Gov. Bob Scott: No lawyers on my staff

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Fred Morrison, former legal counsel to the late Gov. Bob Scott and now an Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Administrative Hearings in Raleigh, saw a Friday blog where I noted that Scott loved to ribs folks. He also liked to kid Morrison, who has been a lawyer for a long time as well as a faithful family friend.

Morrison wrote Saturday morning in an e-mail, "In his campaign for governor in 1968, he promised that he would have no lawyers on his staff -- which is the reason he gave later justifying hiring me!"