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An adviser to Fred Smith says they're just doing what they should.

Political adviser Karen Rotterman pointed out that Pat McCrory's new campaign manager even offered a line of attack back in December.

In a Dec. 6, 2007, article about the so-called "Charlotte curse," the Charlotte Observer quoted Hawke saying the trouble with Queen City mayors is not their ZIP code:

Voters don't see a curse as much as they sometimes see a Charlotte attitude, Hawke said. He highlighted McCrory's recent comments in the Observer that one attraction of being governor was that he might better aid Charlotte from that office. That's the sort of thing the opposition in the Republican primary will club him with, Hawke said. 

In an e-mail to Dome, Rotterman, who worked with Hawke on Jim Martin's campaign, pointed out the article.

"Short-term memory loss old buddy?" she wrote.