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Re: Martin, others want break for Black

Kingixolib — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:11:21 -0400

Leave him there to rot for all I care. Who knows, maybe soon he will have some North Carolina friends to keep him company.

We can only hope!

Re: Martin, others want break for Black

NoContest — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:56:47 -0400

Look at who is asking for this break for Jim Black! Jim Black was corrupt to the core and screwed everyone in NC and now he wants a break?! Keep him and his ilk in prison where they belong. If family members have health problems he should have thought about that before committing the crime! What does law enforcement say when bad people are in prison and want out for some “family” reason? The answer is too bad, unless you are well connected like Jim Black. What happens to Jim Black will tell us a lot about the criminal justice system in NC.

Two Choices for Black

PoliticalJunkie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:47:12 -0400

US Attorney George Holding should give Black two choices:

"Start talking"

"Do the time"

Clemency would be unacceptable and set a really bad precedent considering the plague of corruption infecting the Democrat Party and State Government.

Re: Easley will not receive severance

patman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:55:25 -0400

Regardless of whether or not she deserved it, she's going to whip NCSU in court. While contracts contain a clause that allow them to be broken in cases of financial exigency, it is obvious that isn't the true reason she was fired. No other contracts have been broken (nor will they), and despite the dire times, the university has not declared financial exigency. While they might have been able to argue that the contract was negotiated in bad faith due to political meddling, it is clear that she was fired due to political meddling, which is illegal. For this reason, she's going to need a truck to haul away all the money she wins in court.

Christmas in June

cdtew — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:56:17 -0400

I feel like I should be wearing pajamas with feet and drinking egg nog, but it's 85 outside.

No matter what though, the NC Democrat party will continue to slick off this bit of rain like water from a goose's back, and will try to turn the blame-train toward Burr and Foxx and whoever the scapegoat of the week is.

Perdue has a big problem

PoliticalJunkie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:39:40 -0400

Gerlach is essentially working for her at the non-governmental Democratic slush fund - Golden Leaf.

Andy Willis is her legislative liason.

Ruben Young is her Sec. of Crime and Public Safety.

All Perdue did was shuffle the chairs on the deck of the USS NC Democrat.

That boat is starting share some characteristics with the Titantic. I'd suggest she clean house now and get rid of all the Easley carryover.

Even Brutus had more honor

cdtew — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:41:31 -0400

Mary Easley has cost 3 others their reputation and jobs -- Campbell should very well have resigned, and Nielsen and Oblinger were caught up in the after-effects of her scandal. And yet she still has the audacity to remain in her position while the lieutenants figuratively fall on their swords?

"Forget not, Zeus, the author of these crimes!"
- Brutus, before taking his own life, after his remaining co-conspirators had done the same.

Jim Woodward

gercohen — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:19:59 -0400

Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward will be great. My son graduated from UNC-Charlotte in 2005 and I had the opportunity to meet Jim Woodward several times during those four years. Woodward is A+ and it is great he has agreed to take on this task.
I think he may have taught at NC State at some time in the past as well, but I may be wrong.