Sen. Mike Ellis (R-WI) Caught on Tape Plotting Potential Felony

Former NC State Rep. Richard Morgan (RINO-Moore County) did roughly the same thing a decade ago, and got away with it.

Morgan is the pseudo-Republican who conspired with the Democrats to block Republican legislation, and to gerrymander the State to keep Democrats in power in 2003, despite Republicans having won a narrow majority in the NC House.

Morgan’s allies created a so-called “527” committee named the NCRMC (NC Republican Mainstreet Committee), which could not legally coordinate its activities with any campaign. But Morgan proved that they were illegally coordinating with him when he told the Winston-Salem Journal what they were going to do before they did it! “We have a Morgan protection plan in place,” said Morgan, while talking about the NCRMC. “I plan to support the people who support me.”

The NC State Board of Elections violated a statute which requires them to investigate sworn complaints, when they ignored a sworn complaint about Morgan’s illegal coordination with the supposedly-independent committee, and several other election law violations.

Morgan’s NCRMC was thoroughly corrupt. It accepted a $100,000 bribe from a Virginia tobacco company that needed a bill killed in the NC House, and Morgan obliged them by killing the bill. Most of the NCRMC’s other contributors were from the alcoholic beverage and usury industries. In other words, nearly all its money was sleazy. (Its expenditures were mostly advertising, of course.)

Two of the three officers of that 527 committee were among Morgan’s closest allies in the NC Legislature, and the ads were produced by Morgan’s longtime political consultant, Paul Shumaker.