WTVD-TV in Durham put Gov. Mike Easley on the spot this week when its reporter asked Easley where he went over the Labor Day holiday, and why he wouldn’t reveal it, especially since he’d asked North Carolinians to save gas that weekend. Easley said he went “home”—Southport. He got help fielding the question from Crime Control and Public Safety Secretary Bryan Beatty, who said they don’t talk about the governor’s schedule due to security concerns. But Don Carrington told WTVD that where the governor has already been isn’t a security issue and that the taxpaying public has a right to know where he went since they paid for it.
