Saturday, January 24, 2009

Gov. Bob Scott: No lawyers on my staff

Fred Morrison, former legal counsel to the late Gov. Bob Scott and now an Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Administrative Hearings in Raleigh, saw a Friday blog where I noted that Scott loved to ribs folks. He also liked to kid Morrison, who has been a lawyer for a long time as well as a faithful family friend.

Morrison wrote Saturday morning in an e-mail, "In his campaign for governor in 1968, he promised that he would have no lawyers on his staff -- which is the reason he gave later justifying hiring me!"