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Morgan and his allies have run ads saying they cut taxes by voting for an increase in the state's child-tax credit and doing away with its marriage-tax penalty.
"It's malarkey," Hood said. "It makes a bill that raised taxes into an apparent tax cut. I find these ads the most odious ... telling a deliberate falsehood based on the assumption that people won't check it out."
(from a Winston-Salem Journal article [or here] quoting John Hood of the non-partisan John Locke Foundation)

Every Republican Senator voted against the Democrat/Morgan redistricting plan, two-thirds of the other Republican House members opposed it, and the NC Republican Party publicly condemned it.  But on 11/25/2003, with Richard Morgan presiding, co-speakers Morgan & Black rammed it through the NC House.  Most Republican legislators were shown the plan scant hours before having to vote on it.  Speaker Morgan permitted no debate and no attempts to amend it.

The Democrat/Morgan coalition budget was a bad deal for North Carolina.  When Tennessee faced a budget shortfall, they used tobacco settlement money to cover it & and keep taxes down.  Not here!  Morgan and the Democrats protected their "Golden Leaf" slush fund, and instead covered the budget gap with $1.02 billion in tax increases (over two years) and accounting slight-of-hand.

In August, 2004, Morgan lied to smear the Republican nominee for governor, and help Democrat Easley get reelected. Republican Patrick Ballantine had run a completely accurate ad which said, "who wants to move jobs here when politicians have raised our taxes three years in a row?" In response, Morgan told this outrageous lie: "We did not raise taxes in 2003, if that's what Ballantine is talking about. The truth ought to be told. It ought to start with Ballantine making his ad factual." In fact, on 6/30/2003 Morgan and the Democrats enacted net tax increases of $390 million for FY 2003-04 and $632.5 million for FY 2004-05.