Strach: state elections board gets investigation help. Hartsell probe STILL pending.
It appears the NC State Board of Elections is getting some investigative assistance. It’s a good thing: they’ve got a quarter million pending cases that need to be worked.
State elections director Kim Strach let slip in her comments to McClatchy that a probe of state Senator Fletcher Hartsell (RINO-Cabarrus) is among those pending cases. In January 2013, news broke that Hartsell had used campaign funds to pay off $100,000 in personal credit card debt. The state board promised to audit the senator’s campaign filings within “a few weeks.” Again, that was January 2013. And here we are in May 2014.
During this time, we’ve heard about Hartsell’s involvement in a Cabarrus County economic development group that ended up dumping significant funds into the campaign of a 2012 lieutenant governor hopeful. Hartsell also dealt with some unflattering publicity about his law firm’s handling of an estate case.
Hartsell hopped aboard the Tillis For Senate campaign team during the primary.
somethin smells bad here but WHY has no enterprising, investigative reporter in NC interviewed the former 16 year Chairman of the SBOE, Larry Leake, and how he feels about the condition he left the SBOE in at his dismissal ?
SOMEBODY needs to corner this sketchy loiwyer in Asheville and
question him with deep reaching questions…