N&O: "State Rep. Russell Capps of Raleigh will be getting a most unusual Democratic challenger next year -- the president of the Wake County Republican Mens Club.

"Chris Mintz, a Raleigh financial planner, is not only resigning as club president, but is changing his registration to Democrat."

Says Mintz's former vice-chairman, Frank Williams, "I now know how Obi Wan Kenobi must have felt when his promising Jedi apprentice (Anakin Skywalker) joined the dark side, betrayed those who trusted him and became the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader."

Comments

[Lance McCord]

Williams is clearly a little nutty with the Star Wars analogies, but he raises a fair question: where does Mintz stand on social issues? If Mintz was the ardent social conservative Williams believed him to be, what's he doing in the Dem party now?

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Chris the "Chameleon" Mintz

www.whoischrismintz.com