More good news for the Easleys
Gov. Mike. Easley is scheduled to receive the "America's Greatest Education Governor's Award" Thursday from the National Education Association "for his achievements in transforming North Carolina's public school system," according to an NEA news release.
NEA President Reg Weaver will bestow the honor in front of nearly NEA 10,000 delegates in Washington.
Given all the recent fallout over his fancy sojourns abroad, I presume he's flying coach.
Meanwhile, on the heels of first lady Mary Easley's own Travelgate brouhaha over exorbitant expenses comes word that she has received an 88 percent raise from N.C. State University.
Effective Tuesday, her salary jumped from $90,000 to $170,000.
Meanwhile, Gov. Easley has been preaching fiscal restraint to legislative budget writers.
Among the advice he imparted to lawmakers was for them to spend less on state employee raises.
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Nepotism is alive and well in Raleigh,NC. I also can see why the NEA really like Gov.Easley. He did alot to bring NC Teacher salaries up to the national Average while other state employees suffered in salary increase. As a former state employee, I remember when he took state employee monies to help balanced the state budget when the state reached a short fall, I am thinking it was 2003 maybe.
It was at that point that I realized it was no such thing as Democrats and Republicans only "Republicrats".
Posted on July 6, 2008 12:44 AM