Easley presser: travel and budget
Gov. Mike Easley has a presser to talk about home foreclosures today, backing a bill that will help people in trouble with sub-prime mortgages stay in their homes. (You can click here to read that press release.)
More fun was the off-topic Q & A portion which covered two topics: his wife's travel habits and the budget.
He got a little testy with reporters asking about the travel expenses, saying that the trips have value and help recruit foreign travelers and investment to North Carolina. Click here to listen to some of that. (The audio is audible although not the best because my recorder wasn't mic'd up properly.)
On the budget, Easley said he didn't want to get into what would or would not prompt a veto. But then he said, "Certainly, very troublesome to me are the tax cuts for the wealthy." Easley's was referring there, I believe, to a proposed elimination of the gift tax. Click here to listen to two questions in that arena.
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I resent to the utmost the Governors' remarks!
He acts like no one in N.C. has ever traveled to Europe.
You can rent something other than a Mercedes!
I've rented cars in Scotland, Germany, Austria England and Ireland for cost on par with what we pay here to rent a car.
Hotel rooms at 800.00 dollars per night. Several years ago I rented an apartment in Vienna for a week for 450.00 Dollars, near the Palace.
He should be impeached!
Posted on July 1, 2008 4:08 PM
I resent to the utmost the Governors' remarks!
He acts like no one in N.C. has ever traveled to Europe.
You can rent something other than a Mercedes!
I've rented cars in Scotland, Germany, Austria England and Ireland for cost on par with what we pay here to rent a car.
Hotel rooms at 800.00 dollars per night. Several years ago I rented an apartment in Vienna for a week for 450.00 Dollars, near the Palace.
He should be impeached!
Posted on July 1, 2008 4:09 PM
I support Easley and think he has every right to feed off the taxpayers hard working taxes to fund his vacations and then lie about it... After all his good friend Bill Clinton did the same and got away with it, so why not Easley. Besides, the foolish public has short term memory and don't seem to care at all this his wife got an 88% raise at a "public institution" with no oversight when the average state worker gets their 2%... One has to ask where are the university and state auditors and why aren't they doing their professional duty in looking further into his other coverups and reporting this and other obvious abuses of our tax money? I am sure they would be all over a state clerk stealing a couple of bucks from the coffee fund...so why not here?
Also, I too recently lived in Europe and travel there frequently and the Easleys are lying about the costs there thinking most of us are just poor ignorant voters...
Posted on July 2, 2008 12:47 PM