The saga involving Wake County school board members Debra Goldman and Chris Malone has been a frequent topic this week on the Talking ABout Politics blog maintained by longtime North Carolina political consultants Gary Pearce and Carter Wrenn.

In a post today, Pearce, a Democrat, points to all the times Goldman and her family have contacted Cary police to write that "the police may need to build a substation at her office" if Goldman is elected state auditor.

"Goldman ought to step down and let somebody else take her place," Pearce writes. "And all of us should agree that she has no business holding an important state office."

How much political fallout will there be over the publicity about Wake County school board member Debra Goldman naming board member Chris Malone as a suspect in a burglary she reported in 2010 and the conflicting statements they gave about their relationship?

As noted in today's article, the two face consequences in how it will affect their campaigns for state office. They also face consequences about how the controversy will affect them on the school board, especially if they don't win their elections next month.

As Andy Taylor, an N.C. State University political professor noted, people aren't talking now about the firing of Superintendent Tony Tata.

Art Pope is denying being the architect of the new Wake County school board majority and Thomas Farr is saying he advised against sending out controversial postcards in the 1990 U.S. Senate campaign.

As noted in today's article, Pope said "to say I was the architect was overstated.” He's referring to an Oct. 7 e-mail message from Wake GOP finance chair Marc Scruggs in which he tells school board member Ron Margiotta that they followed Pope's plan in the election.

Pope says he raised money for the school board candidates and gave advice to Wake GOP Chairman Claude Pope, his distant cousin. But he says that was all he did during the campaign.