The N&O reports today on the indictment handed down to state Rep. Stephen LaRoque (R-Greene, Lenoir, Wayne) involving his illegal handling of government grant money to nonprofit groups he ran: State Rep. Stephen LaRoque, chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Raleigh on charges of theft [...]
NC Democratic Party Scandal Takes Sad Turn
Jay Parmley’s former girlfriend believes that he infected her with HIV. Parmley, former Executive Director of the NC Democratic Party, resigned on April 15 amid allegations of sexual harassment from a young male employee. According to the Daily Caller article, Rebecca Burgin was 20 when she met Parmley (32) who was her American Government professor. [...]
Indictments Handed Down to 3 Perdue Associates
Dan Kane of the N&O has the details on the three indictments just handed down to close associates of Gov. Bev Perdue. A Wake County grand jury today handed down indictments alleging that a top aide to Gov. Bev Perdue’s 2008 campaign schemed to pay a staffer $32,000 for work that was kept off the [...]
Easley Prosecutor Steps Down, May Consider Run for Attorney General
George E. B. Holding, the federal prosecutor for eastern North Carolina, has resigned today, the News and Observer reports. Since his appointment by President George W. Bush in 2006, Holding has brought some of the biggest names in North Carolina politics to trial for corruption and pay-to-play scandals. The list includes former Democratic Governor Mike [...]
Ethics & Divided Government
I recently wrote an article discussing the record of incompetence and the lack of ethical leadership that has plagued Raleigh over the past several years. Included were examples such as the SBI crime lab investigation, the debacle at the Employment Security Commission and at the Department of Revenue, the absence of a meritocratic civil service [...]
