SETH EFFRON: How Basnight ushered in new era of legislative clout :: WRAL.com
Posted December 30, 2020 5:00 a.m. EST EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is by Seth Effron, opinion editor for Capitol Broadcasting Company. He's reported on North Carolina government and politics since 1985. To the degree that Republican Sen. Phil Berger has emerged as a very influential and powerful public officeholder in North Carolina, he has Democrat Marc Basnight who died Monday, to thank. Basnight -- the largely self-educated rural legislator with the "high-tider" accent -- reshaped the North Carolina Senate at the end of the 20th century by transforming the largely c...
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