Filling in for Commander Hood, former Carolina Journal associate editor Paul Chesser writes about the effort he and CJ editor Don Carrington made to warn everyone about Mike Easley:

As Carrington and I sought records and called to get questions answered in 2000 for our stories, we were stonewalled in the way the Raleigh media grew familiar with during Easley’s eight years as governor. The documentary evidence seemed clear, but Attorney General Easley did not feel compelled to provide explanations.

His ability to escape scrutiny carried over into his governorship. The Raleigh media and political class may be murmuring now, but had they paid attention as the century changed, they would have had an inkling of what they were getting with Easley.

Makes me think back to Election Eve 2000 when I called a liberal friend of mine and told him if he thought a vote for Easley would advance the righteous liberal cause, then he was sadly mistaken. Kind of like the way liberals voted for Bev Perdue last November in the effort to transform our country into Obama Nation.