RALEIGH — Either Randy Ramsey or Jarrett Bay Boatworks is connected with at least four flights provided to the 2008 Perdue campaign for governor, based on records from an investigation by the State Board of Elections. Ramsey says he recalls providing two of the flights.
The most likely explanation for federal interest in the Perdue flights is as a natural extension of the preexisting investigation of the Easley flights.
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.
RALEIGH — Bev Perdue's 2008 campaign committee used a convoluted and inefficient system to arrange flights for her gubernatorial campaign.
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.
