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Fetzer jabs Hackney for speech's 'pothole'

N.C. Republican Party Chairman Tom Fetzer couldn't resist poking fun at a gaffe House Speaker Joe Hackney made while trying to show he is knowledgable about issues related to Charlotte.

Hackney mistakenly referred to Charlotte's incomplete Interstate 485 as "495."

"Despite his selfless attention to Charlotte’s roads, Hackney struck an oratorical pothole when he didn’t know which road he was talking about, and had to be corrected by the audience," Fetzer said. "Speaker Hackney went to Charlotte to demonstrate his awareness of the Queen City’s needs and laid an egg. Let’s hope he didn’t take the wrong road home to Chapel Hill.

"The Speaker should know his roads. And not just the ones that curve sharply to the left,” Fetzer said.

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Re: Fetzer jabs 'pothole'

Submitted by GiggleBox on October 9, 2009 - 4:34pm.

Not that this has anything to do with "curving to the left" but it's my Nieces' 5 year old birthday, so I bought two Fancy Nancy Tea Party Books and sent the other one to the NCGOP.

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Re: Fetzer jabs Hackney for speech's 'pothole'

Submitted by scharrison on October 9, 2009 - 4:23pm.

And in a related story, NC GOP Chairman Tom Fetzer called a press conference to announce that he had called the highway patrol on his cell phone to report Tony Rand's broken left turn signal. Then Fetzer delivered the coup de grâce: "But it really doesn't matter, because we know he's going to turn left most of the time!" ;)

At which point the only reporter in attendance, an intern for the Alamance News, blurted out, "What the #$%&, man! I postponed an interview with an old lady, who thinks someone is moving her furniture around when she's not looking, just so I could listen to this? Thanks."

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