McCrory on transportation, abortion and more
Gov. Pat McCrory celebrates the creation of a new "transportation mobility formula" for funding roads, comments on a pending abortion bill, and says his appearance at a nonprofit fundraiser this weekend should not raise any ethics concerns.
Posted — Updated"It's not run by projects or politics, it's run by economic development, congestion and safety, The politics are literally being taken out of it," McCrory told WRAL News after the signing.
Too often, he said, road funding has been based on which area of the state has the most political clout in Raleigh.
"My goal is to get people into jobs, not to continue to be on unemployment," he said. "People who are requesting this change want to keep the status quo, and that status quo has not been very beneficial to our state or families or individuals for the past two or three years. The last time I checked, the president has not waived our debt. We have to pay it. Now, if the president is willing to waive our debt, $2.6 billion, then I'll talk to these Democrat leaders."
"A very small part of that (bill) deals with that issue," McCrory said. "I think you have some activists that are exaggerating the claims of this bill and trying to tie into things that don't exist."
Some critics have suggested it was unseemly for McCrory to appear at an event that grants exclusive access to such high-rollers. McCrory replied that he speaks to lots of groups and that he will be doing a public event on the same day.
"I'm doing everything that's proper. I hear a lot of people accusing and doing seven degrees of separation. I read a lot of headlines in the media about kind of accusations, but there's no facts to back it up," he said.
McCrory had no comment on Wednesday's landmark rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court on California's Proposition 8 or the striking down the Defense of Marriage Act, both of which deal with gay marriage. The governor said he had not been briefed on the issues or how they might affect North Carolina.
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