Morning Roundup: Perdue's staff drafted false letters to promote road projects

from Under the Dome blog by John_Frank:

Morning Roundup: Perdue's staff drafted false letters to promote road projects:

Gov. Bev Perdue’s staff drafted a pair of false letters last week in an effort to start the flow of money for two major toll road projects that transportation officials say won’t be ready for state funding until 2014, according to documents obtained by The News & Observer. The documents indicate that Perdue herself was involved in the issue, which concerns a budget debate over $63 million in start-up money for the Garden Parkway, a highway project near Charlotte, and a planned bridge to the northern Outer Banks known as the Mid-Currituck Bridge.

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