North Carolina House gives UNC slots to donors to House Speaker | WashingtonExaminer.com

North Carolina House gives UNC slots to donors to House Speaker | WashingtonExaminer.com

The state House of Representatives in North Carolina gets to appoint people to the UNC Board of Governors. Three recent appointees just happen to be major donors to the SuperPAC of the state’s Speaker of the House, Thom Tillis, a Republican.

The Charlotte Observer reports:

A super PAC for House Speaker Thom Tillis recently raised $105,000 from five donors for his U.S. Senate race, including $70,000 from three men the House appointed to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors….

R. Doyle Parrish, a Raleigh hotel and restaurant owner, was the only registered Democrat whom the House appointed to the UNC board. Parrish, who is also on the super PAC board, gave $20,000, according to federal campaign finance reports made public this week.

Honoring the Recovery of NC’s Bill of Rights

The North Carolina House of Representatives met last Monday in special session in the Old House Chamber at the State Capitol to honor the 10th anniversary of an FBI sting operation that returned North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights. During the special session, the House adopted House Resolution 286, introduced by Representatives Paul Stam, Deborah Ross, Duane Hall, and Josh Dobson.


The resolution tells the 1789 story of President George Washington sending every state an original copy of the Bill of Rights for ratification. In 1865, North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights was stolen by a Union soldier during the occupation of Raleigh. Over the next 140 years, there were numerous attempts to sell this stolen copy back to North Carolina, but the State refused to buy back what rightfully belonged to its citizens. On March 18, 2003, the document was seized by federal authorities in Philadelphia. Finally in 2008, the document was turned over to the State of North Carolina after 5 years of litigation and 143 years of being out of the custody of the state.

The document was displayed in the Legislative Building on Tuesday afternoon after being escorted by Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest. The document was also accompanied by a group of Richards Elementary School students from Onslow County on Monday.   From the "Raleigh Update" Week of March 18, 2013 Newsletter from NC House District 93 Representative Jonathan C. Jordan His email is:  Jonathan.Jordan@ncleg.net