LATEST SURVEY INDICATES
Redwine, Soles Ranked Near Top In Effecti
veness Ratings
Brunswick County's current rep
resentatives in the North Carolina
General Assembly both rank in the
top 15 percent of their respective
chambcr in terms of effectiveness,
according to results of the latest sur
vey the North Carolina Center for
Public Policy Research of Raleigh.
Rep. E. David Redwine of Ocean
Isle Beach moved up a notch, from
18th to 17th, while Sen. R.C. Soles
J?* nf 'T??ly\r rr\Cfr fmm "7th In
5lih."
Redwine was named to complete
the unexpired term of Rep. Tom B.
Rabon Jr. in 1983 and then electcd
in November 1984 to office in his
own right He has steadily moved up
in the ratings in each Center survey
sincc 1985, when he was ranked as
44th in effectiveness of the 120
members of the House.
Details' of Soles' ranking were
not available.
He was ranked
as 25th most cf- f
fcctivc of the ?
Senate's 50 fINy * V*
members in a tic
in 1979, moving y W
up to 1 7th by
1983. Alter be- Mk
ing implicated
and then cleared
in the Colcor in- SOLES
vestigation of corruption in Colum
bus County, his ranking dropped to
10th in 1985 and 1987, and then
rose to l lth in !987.
In this year's rankings, Rcdwinc
was given a raw
score of 67.9 by
lobbyists. 62.6
by fellow legis
lators and 60.6
by the news cor
respon de n ts
who routinely
cover the legis
lature, for an
overall <a-nrc of
go -j REDWINK
"I was pleased," he said, speaking
from his car phone Tuesday.
Johnathan L. Rhyne Jr. (R-Lin
coln), the top-ranked Republican in
the House, and Marie W. Colton (D
Buncombe), the second -highest rank
woman in the House, were tied in
14th position, followed by John 11.
Kerr II (D-Waync), a fast-rising
newcomer, in 16th. Kerr moved
from the 62nd spot in 1987 to 16th
in the latest survey.
According to the Center, the
General Assembly is losing more of
its most effective members af ter the
1991-92 session than at any other
time in the last 15 years. How that
will affect the legislative careers of
Rcdwine and Soles isn't clear.
Based on the center's latest effec
tiveness rankings released this week,
three of the 10 most effective sena
tors ? Hcnson P. Barnes (D- Wayne),
Kcnncth'C. Royall Jr. (D-Durham)
and William D. Goldston (D-Rock
ingham) are retiring from the leg
CALLERS GOT NEW MESSAGE
Cut Disrupted Phone Service
Long distance telephone service
was temporarily interrupted Tuesday
morning, the result of another acci
dental cut of an underground fiber
optic cable.
But this time customers had a bet
ter idea of what was going on as a
result of an effort by the local tele
phone co-op.
Roycc Angel, district manager
with Southern Bell, said a contractor
digging beside U.S. 17 in northern
Brunswick County cut the cable.
AUantic Telephone Membership
Corporation (ATMC) customers lost
long distance service (including
WATS) to Wilmington and other ar
eas for several hours.
Ange! said he didn't know when
long distance service was knocked
out or where the cable was cut.
Service was fully restored by 2:26
p.m.
Russell D. Price, ATMC general
manager, said he understood the cut
occurred to the north of the railroad
ovcipass on U.S. 17 near Lanvale
Road.
Following up on a suggestion
made by a customer following a re
ccni cul in ATMC's own cablc, he
said ATMC recorded a message re
ceived by its customers when trying
to dial long-distance.
Instead of a dead line or a mes
sage that all circuits were busy, cus
tomers were advised of where the
cut was located and the approximate
time Southern Bell expected to re
store servicc.
"It's the first time we've done
that," said Price. "We hope it is go
ing to be helpful."
The day of the last major cut,
ATMC's switchboard operator han
dled !,244 calls, he said "And those
were just the ones that got through."
Price said the possibility of addi
> innoj iritcnrup* sens in scrvicc \vs!5
continue at a higher than usual level
for now.
"As long as we have the amount
of construction we've got going on
in this corridor, more lines are likely
to be cut," he said. "But we are pa
trolling our lines to try to protect the
circuits in our territory. If we
weren't doing that, we think it's
likely we would have had additional
problems."
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islalure.
Also, four of the 10 most effec
tive members of the House of
Representatives? Dennis A. Wicker
(D-Lcc), Harry E. Payne Jr. (D-Ncw
Hanover), H.M. "Mickey" Michaux
Jr. (D-Durham) and R. Samuel Hunt
111 (D- Alamance) arc cither retiring
or leaving to run for other state of
fices.
Turnover in the General Assem
bly will be hither than usual next
year, as more than a fifth of the leg
islature won't be back next session
regardless of the outcome of elec
tions in November.
Eleven of 50 senators did not file
for re-election to the Senate and 28
of 120 representatives chose not to
seek return to the House.
"The legislature is going to see a
real change in membership during
the next session," said Ran Coble,
the center's executive director.
"With so many high-ranking legisla
tors already leaving ? plus the turn
over to comc from those who don't
win re-election ? there will be plenty
of opportunities for new people to
move into leadership positions. My
guess is that the Senate will change
the most in 1993."
Coble said the reasons for the
turnover vary in the two chambers.
In the Senate, he says, the "Old
Guard is retiring and giving way to
the Young Turks" while in the
House many of those leaving have
ambitions for higher office.
The Center's rankings are based
on surveys completed by the legisla
tors themselves, by registered lobby
ists who regularly work in the
General Assembly and who arc
based in North Carolina, and by the
capital news correspondents who
cover the legislature every day.
They were asked to rate each leg
islator's effectiveness on the basis of
participation in committee work,
skill at guiding bills through flix>r
debate and general knowledge or ex
pertise in special fields. They were
also asked to consider the respect
the legislators command from their
peers, the political power they hold
and their ability to sway the opin
ions of other legislators.
The latest ratings are the result of
the Center's eighth comprehensive
survey.
Longevity tends to be a key factor
in obtaining a high ranking, whether
Democrat or Republican.
The survey supplements the Cen
ter's guide to the 1991-92 legislature.
The N.C. Center for Public Policy
Research is an independent, nonpar
tisan, nonprofit corporation created
to study public policy issues facing
North Carolina and to evaluate slate
government programs.
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