Eddie Speas once worked for disgraced Speaker Jim Black.
In 2006, the then-speaker was contesting the contention of an investigator for the State Board of Elections that Black broke campaign laws when he signed over blank checks to another legislator's campaign.
A quick refresher: Black was accused of redistributing campaign donations from optometrists by signing checks with a blank payee line. The checks went to Rep. Michael Decker, who had switched parties to help keep Black in power.
In March of 2006, Black's attorneys hired Speas as part of their argument that there was nothing wrong with the arrangement. Then working as a private attorney, Speas submitted an affidavit.
"Eddie Speas has gone through the law and has determined that none of those things were violations of the law," Black said in an interview with the Winston-Salem Journal.
Decker later pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge, admitting he left the Republican Party and supported Black for speaker in exchange for $50,000 and a legislative job for his son.
Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue named Speas her general counsel Tuesday.
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Re: Black hired Speas in 2006
Speas also pled against the Stephenson decision, on behalf of The State, and Roy Cooper, who apparently has never been in a courtroom throughout his entire tenure as AG.
Stephenson, or rather how the Plaintiff's natural right to examine compliance with that decision, was derailed in Nov. 2003 by Black and Decker and Morgan.
The Pender case, based on the Stephenson precedent, is upon us, as soon will be the Census, again. It's a good thing the Governor has no voice in redistricting matters.