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Governor Easily Travels Across Town to Address the Wildlife Commission

Apr 03, 2007 @ 09:44 pm by Moose

Keep on fighting the Navy’s proposed Outlaying Landing Field site in Washington County the Governor told the staff of the Wildlife Commission this morning. Governor Easily has become frustrated that after four years of trying to work with the US Navy on identifying an appropriate site they continue to focus solely on the Washington County site that is only a few miles from Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

“When they came out with this plan it was very clear they were trying to run the waterfowl off, starve them out or poison them,” he said. “It’s pretty clear they’re trying to ruin the refuge, and we’re not going to be a part of that. We’re going to fight it.”

The Governor is taking the unusual step of reaching out to Senators from other states because in his view the Senators from North Carolina are not engaged in this issue. Senator Burr & Senator Dole today took exception to the Governor’s remarks.

Burr said in a prepared statement he would be glad to talk to Easley about the landing field, but “to date, I haven’t gotten a call from the governor on this issue.”

Dole spokeswoman Katie Norman said Dole “has been fully engaged in the issues” surrounding the landing field for more than four years “and she is pleased that the governor has recently decided to join the discussion.”

In my view neither of our Senators has represented the citizens of North Carolina who they were elected to represent. If they want to support the Navy on this issue, although I would think they were wrong, at least they would let the citizens of North Carolina know where they stand. Idly standing by to see what happens is not leadership and they need to step up now.

WRAL

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