Forma Gubna Mike Sleazy and more tangled webs.

This article was broken in today's Raleigh News and Observer (Link to the Story)along with its sister paper the Charlotte Observer (Link to the Story).

From the Pack Pride website from Calstabn:
The N&O has broken this one wide open, folks. And the Chairman of our very own Board of Trustees (whom Sleazely appointed) is involved in the sleaze:

While he was governor, Mike Easley turned a small group of influential North Carolina businessmen into his own private air service, an arrangement Easley kept secret.

Starting in 2003, Easley took at least 25 flights on private jets, some in apparent violation of campaign laws and ethics rules, documents and interviews show. Some flights were free. The value of others exceeded campaign contribution limits.

Records show that the businessmen who flew Easley took him around the state and to such places as Atlanta, Richmond, Washington and Florida. Easley, a Democrat who left office in January, appointed some of the benefactors to boards that oversee state transportation networks, the state's largest universities and other state functions. ...

McQueen Campbell, a Raleigh real-estate broker, acknowledged in interviews that he provided free travel for the governor. One trip was a fishing outing to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., given when Easley was required under ethics rules to disclose gifts of at least $200. Easley didn't disclose the trip. Some of Campbell's flying of the governor was accounted for in campaign reports, but not all.

Easley twice appointed Campbell as a trustee at N.C. State University, where he became chairman.\

Campbell and McRae were tapped to fly Easley most frequently, the records show.

Here is a link from which the excerpts above were taken - (http://www.newsobserver.com/29...ry/1520021.html)

And that's not all. Oh, not nearly all. Your tax dollars paid to rent a house in Southport for Sleazley's state trooper detail:

By the middle of his second term, Mike Easley was spending so much time at his second home in Southport that the state Highway Patrol rented a house there for troopers assigned to protect him.

Travel records that Easley had long sought to keep private show that during his eight years as governor, Easley and his wife, Mary, commuted hundreds of times in state aircraft and vehicles between Raleigh and the quaint coastal village where they own a home on the Cape Fear River.

The Easleys' travel came at the expense of taxpayers who paid for the troopers to take them to the coast and back, and protect them while in Southport.

The trooper home with river views on Southport's Bay Street cost the state $72,000 in rent over the final three years of Easley's term, according to invoices.

In that same time, troopers generated at least $40,000 in expenses tied to Southport travel, much of it accumulated one breakfast, lunch or dinner at a time.

The use of state aircraft to get the Easleys to Southport also came with a bill: more than $62,000 in the final three years of the administration alone.

A Highway Patrol spokesman, Capt. Everett Clendenin, said the house was rented to save motel costs. But records show the patrol was spending less on motel bills than it paid in rent for the house.

The home is owned by Davis Herring Jr., who could not be reached. He gave Easley's campaign $1,000 in September 2004, the only time he contributed to Easley's gubernatorial campaigns.

Here is a link from which the excerpts above were taken -
http://www.newsobserver.com/29...ry/1520025.html

The Hounds Opinion - At what point in time do proud North Carolinians come to the realization that our state government has been compromised and corrupted? Some of these opinions are my own and others come from elsewhere, but they are real and they are valid.

Can one not see that it is time for some investigations by independent bodies? Would Bev Perdue agree to this? There have been valid concerns that ACORN infiltrated this state's last election. Would she be willing to uncover the facts and have that issue possibly become validated?

Folks, it is time that we demand that these people get real and come clean. The corruption in this state has heavily contributed to the position we are in today. Where are the leaders in this community when it comes to this issue. Do they have a backbone? Are they willing to stand up and point out these wrongs or are they going to go along with it? If they continue to succumb to a tyrranical Raleigh, then they are just as culpable and guilty as the people who have (and still are) committed these crimes.

Below is a detailed list of links that point to the corruption in Raleigh. Please look over them. At the top right of this page are addresses to contact our local representatives under the problems and solutions forum. Please e-mail and write hand written letters to our local officials and demand accountability. It is time to hold some government officials feet to the fire.

1) The Lottery is called the North Carolina Education Lottery, but it is now being used as part of the general fund, while teachers are furloughed and money is being slashed from educational programs throughout this state.

2) Gubna Easily's wife was given a questionable position at North Carolina state University that pays well over $100,000 per year. Many have described this position as largely ceremonial. At a time when University budgets are being scrutinized why is she still in that position. Last year Mrs. Easley received a $70,000 raise (7/10/2008 article from the News and Observer).

3) Mary Easley's Lifestyle of the Rich & Famous trips to Europe were reported by WRAL-TV last June.
(6/30/2008 from WRAL.com). (Artcle from the News and Observer).

4) Read this one about a land deal involving the forma Gubna and 3 of his campaign contributors. (News and Observer 4/20/2009 - Feds looking at Easley land deal).

5) Here is a wonderful article about North Carolina's unassailable (bwahaha) Departmant of Transportation done by the Capital Monitor (Ka-Ching! Money Talks at the Department of Transportation - 3/6/2009).

6) Read about the tyrannical rule of our Leader of the North Carolina State Senate Tony Rand. It begins on Page 10 of this article. It is a PDF file. (From the Carolina Review - Page 10 - King Rand, Senate Majority Leader rules with Corruption and self-interest).

7) More, More, and Even More (Google Links to Forma Gubna and Corruption).