What’s a little nepotism to Democrats? Thursday. Tuesday is vote buying…
Via National Review:
North Carolina auditors called for “further legal review” of the way Democratic Senator Kay Hagan’s family used grant money awarded through the 2009 stimulus.
“Of particular concern were issues associated with potential conflicts of interest related to contracts awarded by the grantee to contractors during the execution of the grant projects,” says a memo written by staff at the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources and obtained by National Review Online.
The memo questions the propriety of “a number of transactions that appear to be executed between JDC Maufacturing, LLC, [a company co-owned by Senator Hagan’s husband, Chip] and companies controlled or managed by members of the same family.”
For instance, JDC Manufacturing hired a company managed by Tilden Hagan, Chip and Kay’s son, to work on the stimulus-funded energy project even though Tilden’s company was “not the low bidder on the project,” according to the memo.
Interestingly, however, the Charlotte Observer posted this story late last night, but it’s now pulled.
What, an act of journalism made it past us?
DELETE DELETE DELETE!
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— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 2, 2014
One hopes it’s just an update ‘glitch’ but it’s been missing for hours now. Perhaps running this story the weekend before the vote touched a nerve with someone…
Update:
Apparently, the original WBTV story that the Observer article was based on has vanished as well, according to North Carolina savant, Sister Toldjah:
WBTV did the original reporting on the story. Observer republished. But both stories are gone now. #ncsen #ncpol pic.twitter.com/pLaV8sG18k
— Stacey-SisterToldjah (@sistertoldjah) November 2, 2014