Posted on 02/03/2010 8:29:55 PM PST by Constitution Day
Former Gov. Mike Easley sometimes used a secret e-mail account to conduct state business, according to a longtime staffer who testified as part of a public records lawsuit.
By law, e-mails about public business are supposed to be public record. Several media outlets sued in 2008 over access to e-mails to and from Easley's office after some state workers claimed that staffers were told to routinely delete sensitive e-mail...
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NC ping, please!
In her deposition in the lawsuit, Sherri Johnson, who served as Easley's communications director, told media attorneys that the former governor used a private e-mail account to conduct some state business and that only a few top staffers could access it.Johnson testified that Easley's e-mail account was under the name "Nick Danger" spelled backwards.
Nick Danger was a detective character created by a 1970s comedy troupe. Johnson said it was spelled backwards because of Easley's dyslexia.
what party affiliation?
As if you had to ask! Democrat, of course.
These popped into my head:
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:404957
Meh.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/page/5191300/
Great find! A dyslexic governor? Re-check those budget numbers and travel expense reports.
With the amount of RAT corruption in this state, Sleazley going down should assure that another Democrat doesn't get elected to public office in NC for the next 50 years.
Sadly I don't think it will matter to most brain dead voters.
| Johnson said it was spelled backwards because of Easley's dyslexia.
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Interesting! Thanks for the inside info, I am not familiar with the Nick Danger bits.
Can’t wait for Tax-Hike Mike to go to the big house.
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Nonsense. On one of the comedy records (I think "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers") Nick reads his own name backwards from the lettering on his (glass windowed) office door. Saying the name backwards is part of the cult shtick.