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More than a dozen featured donors at a recent Pat McCrory fundraiser in Jacksonville gave money to Perdue in the past, including a few longtime Democratic contributors who backed former Govs. Jim Hunt and Mike Easley. For McCrory, a couple of names on...
Republican Party's Lincoln-Reagan Dinner. Here's a few scribbles from my notebook: --It seems like McCrory relished the chance to challenge Perdue before she exited. And it is clear he is trying his best to tie the other Democratic candidates for...
FILE - In this Friday, June 3, 2011 file photo, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina George E.B. Holding leaves the Terry Sanford Federal Building in Raleigh, N.C. Holding, the Republican federal prosecutor who stayed in his post... View Photo »
This is something that Republicans are probably salivating over. You can see the attack ads that are going to be run against governor Perdue’s campaign next year. They’re going to try to link her campaign activities and finance problems to other democrats, Mike Easley, Jim Black, she’s been part of stat...
Jack O'Hale, the Smithfield attorney representing Jones, said Tuesday that he hoped the state's fight against his client would stop. "Everybody tells me the state is broke, and yet they keep spending taxpayers' money to fight this," O'Hale said. Jones,...
(Ricoh didn’t get a vote.) You can find the full text of the ruling here. Patrol leaders said they initially planned to discipline Jones but decided to fire him when then-Gov. Mike Easley’s office intervened. In its ruling, the court noted testimony...
"These Highway Patrol canines are not house pets," O'Hale said in a 2010 hearing in a Wake County courtroom. "They are living, breathing weapons with teeth." O'Hale argued that Jones would have faced little punishment had not then-Gov. Mike Easley's...
The nature of the indictments against Governor Perdue’s campaign reminds voters of disgraced Governor Mike Easley, an era they thought they had moved past
The court ruled Tuesday that Wake County Superior Court Judge James Hardin was correct when he determined two years ago that the Highway Patrol improperly fired Sgt. Charles Jones. Jones was dismissed in 2007 on the orders of then-Gov. Mike Easley...
Ricoh was not injured during the incident. Jones' termination was ordered by then Governor Mike Easley. A year later the State Personnel Commission ordered the Patrol to reinstate Jones saying it found cause for discipline but not dismissal. The...
Michael Francis (Mike) Easley (born March 23, 1950) was the governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 2001-2009. He is a Democrat and was North Carolina's second Catholic governor. Thomas Burke was the first, though Easley is the first elected by popular vote. Full Article
This is something that Republicans are probably salivating over. You can see the attack ads that are going to be run against governor Perdue’s campaign next year. They’re going to try to link her campaign activities and finance problems to other democrats, Mike Easley, Jim Black, she’s been part of stat...
The nature of the indictments against Governor Perdue’s campaign reminds voters of disgraced Governor Mike Easley, an era they thought they had moved past
