The N&O says if Mike Easley’s noon hearing “leads to a conviction, Easley would be the first governor in North Carolina’s history to be convicted in court of a crime related to his official service.”
“Unprecedented,” says retired Meredith College history professor William Price.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again —I’ll never forget the phone call I made to a liberal friend before the 2000 election telling him if he thought a vote for Easley was a vote for humanity’s greater good, then he’d better think again.
I don’t think he listened.
Update Note Tony Wilkins’ comment. So on a different but not unrelated subject, the N&O reports:
The proposals are just the first step in what is likely to be a long and winding political path as the Democratic governor considers her options and then the new Republican legislature enacts a budget, probably some time next summer. But the options are the clearest indications yet, that the lives of millions of North Carolinians will likely be touched by a new wave of austerity in state government that has not been seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
State park closures, cutting back on inmate labor crews, 1,000 layoffs.
