Morgan Answers Critics

State House Co-speaker Richard Morgan says the $1 million-plus his critics spent battling a legislative redistricting plan would have been better used helping Republican candidates.

In a letter to GOP activists and fellow legislators, Morgan attached a statement in which he says the Republicans lost seats in the state House because of “failed recruitment and lack of funding by the NCGOP establishment,” not because of the redistricting map.

“I thought it was about time to let the people of North Carolina know the real word about redistricting,” Morgan said in a brief telephone interview Tuesday.

The letter, with the two-page statement, was sent to hundreds of interested people, he said. Recipients include his fellow House members “except the lizards” and most Republican senators “except the nuts.”

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