Gov. Mike Easley has to catch up on some summer reading.
Just, say, a few hundred bills. The governor plans to read each piece of legislation the General Assembly sent him before deciding whether to sign it into law, spokesman Seth Effron said.
That included the new 298-page state budget, Matthew Eisley reports.
"He reads the whoooooole thing," Effron said.
And apparently Easley pays close attention, reading like a would-be editor.
"If he had a line-item veto," Effron said, "we'd be here a long time."
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