seems they are urged, perhaps even pressured, not to take the very first step toward bipartisan accord with the Democratic members.

If this premise is sound and this analysis is true, then it follows that the press may perhaps have place too much emphasis on "what the controlling Democrats may do" on various issues while giving too little attention to the outlook of the Republican leadership in North Carolina even when it is in a minority position in the Legislature.

This would explain a lot of things which still could use some 'splaining in the topsy-turvy world of Tar Heel politics.

David McKnight--Durham

Re: GOP: Drop Beason

Senate — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:17:09 -0400

So he's not really a Republican. Perhaps he "had" strong Republican ties when they were in power. Now he seems to have strong democrat ties - Basnight and Black.

Re: GOP: Drop Beason

GrayJ — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:50:30 -0400

Why wouldn't the party want to distance themselves away from him if he is corrupt?