"I don't think creating controversy around yourself on issues not necessarily important to the majority of your constituency is being an effective politician," said Jim Lea, former chairman of the New Hanover County Democratic Party. "The controversy (s)he created over the years may unfortunately outweigh the good (s)he's done."
Jim Lea is Senator Boseman's attorney. The quote comes from his comments regarding the announced retirement of Senator Jesse Helms in 2001. If you took the above quote and applied it to Sen. Boseman you might begin to hear what we have been hearing this past couple of weeks, that there is a push by the local democrats to get Boseman to step down. Apparently the Dixie Democrats are not happy about the possibility of having the senator on the ballot which just might cause voters, particularly if the African-American voters are going to split the ticket, to screw up the elections for other marginal candidates. They feel they can win the senate seat and keep everything in tact with little effort by simply replacing Boseman with Mayor Bill Saffo before August.
All this makes you wonder exactly who is it that wants Julia Boseman to stay? Well besides all the out-of-state kooks. I mean really, who?
