Monks leaves party helm
BY BRIANNE DOPART : The Herald-Sun, March 3, 2007 : 11:22 pm ET -excerpts-
Steve Monks is sorry.
The former chairman of the Durham County Republican Party, who is best known for his unsuccessful write-in candidacy against District Attorney Mike Nifong, had planned to do a lot of explaining in his farewell address to the committee at the county convention Saturday. ......
Regarding his ill-fated run for district attorney, Monks rehashed his decision to make himself a write-in candidate, saying he met with "some powerful Democrats" who told him to pull out of the race, and saying he didn't take "getting pushed around, bribed or threatened by Democrats lightly.
Monks did not name names.**
As a result, he said, "the powerful Democrats who ran this community for so long were ... taught a lesson: Don't take Republicans for granted."
Floyd McKissick, chairman of the Durham County Democratic Party, said he'd never heard of such a conversation and wasn't aware that anything along the lines of what Monks described had occurred. Regarding the district attorney race, McKissick reiterated what he told The Herald-Sun last week, saying the issue of who played what role in Nifong's election was a moot point.
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** Wish someone would name some names...this town acts like the old Soviet Union. Everything's secret.