I’ve got to – for once – agree with Gary. The most feared name in Democratic politics today is Joe Sinsheimer.

There’s no substitute for good research and Mr. Sinsheimer’s carving out a niche all his own. His particular bone of contention is corruption. How effective is he? Ask Jim Black, Rep. Thomas Wright and Rep. Mary McAllister. All are involved in scandals Sinsheimer’s exposed. He’s a one-man clean-up government crusade. And he’s struck again. Filing a new complaint with the State Board of Elections.

A few years ago, South Carolina banned video poker which left thousands of video poker machines looking for a new home in North Carolina. Not much later the North Carolina Amusement Machine Association (translation: The Association of Video Poker Operators) gave $30,000 to a national Democratic political committee (the DLCC) led by none other than Jim Black. (The donation came within weeks of video poker lobbyist Don Beason’s $500,000 loan to Black.)

Sinsheimer’s question is simple. Why would North Carolina video poker operators spend $30,000 to elect Democrats in other states?

His answer is they didn’t. That the national Democratic committee “washed” the corporate contribution and the money ended up in Jim Black’s campaign and the House Democratic Caucus.

One more fact from Mr. Sinsheimer: Around the same time a bill was introduced in the State Senate to ban video poker here. It passed in the Senate then died in the House.

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