Randolph Hospital And The Courier-Tribune In Asheboro, North Carolina: Breaking Faith

Enjoying a little time off, I had planned to let my post on "The Christmas Cross" sit a few days. 

But there was an interesting Sunday Editorial in the Greensboro N&R on the fall of Mike Easley (as you might remember, the N&R endorsed Mr. Sleaze every chance they got):

"The people of North Carolina have a right to expect lawful conduct by their elected leaders or those who seek positions of power. Easley broke faith with the public — not with wholesale corruption but in ways that revealed a sense of entitlement, a desire to make the office serve himself and his family rather than a devotion to serve the people".

Now, from my view from the cheap seats of public service, I think Easley, as an extention of the deep-blue Jim Hunt political machine, was DRENCHED in corruption . . . the Enronish kind that dresses well and dines at the Country Club. 

(We in Asheboro know ALL about the wink & nod.  Hey, ya think Keith Crisco can get Mike or Mary Sleazely a job at Pfeiffer too?)

I also think that the people of North Carolina have a right to expect lawful conduct by ANYONE who makes their living courtesy of the taxpayer's largess.

That would include the way-overpaid senior executives of "non-profit" Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, North Carolina.

Not that it's a story the N&R would ever tell.  Nope.  They're far too beholding to the advertising dollars of the local healthcare system that once employed this guy to actually BE journalists and tell local stories.

As for the other "newspaper" serving Asheboro, We-the-wrong-People gave up on the Courier Tribune long ago.

So I'll have to pass on the tongue-in-cheek suggestions of several people over the weekend to apply for a position as one of Ray's guest-columnists.

He "broke the faith" when he sold his soul to Randolph for the tasty ordurbs.