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Easley Ends Lawsuit, Gets Deal on House • Big Bond Issue Talk in CJ Reader Survey Raleigh, P. 8 Carolina Journal would like to hear from you. Please fill out and return our survey. Dealing With Traffic, P. 16 C A R O L I N A See Page 28 Statewide Edition A Monthly Journal of News, Analysis, and Opinion from April 2007 • Vol. 16, No.4 the John Locke Foundation www.CarolinaJournal.com JOURNAL www.JohnLocke.org Easley Ends Lawsuit, Gets Deal on House — $77,000 less than a comparable home Bald Head Island on the same street, and sold at the same Bald Head Island Lim- time by the same developer. The Bald Head Island beach developer inks deal ited sold a home to erosion issues were detailed in a 1996 Easley and his brother Democracy North Carolina report, “The after suit settled Pollution Lobby: Shoreline for Sale, in 1996. Records Whatever Happened to the Year of the By DON CARRINGTON Coast?” The report claimed that political Executive Editor show a purchase pressure was behind the state’s settle- RALEIGH price of $250,000 ment with Davis. The organization is a n June 1996, one year after N.C. At- nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that torney General Mike Easley settled — $77,000 less than a studies the flow of political money. a lawsuit and granted exceptions to The report made no mention of the Istate beach-erosion laws for homeown- comparable home on Easleys’ real estate transaction. Bob Hall, ers at Bald Head Island, the island’s executive director of Democracy North developer sold Easley and his brother the same street. Carolina, told Carolina Journal recently a new home — for at least $70,000 less CJ photo by Don Carrington that he did not know about the Easleys’ than a comparable home. home purchase until he was told by a The Easleys’ $250,000 purchase is other beachfront homeowners, and de- low beach protection structures to be reporter. The 1996 report can be found now valued at $1,129,270. velopment company Bald Head Island installed. on the organization’s website. The lawsuit against the state Limited all benefited when the attorney Bald Head Island Limited sold In news stories published last was filed by millionaire Walter Davis, general’s office settled the lawsuit in the new home to Easley and his brother who was seeking to stop beach erosion 1995. The state made an exception to Henry and their wives. Public records at his Bald Head Island home. Davis, environmental laws and agreed to al- show a purchase price of $250,000 Continued as “Easley,” Page 2 Smithfield Man Scours Pacific for Buffalo Soldier Legacy By HAL YOUNG ancestor paid for Avery is a local business owner and called ‘Bell Town’ by the neighbors,” he Contributing Editor with bales of cot- vice chairman of the Republican Party said, in tribute to the family that lived RALEIGH ton. After moving for the 2nd Congressional District. He there for many years. n 1913, the highway from Smithfield his family 400 miles grew up in New Jersey, but his parents Some of the family’s memories, to Raleigh was a dirt road. One day to reclaim part of were from Johnston County and brought though, run deeper and more troubling. that year, Wesley Bell, a man who still his heritage, Joseph Joseph to visit family as a child. Just as many white Southerners have Ibore scars on his back from whippings Avery of Smithfield Like many others, Joseph Avery family traditions about relatives who he suffered as a slave, turned his mule- has crossed the Pa- Sr. left the farm he sharecropped and served with Gen. Robert E. Lee, or what drawn wagon off the road onto the land Joseph Avery on cific twice to help moved north after World War II, seek- happened when Gen. William T. Sher- he had just purchased. Picking a likely recent trip to the strangers reclaim ing higher-paying industrial jobs. In the man passed through the area, Joseph spot on high ground, he began clearing Philippines part of theirs — the mid-1980s, his son decided to return to said his family passed down traditions his own property to build a home for legacy of Ameri- the family’s old home in North Carolina. about the other side of that culture. himself and his family. can Buffalo Soldiers who stayed in the He purchased part of the 225 acres once Ninety years later, Bell’s great- Philippines after serving in the Spanish owned by Bell. grandson lives on part of the land his American War. “That part of the county is still Continued as “Smithfield,” Page 3 Do you support increasing the man- 80datory school attendance age from The John Locke Foundation NONPROFIT ORG. 16 to 18 years old? Contents 200 W. Morgan St., #200 U.S. POSTAGE Raleigh, NC 27601 PAID