Gurley was asked Thursday at the Wake County Taxpayers Association’s meeting why he hadn’t called on them to help lobby legislators. Gurley answered that Tom Fetzer, the lobbyist hired by the commissioners and the former state GOP chairman, had developed a list of GOP legislators who said they would back the bill and those who said they were opposed or were on the fence. Gurley said Fetzer gave him the list with the goal of converting four to yes votes. “I converted like seven, and we should have won,” Gurley said. But he said those legislators who were listed as supporters ended up voting no. Read more here: newsobserver/2013/08/31/3153869/dome-gurley-says-some-in-house.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 00:33:50 +0000
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