Longtime radio personality and Locke Foundation friend Matt Mittan reports the following:
As reports started swirling around the Tar Heel state about embattled Governor Bev Perdue possibly bowing out at the end of her first term, I immediately sought out confirmation about the rumors. Our offices and studio are located in the same building as the Governors Western Office.
As I walked into Perdue’s office in Asheville, NC, I made eye contact with Forrest Gilliam, Director of the Governor’s Western Office and waited at his open office door. He had just gotten on the phone at the time I entered his office. As I waited to talk to him he asked the person on the other end of the phone “Is it true?” Then following a short pause asked the person on the other end of the phone what they wanted him to do, to which he followed up with, “OK, I’ll just sit on it then.” He added toward the end of the conversation that ‘things are going kind of crazy around here.’
Once he finished with one more phone call, I introduced myself and who I was with, I asked if there was any truth to the reports. His response was “I don’t know anything.”
