The State Board of Elections ousted Executive Director Kim Strach Monday, May 13, on a party line vote, naming Karen Brinson Bell of Charleston, South Carolina, to replace Strach effective June 1. Strach served six of her 19 years with the state board as executive director, having built a reputation as an intrepid investigator on...
Journalists are criticized today for any number of things. They’re biased and even evil. They invent stories and propagate fake news, an allegation, by the way, that’s as dangerous as it is wrongheaded and ridiculous. That’s not what good journalists do. Period. Good journalists are vital purveyors of information and are indispensable in protecting the...
Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday named a familiar figure in state politics to an open seat in Judicial District 24: Larry Leake, the former chairman of the State Board of Elections who presided over the hearings that resulted in a $100,000 fine and a criminal referral against former Gov. Mike Easley. Easley, a Democrat who...
RALEIGH — Elections Board Chairman Larry Leake acknowledged to Carolina Journal that the board has questioned only one flight provider under oath at a public hearing, and, further, that it has not taken sworn testimony from any campaign workers about the questionable flights.
Former Gov. Mike Easley's top lawyer has a faulty memory.
RALEIGH — Bev Perdue's 2008 campaign committee used a convoluted and inefficient system to arrange flights for her gubernatorial campaign.
RALEIGH — By failing to identify the senders or recipients, or choosing not to notice whether the e-mails were sent from government accounts or private e-mail providers, it would have been difficult for Reuben Young to determine whether the documents he was reviewing were public records dealing with state business or personal correspondence.
The discussion between attorney Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs and Perdue campaign officials shows a greater involvement than has been admitted by the campaign in efforts to find ways to report, after the fact, flights that violated state campaign law.
I believe Wallace’s explanation that the reason the Perdue team had failed to report the 42 flights was because the campaign kept sloppy records.
ASHEVILLE — The board voted 4-1 in favor of the fine. Republican member Bill Peaslee was the only member to vote against. Another motion to hold public hearings related to the investigation of campaign flights failed by a 2-3 vote.
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue's campaign received more than $28,000 in unreported free air travel over a 20-month period from her friend New Bern attorney Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs, according to a report by State Board of Elections investigator Kim Westbrook Strach.
