Nov 18 2009
Martin Nesbitt Becomes Marc Basnight’s New Sock Puppet
Martin Nesbitt isn’t known for toeing the party line. Over nearly three decades in the House and Senate, he has been a loyal lieutenant of some Democratic leaders and a thorn in the side of others.
But in his new job, the Asheville senator will try to keep 30 Senate Democrats speaking with one voice.
The new post is the highest a mountain legislator has risen to since Nesbitt was a top House budget writer in the early 1990s and perhaps since the days of the late House Speaker Liston Ramsey, of Madison County.
In the Senate’s No. 2 job — in recent years, one of the most powerful in the state — Nesbitt will take the lead in deciding what’s on Senate Democrats’ agenda headed into their most important election in a decade.
Is there really going to be a difference? Tony Rand was a bloated, out-of-touch tax-raiser who contributed mightily to the declining livability of N.C.
Martin Nesbitt, based on his voting record, is also a bloated, out-of-touch tax-raiser who contributed mightily to the declining livability of N.C.
Then again, Tony Rand was a corrupt walrus who by all rights ought to have gone to prison for some of the crap he pulled. I suppse I can’t say that about Nesbitt.
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