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  • From: "Common Sense Foundation" <david@common-sense.org>
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  • Subject: Consider This: Sen. Gulley Departs
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:49:39 -0500

Consider This...


SENATOR GULLEY DEPARTS


Precious few progressive voices can be heard in the N.C. Senate these
days. Today, there is one fewer.

Senator Wib Gulley, who has represented a district that includes Durham
County for eleven years, announced today that he is resigning his seat
in the state Senate, effective at the end of this week, to take a job as
the general counsel for the Triangle Transit Authority.

Sen. Gulley championed several issues during his tenure in the General
Assembly, among them campaign finance reform, air quality and other
environmental concerns, transportation improvements (particularly public
transit options), and criminal justice reform.

It was Sen. Gulley who sponsored a bill in 1996 creating open-file
discovery in capital murder cases, calling attention to the unfairness
prevalent in the state's justice system. He also worked to bring some
sanity to structured sentencing laws.

Speculation has already begun to swirl around Sen. Gulley's potential
replacement. Gov. Mike Easley will appoint someone to fill the Senate
seat until the election in November; the appointee will be chosen by
local Democratic party leaders from Sen. Gulley's district.

The N.C. Senate has long been a conservative club in which power is
wielded ruthlessly by a few insiders, with little input allowed from
those who don't play along. Losing a legislator with the experience and
savvy of Sen. Gulley means that someone new will probably have to start
at the bottom of the Senate ladder.

Sen. Gulley was a member of Common Sense and a powerful advocate for
many progressive causes while in office. He will be missed in the halls
of Raleigh.

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  • Consider This: Sen. Gulley Departs, Common Sense Foundation, 03/15/2004

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