Posted December 30, 2020 5:00 a.m. EST
EDITOR S NOTE: This column is by Seth Effron, opinion editor for Capitol Broadcasting Company. He s reported on North Carolina government and politics since 1985.
To the degree that Republican Sen. Phil Berger has emerged as a very influential and powerful public officeholder in North Carolina, he has Democrat Marc Basnight who died Monday, to thank. Basnight the largely self-educated rural legislator with the high-tider accent reshaped the North Carolina Senate at the end of the 20th century by transforming the largely ceremonial office of Senate President Pro Tempore into a power center that he held for 16 years.
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