Perdue flight records appear out of thin air

Seemingly out of thin air, Gov. Bev Perdue’s campaign released a computer spreadsheet to North Carolina investigators that shows that her staff kept detailed records of private flights taken by Perdue, provided by 2008 election supporters, which were not reported as campaign expenses. Previously, Perdue’s staff blamed the failure to report 41 flights on “poor record-keeping.” It would seem that the real reason the Perdue campaign failed to report the flights was simply “poor ethics.”

As reported in the News & Observer, Will Polk, the chief legal advisor in the Lt. Gov. Perdue’s office in 2008, said that in the spring of that year, the campaign staff had records documenting and accounting for all flights until then, according to Kim Westbrook Strach, the elections board’s lead investigator.

“Still, Perdue’s campaign failed to publicly disclose many of those flights until 2009, after reports surfaced about $60,000 in unreported flights provided to former Gov. Mike Easley, a Democrat. His campaign was fined $100,000 by the state elections board last year.”

This is the latest in a laundry list of scandals for North Carolina Democrats: Mike Easley, Mary Easley, Ruffin Poole, The State Elections Board, R.C. Soles, Tony Rand,…

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