"North Carolinians expect me to do everything I can to help them have good jobs," Hunt says, "and I am willing to go to any corner of the globe to dothat."
But are taxpayers willing to pay for such trips? The five-country Europeantour Governor Hunt and his delegation of politicians and businessmen justreturned from cost taxpayers an estimated $518,000.
"That's how you get new jobs," Hunt explains, "by being aggressive. And that's what we did, and we're going to have thousands of new jobs comingas a result."
When asked what he would say to people who question such trips, GovernorHunt told WRAL's Bret Baier the tripis one of the best investments of public funds, since the largest growthin new jobs is from overseas.
While the Governor was overseas, headlines focused on an apparent campaigncontroversy. Columbus County businessman, James Cartrette, says he paidthousands to Governor Hunt's re-election campaign after he waspromised a seat on the Department of Transportation Board. That's apromise the Governor says his administration never made.
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