"The governor said Nifong had done a poor job."
Posted on 02/03/2007 4:16:51 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
Gov. Mike Easley said last month that picking Mike Nifong to be Durham's district attorney was the worst appointment of his career, and he said Nifong broke his promise not to run for the office. Easley told law students in New York that Nifong's decision to seek office in last fall's election almost prompted him to consider yanking Nifong from office.
"I almost un-appointed him when he decided to run," Easley said. "I rate that as probably the poorest appointment that I've," the governor trailed off before adding "I've made some good ones."
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Try this out: Senatorial CYA.
He's obviously going to run.
"Isn't this akin to Kerry going on foreign soil and critizing our country? "
I'm no fan of Sleazly but this is a very different situation. Criticizing a corrupt man and attacking your own nation abroad are very different.
" If Fong had never been born another catalyst would have come along a month or three months later and the story would have played out with slight changes in details."
Doubtful. How many similar cases are there in Durham of Dookies getting set up? I can't think of any and they certaintly don't come every few months.
You wrote:
"I think Nifong is finished."
That is the bottom line. Nifong is fast becoming persona non grata.
Whatever the CYA factor, this is big news. I would guess that Easley has an inside view of what the ethics committee knows and what the newly appointed prosecutors are likely to decide. I believe (OK, I hope) that this is a portent of good things to come.
May the same fate await all race baiters, white and black, regardless of their political affiliations!! Such
What is going on in North Carolina? The PETA dog killers were let off the hook yesterday by a judge and jury. You have people down there who are still backing the strippers.
This is not the time to be forgetting your roots.
Duke's problems are even worse than the coming lawsuits. You have to assume that everybody with any thought of attending Duke was watching that 60-Minutes interview with the three families and heard Kevin Finnerty's reply when asked if Colin was coming back to school at Duke, and that no parent in his right mind would send a kid to ANY school in or even near Durham NC at this point. Duke has to take out their own trash, including Brodhead and the gang of 88 super losers who signed that "listening" letter, AND they have to move. That is the sort of town/gown problem which is only resolved by finding a better town.
You forgot to mention Erskine, and probably Edwards, in the 'good ol' boys' network pandering for their plantation vote.
Congressman BillyBob would probably be able to give the best definitive legal answer, but I believe that the Governor could have unappointed the Fong prior to the election. After the election, he would have to removed via other means.
Good old politician. He stuck his finger in the air, and he knows which way the wind is blowing. Oops! Adios Fong!
He certainly could have made this very same statement the day he appointed Roy Cooper, couldn't he?
And they aren't really future ambulance chaser; they're future DONORS.
When Easley leaves office, no way is he going to step away from the trough. He's been hooked up to it way too long; besides, how would his friends ever support themselves if not for Easley's charity?
Nifong was in trouble BEFORE the primary; why didn't Easley speak up then?
This just gives more ammunition to the families, if you ask me.
Does anybody know what is happening with the gang of 88? I hope at least some of them will be let go.
"The governor said Nifong had done a poor job."
I agree. The Governor was wearing political yellow, and people can see it more clearly now. As with most politicians he chose to do nothing rather than to do what was right. Screw him.
What a fun movie!! Pity in real life, the bad guys seldom get to shrivel to dust! Nifong, however, may be a welcome exception.
Well, they have probably established a seniority list. The gang bangers of 88 are probably the first 88 on the list. As the lawsuits come in and are paid out, the gang bangers of 88 are the first to be let go because of "economic realities in these tough times."
Sometimes it takes a 2 X 4 to get the attention of a mule. Unfortunately, the Governor and his Democrat-ick buddies didn't use it soon enough on Donkey Fong.
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