Mr. Garrett’s exit
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
If Gov. Easley didn’t can appointee, he should have
Wilmington developer Nick Garrett objects to assertions that Gov. Mike Easley’s office asked him to leave the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund board over allegations of a conflict of interests. Nothing to it, Mr. Garrett told the Observer; he just didn’t want to be reappointed last month, and wrote the governor to say so.
Perhaps Mr. Garrett’s account is correct. Perhaps the governor’s aides didn’t demand Mr. Garrett leave his position on the board. But if that’s the case, they were derelict in their duty. The governor, who once hired Mr. Garrett to renovate his Southport house and who appointed Mr. Garrett to the board in 2003, should have demanded his resignation on the spot.
The governor certainly would have been justified. Mr. Garrett’s actions on the board raise troubling questions. As the Observer’s Bruce Henderson and Mark Johnson reported Saturday, aides to the governor asked Mr. Garrett to leave the board because he appeared to have tried to use his position to make a deal for some land in Caldwell County near a tract the state may buy. (more…)
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