Jack Betts says Gov. Mike Easley missed the point.
Writing on This Old State, the Charlotte Observer columnist said that Easley's complaint that the N&O did a "hatchet job" on Correction Secretary Theodis Beck was off base.
"Easley's problem is not that the newspaper did a hatchet job on one of his appointees; his problem is that he wasn't paying attention to what his appointees were doing — or in this case, not doing — and the newspaper found him out," he writes.
Betts said that the real problem is unsupervised probationers commit too many crimes, especially murder and manslaughter, and the administration did little to address the problem.
"Look: The governor is a charming man, funny, witty, wise in many ways and one of the best woodworkers I know," Betts writes. "But on some issues he's full of bull. This is one of them."
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