U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole has announced her county coordinators.

The Salisbury Republican's 100 grassroots coordinators will organize neighborhood walks, hand out campaign literature and set up yard signs for her campaign.

"Senator Dole has traveled to all 100 counties in North Carolina at least twice," said campaign manager Marty Ryall in a statement.

The list includes Republican state Reps. John Blust of Greensboro and Laura Wiley of High Point; Phil Berger, Jr., son of the state Senate minority leader; and Yancey County Sheriff Kermit Banks.

Wake County's coordinators are LaRinda Huntley-Kaplan, Suzan Maddox and Laura Neely; Mecklenburg's is Linda Jones; and Guilford's are Blust, Wiley, Dena Barnes and Kumar Lakhavani.

A full list after the jump.

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House Speaker Joe Hackney has appointed the six-member committee that will look into allegations against Rep. Thomas Wright.

According to an announcement from Hackney's office, the committee will have the same House members as the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee, which is also looking into Wright.

The two committees are needed because of the nature of the allegations and the relevant laws in place at the time. (For more on that, visit the Tavern.)

Rep. Rick Glazier will chair the committee and House Minority Leader Paul Stam will be vice chair.

The other members are: Reps. Marvin Lucas, Bill McGee, Edith Warren and Laura Wiley.

Glazier, Lucas and Warren are Democrats; Stam, McGee, and Wiley are Republicans.

Twenty-four legislators did not get paid for every day.

According to state records, 17 representatives and seven senators asked not to receive their $104 per diems for at least one day during the 2007 session.

Reps. Angela Bryant, William Current, Annie Mobley, Deborah Ross, John Blust, Bill Daughtridge, Laura Wiley, Ruth Samuelson, Pryor Gibson, David Lewis, Mitchell Setzer, Paul Stam, Jennifer Weiss, Martha Alexander, Pricey Harrison, Alice Bordsen and Paul Luebke did not receive pay for every day.

Luebke was the lowest, receiving pay for just 178 days.

Sens. William Purcell, Fred Smith, Clark Jenkins, Harris Blake, Tom Apodaca, Janet Cowell and Marc Basnight did not receive pay for all 191 days of session.

Basnight was the lowest, receiving pay for just 176 days.

Under state policy, legislators automatically receive pay for every day of session, regardless of whether they attend, unless they specifically ask not to be paid for that day.