RALEIGH, NC North Carolina 3 PERMIT NO. 1766 Interview 7 Education 8 Higher Education 12 Yes 72% Local Government 16 No 21% Books & the Arts 20 Not Sure 7% Opinion 24 Parting Shot 28 John% William Respondents Pope Civitas in June Institute Civitas Poll, Institute March Poll 2007 CAROLINA C A R O L I N A North Carolina JOURNAL JOURNAL Easley Settles Suit, Gets House Deal Richard Wagner Continued from Page 1 Editor year, CJ reported two other favorable Don Carrington real estate transactions that developers Executive Editor gave Easley. In 2001, shortly after Easley started Paul Chesser, Mitch Kokai, his first term as governor, Wilmington Michael Lowrey, Donna Martinez real estate developer and builder Charles Associate Editors “Nick” Garrett began remodeling the Chad Adams, David N. Bass Easleys’ home at Southport. Garrett or Shannon Blosser, Andrew Cline someone else provided construction fi- Roy Cordato, Paige Holland Hamp nancing for the $250,000 project. Builders David Hartgen, Sam A. Hieb normally do not finance the construc- Lindalyn Kakadelis, George Leef tion of projects that large. Easley took Karen McMahan, Karen Palasek out mortgages on the property, but not Above, on left, is Gov. Mike Easley’s home in Southport, which has a tax value of $1,149,510. Susan Robinson, Marc Rotterman until eight months after the project was At right is a sign for the Cannonsgate subdivision in Carteret County. Easley bought a Mike Rouse, Jim Stegall completed. The home has a current tax waterfront lot there in 2005 that has a current tax value of $1,198,245. (CJ Photos by Don George Stephens, Jeff Taylor value of $1,149,510. Carrington) Michael Walden, Karen Welsh Easley later appointed Garrett Hal Young cally patrol the connecting run along the erosion. The groins are large, sand- to the N.C. Board of Architecture and Contributing Editors beach, but signs warn private vehicles filled tubes stretching 300 feet from to the Clean Water Management Trust to stay away. the beach into the ocean. North Caro- Fund Board. The N.C. Department of Alyn Berry, Geoff Lawrence, It is considered one of North lina had banned sea walls and other Transportation awarded Garrett a fran- Michael Moore, Jonathan Murray, Carolina’s most exclusive resort areas. hard structures since 1985, and only a Kamen Nikolaev, Haley Wynn chise for a state license tag office, even Only 2,000 of its 12,000 acres are sched- few exceptions had been made. Editorial Interns though a DOT supervisor said a new • Frustrated with efforts to office was unnecessary. uled for development. The balance will remain natu- protect the beach in front of his In Decem- beach house, Davis sued the state in Published by ral areas. There ber 2005, the same 1994. Easley’s office led the state’s The John Locke Foundation year Easley started are no high-rise 200 W. Morgan St., # 200 Bald Head Island land- buildings and no defense. his second term as • The same year, Bald Head’s Raleigh, N.C. 27601 governor, coastal billboards. With (919) 828-3876 • Fax: 821-5117 owners gave Easley a government applied for a permit to real estate devel- the exception of a www.JohnLocke.org few construction renourish the beach. The state agreed oper Randy Al- total of $63,100 from to the renourishment, but not to the len sold Easley a and emergency Jon Ham 1989-95. vehicles, there are groins. Vice President & Publisher choice waterfront no cars allowed on • In early 1995, Davis met with lot in the Cannon- Hunt to make his case for the hard “Shoreline for Sale” the island. Trans- John Hood sgate community structures. Later, Davis met privately Democracy North Carolina portation is by Chairman & President in Carteret Coun- with the attorney general’s lawyer foot, bicycle, or ty. Public records leading the state’s defense. An agree- golf cart. Bruce Babcock, Herb Berkowitz show that Easley ment was worked out in which Davis In 1983 Bald Charlie Carter, James Culbertson paid $549,880. A agreed to drop the lawsuit and the Jim Fulghum, Chuck Fuller recorded deed of trust shows he secured Head Island Limited, owned by the state agreed to allow the groins along Bill Graham, Robert Luddy a $494,000 loan from Branch Banking George P. Mitchell Family, took control Assad Meymandi, Baker A. Mitchell Jr., the beach as well as to lobby the U.S. & Trust Company. One year later the of the island. The company has more Carl Mumpower, J. Arthur Pope Army Corps of Engineers to provide county tax office revalued the property than 300 employees involved in real the sand. Tula Robbins, Thomas A. Roberg estate development, sales, and island David Stover, Robert Stowe III to $1,198,245.
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