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Jim Hastings, prominent local Republican operative, had his license tag office in Boone shut down by the D.O.T. for financial "irregularities." Hastings told the Watauga Democrat the closing was "politically motivated," which means, we reckon, that Democrats made up all this crap to make him look bad.

When Hastings was charged with income tax evasion in 1995, he said the charges were "politically motivated." Damn Democrats.

Hastings later pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts of tax evasion and was sentenced to three years' probation and was fined $20,000, court records show.

We believe that Mr. Hastings' habit of blaming Democrats might go under the general heading of Madame Virginia Foxx's favorite subject ... accountability.