At today’s hearing before the state Board of Elections, former Gov. Mike Easley said that his friend McQueen Campbell contemplated filing a lawsuit about a “false” newspaper story about the governor’s travels published in 2008.
Turns out that story was published in Carolina Journal, Don Carrington’s “Clues Point to Secret Easley Air Service.”
The story wasn’t false; a post in News & Observer‘s Under the Dome verified it.?
Easley testifed that while he intially helped Campbell try to find a lawyer, he eventually urged his friend not to sue because he’d have to produce a lot of documents …
