Easley,Basnight Manipulate Golden LEAF,Papers Show

Carolina Journal ^ | October 30, 2002 | By PAUL CHESSER

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State leaders have sway over foundation’s grants and investment decisions

RALEIGH — The Golden LEAF Foundation, which administers half of North Carolina’s share of the national tobacco settlement, claims to operate independent of political persuasion. But documents obtained by Carolina Journal suggest that Gov. Mike Easley and N.C. Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight wield significant influence over the nonprofit foundation.

The centerpiece of their involvement — a recent $85.4 million Golden LEAF proposal to invest in biotechnology initiatives in North Carolina — was part of a larger plan by state Democrats seeking to campaign on a platform of creating jobs in the midst of the state’s troubled economy.

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Geesh, Weasly Can't win an election on his true merits, huh? well guys, it been fun here on FR. I will miss you all. Going to have to go back to occassional lurking. The elections is just days away Get Out The Vote. (I will pray alot on that day.) My work is starting to get hectic again. As we approach the Holiday season it will get increasingly worse. Our projections show no sign of slowdown until february. Even then it will be only temporary. So I wont have much time to post or browse. So for now I wish you all well, Happy Holidays. Until sometime next year. Well I had better go now.

Thanks to all

FRgards

MC

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work is good :o)

hopefully, you're addicted enough to FR to at least drop in on occasion. let's hope we take back the senate next week.

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