Posted on 10/30/2009 5:00:34 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
RALEIGH -- After having spent much of his life as the hunter, former Gov. Mike Easley is the prey.
Easley rose in politics as corruption-busting district attorney and a consumer-oriented attorney general, then as an outsider governor who didn't like good ol' boy politics.
That image is a distant memory.
On Monday, Easley's reputation suffered deep damage as the State Board of Elections opened several days of hearings into allegations of election-law violations that occurred during his eight years as governor.
Gone were the stories of Easley as the young drug-busting prosecutor who kept a shotgun next to his bed and a revolver in his glove compartment, and sent his wife and young son to live with out-of-state relatives. Instead, there were allegations that he had a political pal fix up his Raleigh house, charged the cost to his campaign, then pocketed the insurance money.
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Lack of info on party affiliation as per standard journalistic practices.
Not once in the entire story.
Yep. But they do their best to try to paint him as a conservative.
Democrat back room politics are famous in NC. We had thought that the iron rule was broken when we elected Republican Jim Holshouser as governor back in the 70’s. But the Democrats regained rule on the governorship after Republican Jim Martin’s 2 terms. Our Department of Transportation has been rifed with good old boy Democrats. I retired while Mike Easley was governor. I knew things weren’t right while he was governor. Now, my retirement plaque is signed by him and I feel like hiding that plaque, because his signature is on it.
We sure could use Jim Martin!
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