Basnight: Illness won't affect job
Senate leader plans to stay in legislature
RALEIGH (Winston-Salem Journal) - N.C. Senate leader Marc Basnight said he has no plans to leave the legislature despite learning that he has a rare degenerative nerve disease that affects his coordination but not his cognitive abilities.
Doctors said that Basnight, in a record ninth two-year term as Senate president pro tem, is suffering from a disorder that slowly destroys nerve cells that control balance, walking and speaking.
It will be 10 to 20 years before the disorder disables him, one of his doctors told the Raleigh News & Observer. In the meantime, Basnight, 62, D-Dare County, can still perform his work as chamber leader.
Basnight's doctors don't know what caused the illness, which has no name.
RALEIGH (Winston-Salem Journal) - N.C. Senate leader Marc Basnight said he has no plans to leave the legislature despite learning that he has a rare degenerative nerve disease that affects his coordination but not his cognitive abilities.
Doctors said that Basnight, in a record ninth two-year term as Senate president pro tem, is suffering from a disorder that slowly destroys nerve cells that control balance, walking and speaking.
It will be 10 to 20 years before the disorder disables him, one of his doctors told the Raleigh News & Observer. In the meantime, Basnight, 62, D-Dare County, can still perform his work as chamber leader.
Basnight's doctors don't know what caused the illness, which has no name.
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