Curb Your Incredulity — In last week’s column, I wrote about the dustup between New Hanover County school board members Pat Bradford and David Perry. As we had reported earlier, Perry had texted Bradford and essentially offered to trade votes: Perry wanted a committee he’d spearheaded to become permanent and hoped to get Bradford’s support in exchange for his backing of an agreement with LifeWise, a controversial program that offers Bible instruction during school hours, for which Perry assumed Bradford wanted to whip votes.
Bradford texted back that she was “shocked” by Perry’s offer.
I wrote that I found it very hard to believe Bradford, who is well-schooled in politics from both her time on the dais and behind an editorial desk, was actually shocked – comparing her, perhaps too snarkily, to Casablanca’s infamously insincere Captain Renault…