Corruption and Cronyism is Alive and Well in NC

Mike Easley, Corruptocrat

This morning’s Charlotte Observer has a major piece on the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. It is some very interesting and enlightening reading. But, this goes way beyond the SBI. Corruption and cronyism run rampant through the whole North Carolina state government. In my opinion, this is because the state has been under one party rule (Democrat) for the entire 22 years I have lived in NC, and probably much longer.


They say Chicago is a culture of corruption, but you don’t have to look past Raleigh to see that corruption and cronyism is alive and well in North Carolina. We have seen a few Republican governors, but from the Attorney General on down, the state has been controlled by Democrats. Democrats have controlled who gets new highways, who is appointed to state regulatory agencies, and most important they have controlled redistricting for state and federal legislatures that have created districts that favor Democrats. For example, you have the 12th Congressional District that was added after the 2000 census that was engineered to favor a Democrat. Also, Lake Norman is split and added to two predominately Charlotte districts so LKN residents see their Senators repeatedly vote against their interests.

Here is an example. Since 1993, only two people have been Attorney General, Roy Cooper and Mike Easley. And, Mike Easley is currently being investigated for corruption. If you Google “NC SBI Corruption” for an image, you get a picture of Mike Easley.

As far as SBI Directors, except for the one who died every one of them who served for the last 20 years are still in the NC government at high levels. Greg McLeod, the one appointed last month was a lobbyist for Roy Cooper. Shouldn’t the Director of the state’s highest law enforcement agency have a law enforcement background? Robin Pendergraft, the one who ran the agency for the past nine years was not fired, just reassigned to Deputy Attorney General for Medicaid Fraud. Brian Beatty is now a commissioner of the NC Industrial Commission. Jim Coman is a Senior Deputy Attorney General. This looks like employment for life, they just shuffle their friends in and out of jobs in the state government.

The cure for this corruption is a total colon cleanse. We need to vote out the Democrats in charge so we can get rid of the corruption and cronyism. We need a new deal in allocating highway funds. We need to have at least one house of the legislature to be in Republican hands so the Democrats don’t have a free hand to direct money and projects to the home districts of their cronies. We need to have redistricting that makes sense and is fair.