Bob’s Big Boy breaks the news: This is NC House Speaker Groupsex Biscuitville’s final rodeo.
Once again, it’s confirmed that weasels DO look out for each other. State Rep. 
Jason Saine — former Shoney’s spokesmodel and the speaker’s best-dressed henchman — spilled the beans on what everyone has been assuming for some time:
House Speaker Tim Moore does not plan to run again for his leadership position in the House. Rep. Jason Saine told The News & Observer Friday morning that Moore made that announcement to the House GOP Caucus. Saine’s statement came as part of an interview about allegations aired in a lawsuit that accused Moore of breaking up a local elected official’s marriage by trading sex for political gain.
Even before both sides of the lawsuit said it had been “resolved,” Saine said the caucus hadn’t been too concerned about the suit because they knew Moore wouldn’t be speaker again. He said there’s been little discussion of it. “You know, the speaker has announced this is his last time seeking to run for speaker,” Saine said, “so I don’t think anybody’s sitting here going, ‘Well, you know, keeping him around is going to be all that problematic,’ because we know he’s leaving.”[…]
Riiiiiiiiiiight. *I’m sure it had nothing to do with reports that some members of the media have found more than a dozen other women alleging a quid-pro-quo sex-for-political-gain arrangement with Speaker Timmy and possibly other House leaders.* (Scott Lassiter, the plaintiff in the aforementioned “resolved” lawsuit made similar allegations regarding the speaker and his estranged (ex?) wife Jamie Liles Lassiter.)
Saine and the rest of leadership need to explain this logic to Reps. Kidwell and McNeely. Both of them got publicly run out of House leadership merely for offering comments that offended Democrats. Neither of them, as far as we know, embarrassed themselves or their caucus by getting entangled in a very public and quite sordid alienation-of-affection suit.
Within the last few weeks, a PAC affiliated with speaker Timmy had been sending out mailers in his district touting the, um, performance of their guy — leading many to think an extended stay in Raleigh or a campaign for Congress were still in the works.
It doesn’t say much for the GOP caucus or its leadership to dismiss the stories about the speaker because the suit was “resolved.” Their supreme leader sullied the reputation of the House, its Republican members AND the state GOP. His response to the Lassiter complaint — personal attacks on Scott Lassiter and a threat of a countersuit — was low-class at best.
Timmy’s story seemed to change by the hour. Timmy went from declaring the allegations unfounded to admitting a relationship spanning roughly three years.
The suit settlement was done with a whole lot of confidentiality, but its circumstances seem to 
indicate that the Lassiter complaint had some credibility to it.
How does the GOP caucus move forward through this session with this stink still hanging around the speaker’s office? How do you run for reelection with Speaker Timmy still hanging around as your poster-boy / mascot? He’s reportedly not coming back, but apparently plenty of you ARE planning to.
Glad Speaker Moore is not running for Speaker in ‘25. I’m hopeful he won’t be in the legislature either. If the GOP wants to remain the majority on Jones they must get rid of the pretenders. Moore is a start.
And some of the pretenders are better at pretending than others. Take Franklin County’s very own Matt Winslow for example. He’s kept his head down, and has been very stealthy with his ambitions for Speaker, or failing that, House Majority leader. But he voted for Medicaid expansion, voted for giving BB/BS every corrupt thing that they asked for, and totally ignores Youngsville’s cries for legislation to halt runaway growth in southwestern Franklin county. He may think he’s safe in an R+9 district but he could get a rude surprise next year by ignoring Republican voters.
Sounds like somebody who needs a primary, and there are a LOT of those in “Republican” ranks of the General Assembly. Y’all need to find someone to take a lib like that out in the primary.
The Speaker should’ve already stepped down. The “Caucus” not calling for this is troubling at least. It appears slime is acceptable in Raleigh.
Moore’s whole leadership team is rotten to the core and badly needs to be replaced – Bell, Saine, and the rest of them. Not only have they condoned sleazy corruption by allowing Moore to remain Speaker and circled the wagons around him, but they have backed Moore on a series of leftwing policy surrenders to the liberal special interests, Republicans need a change in Raleigh and the whole Tim Moore circus needs to go. And, sadly, the state Senate is just as bad, if not worse. We need some REAL Republican leaders to come to the fore in both the House and Senate, not a continuation of the prostitutes for the special interests having control.
If you are a Legislator, Tim Moore wields his great power over them from day one. If you are not on the Moore side, your work is doomed. Your Bills will not be heard. Some of our most conservative legislators have been plagued by his antics. Millis. Speciale. Boswell. Pittman. Moore is all about Moore. He is not Conservative and neither is his Crew of Misfits. Be very suspicious of the Silence. I can GUARANTEE there is a plan already in motion.
Whether it is DC or Raleigh, leadership is too powerful vis-a-viz individual legislators. When a new Speaker is selected, the best for all would be a avoid a Republican version of Liston Ramsey. We need a Republican version of Speaker Joe Mavretic instead.
Speaker Hassert in Congress would be a good role model for what North Carolina needs, and Speaker Boehner an example of what should be avoided..