More on Beason and the press

I don't make a habit of relying on NC Spin for much of anything, but they are one of the few who seemed to have covered the Beason angle on the story I mentioned here. This is from 2004.

More than ten months have now passed into history, since formal complaints were lodged with The North Carolina General Assembly Joint Committee on Ethics, in specific reference to the deliberate sabotage of North Carolina House bill # 65 in the North Carolina State Senate. This bill is specific to the exemption of autopsy photographs from the unrestricted access of the news media and the general public in the state of North Carolina. This legislation is a public bill in the legislature of North Carolina and as all others, this bill was supposed to follow a criteria established in the rules of each body of The North Carolina General Assembly, in the processing of this legislation through the numerous steps that all public bills are required to undergo in that legislative institution. This bill, just as was the case with North Carolina House bill # 631 in 2001, did not meet with the approval of The North Carolina Press Association, however.

Corrupted values and Constitutional alibis were carefully constructed by The North Carolina Press Association in its adamant zeal to defeat this legislation. A marriage of convenience between the top leadership in The North Carolina State Senate and the major news media in that state, was joined in deliberate haste, that, in the end, ensured to the news media, that a public bill was not handled in the order of its just and do process, thereby, granting victory to the media, at the sacrifice of "We the People," in this most fundamental of privacy rights concerns.

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A registered lobbyist by the name of Don Beason is highly involved in the secrecy and manipulation that had to have structured beforehand, which would absolutely assure that the full Senate present and voting, would have no chance of any kind to vote on this legislation in 2003.

As I said, I don't put much stock in a lot of what NC Spin has to say, but when they're fingering a big-time Republican mover and shaker, well, it's worth taking notice. The article also lays into the entire leadership of the Senate on the issue as well.

I'm starting to get the impression that Beason is not so much a Republican as he is a free-agent operative who walks whatever side of the street is necessary to do what his clients are paying him to do.