Rep. Harold Brubaker remembers things differently.

On the stand yesterday, former Speaker Jim Black told a damning story about the Randolph County Republican's time as speaker in 1997.

According to Black, Brubaker wooed then Rep. Robert Brawley Jr., an Iredell County Republican. Black said that Brawley wanted a $300,000 contribution to his children's trust fund.

But Brubaker told the Greensboro News & Record that wasn't the case:

"First of all, I don't do that. That's something I've never been involved in,'' Brubaker said during an interview at his legislative office. "I was shocked when I heard about that."

Brawley, meantime, had his own version of events. 

More after the jump.

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Former House Speaker Jim Black testified in state court this morning about another possible political deal.

The events in question took place in 1997, according to Black, and involved then-Rep. Robert Brawley, an Iredlell County Republican, Rep. Harold Brubaker, a Randolph County Republican, and Black, a Mecklenburg County Democrat.

According to Black's testimony, Brawley had agreed to cross party lines and support Black for speaker. But Black said Brawley told him about being approached by Brubaker to come back into the GOP fold.

Black said Brawley told him that Brubaker asked what it would take to get his vote back, and that Brawley told Brubaker he wanted $300,000 in a trust fund for his children.

Black said Brubaker told Brawley he would get back to him about it. And that's where Black's testimony on the issue ended.

Neither Brubaker nor Brawley could be immediately reached for comment this morning.