ON A JET PLANE: While investigating Gov. Bev Perdue's use of private planes for campaign flights, State Board of Elections Chairman Larry Leake chartered a private plane from Asheville to Raleigh to supervise the questioning of a close friend of the governor's. (N&O)
ONE MAN'S PORK...Local academics are in turns miffed, bemused and stung by ridicule from two U.S. senators who cited their university research among the 100 most wasteful stimulus-funded projects in the country. (N&O)
ON APPEAL: Lawyers for three death row inmates who say their death sentences should be set aside because of racial bias want to have one judge decide their cases. (N&O)
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Governor's Comments
August 5, 2010 - 3:19pm — NotaliberalSeems like Perdue tries to comment on everything that is going on. Usually, she shows her ignorance because she has no idea what she is talking about, just wants the press.
She is very conspicuous by her absence in commenting on this matter. Could it be that she has something to hide and cannot afford to raise Leake's ire?
Bev appointee obstructs justice re: Perdue's illegal flights
August 5, 2010 - 1:53pm — concerned53Folks, it isn't that difficult to conclude that there has been a Nixonian obstruction of justice by a Perdue appointee and likely Perdue herself. And given that Bev just signed an ethics bill, her silence is deafening. If she was innocent, she should publicly say, "children, please talk to me, my staffers and here are all of my records." But nothing from her except she and her staffers threw up their own roadblocks when asked to produce either records or staff members.
Where there's smoke, there sure is fire. Keep digging.