McCrory gives parting gifts to advisers
A little more than 30 hours before leaving office, Gov. Pat McCrory appointed three of his close advisers Friday to positions on state commissions.
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Thomas Stith, McCrory's chief of staff, and Lee Roberts, his former budget director, were placed on the board of directors for Golden LEAF, the Rocky Mount-based foundation that doles out rural economic development grants from the money North Carolina receives from the national settlement with cigarette manufacturers.
Bob Stephens, McCrory's general counsel, was appointed to a position on the State Board of Community Colleges, along with former Republican state Rep. Brian Brown of Pitt County.
Meanwhile, Dr. Randall Williams, a deputy director of the state Department of Health and Human Services, was one of five people named to the Oil and Gas Commission, which has been defunct since McCrory won a lawsuit against legislators over appointments to state commissions a year ago.
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