Lawyers for state Treasurer Richard Moore have called for a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a group representing state workers.
In a motion filed in Wake County Superior Court, Raleigh attorney Kieran Shanahan claims that an attorney for the State Employees Association of North Carolina offered to drop a public records lawsuit in exchange for Moore's support for a bill.
The legislation, House Bill 2758, would give a board of trustees control over the state employee's pension fund instead of the state treasurer. Moore, who leaves office in January, opposed a similar bill in the past.
In the motion, Shanahan claims that on June 9 SEANC attorney Tom Harris said in a phone call and a subsequent e-mail that the group would settle the lawsuit if Moore would send a letter to every state legislator urging them to pass the bill, ask House Speaker Joe Hackney to schedule a vote and tesitfy in favor of the bill, among other things.
"Clearly, Plaintiff and its counsel Tom Harris have attempted to engage in a explicit quid pro quo arrangement," Shanahan wrote in the motion, arguing that amounts to bribery of a public official.
The motion will be heard in an emergency hearing this morning.
SEANC filed the lawsuit against Moore in late January, charging that the state treasurer had failed to turn over public records it sought. Moore, then running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, countered that the suit politically motivated.
Hat tip: Mark Johnson
Blog RSS feed
Worker or Management?
How about worker and management? Is it possible to straddle both sides of the line?
Well, it appears Wayne Goodwin is trying to do so. Goodwin, who is the Democratic nominee for Insurance Commissioner, recently joined as a member of SEIU Local 2008 (formerly SEANC) according to The Insider.
If he's elected, whose side will he be on? You can't be "the boss" and be a rank-and-file union member, those two things are opposites. It's like saying you're a Duke and a Carolina fan.
Of course, this is a common question when it comes to public employee labor unions, is where does the division of labor fall? Who is management and who isn't? Who negotiates against who? Apparently Goodwin thinks he can be everything to everybody.
Or he's just doing it for political expediency... Nah, that couldn't be the case, could it?
______________________
Submited by : Descargar Libros