Posted on 09/11/2009 4:25:40 AM PDT by OBXWanderer
Gov. Mike Easley and his wife, Mary, accepted a $137,000 discount on a coastal waterfront lot they bought in 2005, months after Easley's administration granted environmental permits to the developer of the Carteret County subdivision.
Easley did not report the 25 percent price break from R.A. North Development, on his state ethics disclosure forms; and his closing attorney, the mayor of Beaufort, did not report the discounted price on the deed registered with the county. It was recorded at the original sales price of $549,880.
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Democrat.
I didn’t see a party affiliation so I looked him up and confirmed my suspicions. I’m quite sure if he’d been a Republican it would have been noted in the headline, the first sentence (of every paragraph) and several other times in the story.
Since the article does not mention the political affiliation of the ex-Governor, of course, I will save you the trouble of having to discover for yourself that he is a Democrat.
In North Carolina he was known as Gov Sleazley.
Here is hoping they send him to spend time with former speaker of the house in NC(Jim Black) who is in Federal Pen in Georgia.
In NC you don’t join the mob you join the Democrats.
Good thing he wasn’t having an affair!
This article was actually front page news, above the fold, of this morning’s N&O...you know, being 9/11...
Even better (for him)- good thing he is not guilty of being a Republican!
Otherwise he might have to go to prison for this
So true!
I’m in NC and have been following the work of Sleazley and his wife for years. This is just the tip of the iceberg (this story). I fully expect the bracelets and frog-walk on this one.
“Good thing he wasn’t having an affair!”
No kidding! Or talked dirty on the phone!! Or, or write a controversial essay 20 years ago!!!
Well, it did say he was a Democrat, in the 5th paragraph, separated from his name: “Easley, a Democrat”
Two days ago, in the story about the guy in California who bragged about having sex with a lobbyist (a perfectly legal thing to do, just very morally wrong), they called him “A Republican Lawmaker” in the first sentence, before they even gave us his name.
The Big Easy’s malfeasance can be traced back to the “Don of NC Democrats”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hunt
who successfully lobbied for and obtained a change in the North Carolina Constitution allowing him to serve four terms as Governor.
Except for two terms of Republican Governors, Democrats have ruled North Carolina politics for forty-three (43) straight years!
Folks are disenchanted with the Dem’s rule, but a combination of vote buying, a strong teacher’s lobby (NCAE) and inflating state government employment continually provides a buffer of Dem voters.
NC is Dem city. The budget and corruption problems in NC can be blamed on no one else. But of course we have all these F***ING transplanted yankees who vote for these clowns. And dont forget the My daddy and his daddy were dems so its good for me!! Sheet Fire!!
In other ways they are good folks. We converse at church and the coffee shop, play golf, root for the local HS teams together, but they think the Dems can do no wrong - in politics they wear blinders.
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