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Friday, May 22, 2009
News Observer OpEd to Mary Easley: Resign
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Couldn't agree more ...
Former First Lady Mary Easley needs to stop dawdling and get off the public dime. The questions about her five-year, $850,000 contract with N.C. State have become so pressing – and the answers so absent – that she can no longer be a credible person for the job.Gov. Bev Perdue, in less than a profile of courage, wouldn't say Tuesday whether she thinks Easley should quit. But UNC system president Erskine Bowles, system board chair Hannah Gage and N.C. State chancellor James Oblinger have said she should. They are right, of course, though late in coming to that realization.
This whole deal, like others swirling around it, smells bad. The governor's wife lands a high-paying job to run a campus speaker series and public safety center. The interim provost who gives her the job suddenly becomes permanent provost despite not being a candidate for the job. And the school's board chairman is a buddy of then-Gov. Mike Easley's who does favors for the governor and gets help from the Easley administration around the time Mrs. Easley is landing the job.
Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer editorial here.
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