Gov. Mike Easley started the day with roughly 60 pieces of legislation still pending from the session that wrapped up July 18. He has until midnight Aug. 17 to sign, veto, or ignore those bills. (If he ignores them, the bills become law without his signature.)
Gerry Cohen is keeping track of the bill signings on his blog. The signing pattern is interesting.
July 28 ? Easley signed 26 bills.
July 31 ? Easley signed one bill, the highly publicized drought management measure.
Aug. 2 ? Easley signed 10 bills on Saturday.
Aug. 3 ? Easley signed 14 bills on Sunday. (Cohen notes that the bills were signed between 3:26 a.m. and 3:49 a.m.)
If we had known earlier that the governor kept the same weekend working hours as Daren Bakst, perhaps Daren could have provided the governor some helpful information on the involuntary annexation moratorium bill that died at session’s end.
