The N&O’s Andy Curliss blogs on the just-released State Board of Elections report (PDF) on travel by gubernatorial candidates in 2004 and 2008 not named Easley.
The report notes one flight Bev Perdue failed to disclose (to a 2007 fundraiser in Michigan) and conflicting rationales from her campaign about why it wasn’t. In an accompanying memo (PDF), SBOE Executive Director Gary Bartlett said there was sloppiness, but no evidence of “intent of wrongdoing” by anyone.
That’ll be for the board to decide, initially. The person who might be in a bit of hot water is former Treasurer Richard Moore, who (in his official capacity as treasurer) recently lost a public-records lawsuit filed by the State Employees Association of North Carolina, and who also had a penchant for asking for campaign contributions from investment firms that had business before the state.
From the report:
The response [from Moore’s campaign] states that all records from the Moore Committee have been destroyed. In accordance with the records retention requirement for political committee as found on page 38 of the Campaign Finance Manual, no records should have been destroyed until January 2011.
Even if Moore did violate campaign laws, the statute of limitations for pursuing any charges may have passed. Perhaps he was simply following the Easley playbook on public records.
