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Re: Auditor: Moore, Perdue used state resources

CarltonH — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:48:48 -0500

Wow, corruption among the Democratic controlled government in NC. Who would've thought such a thing?

Re: Auditor: Moore, Perdue used state resources

flwilliams1970 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:42:30 -0500

RTB, For a minute I thought you were going to say you were "hacked." :-)

Re: Auditor: Moore, Perdue used state resources

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:19:59 -0500

Dome would like to publicly acknowledge that we misspelled governor in an earlier version of this post. The campaigns of Beverly Perdue and Pat McCrory may commence to cackling.

— RTB

Re: Auditor: Moore, Perdue used state resources

liam — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:52:20 -0500

Nice guys, this worked out smashingly.

Why is this an issue? It's because both of these campaigns raised such a stink about each other's activities in a desperate attempt to bring the other one down a quarter-inch. Now, they've both ended up with egg on their faces and Les Merritt gets to look like the adult in the room and say things like "as the independent State Auditor I have a statutory obligation..."

It's like a murder-suicide pact with these Democrats. God help us if Pat McCrorkey ever learns to spell. He'll take either wounded Dem to town.

Auditor: Moore, Perdue used state resources

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:30:57 -0500

The state auditor says state Treasurer Richard Moore and Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue campaigned for governor using state resources on state time.

The reports from auditor Les Merritt's office came after several months of investigation, sparked by complaints from each candidate's opponent.

"I recognize that these allegations may be a political football, but as the independent State Auditor I have a statutory obligation to review any allegation of misconduct without respect to its motivation," Merritt said in a statement.

He said the investigation found that both campaigns used state computers and Internet connections "above a reasonable personal use" for their campaigns.

Auditors found that Perdue installed a separate Internet server and told staffers to use their personal computers during their lunch break for campaign work, but Merritt said she did not have adequate controls to ensure they did not.

They also found that a Moore staffer used her father-in-law's e-mail account to make public records requests about Perdue, while other staffers looked at political Web sites online and circulated campaign documents on work e-mails.