Apr 11 2010
For N.C. Auditor, Auditing AND Paying Taxes are Optional
North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood can’t seem to stay out of the news. In early February, Under the Dome reported Wood was late in paying a $1,200 property tax bill on her Raleigh residence. Wood said she was late because she had to repay a $90,000 loan she took out to help finance her 2008 campaign for State Auditor.
Wake County Property Tax online records indicate Wood paid her delinquent taxes in full on February 26, 2010. She later told Under the Dome, “I work from a budget. It is a choice I made to pay the property taxes late and pay the interest charge that goes with it.”
Seems like over the past decade Beth Wood has been making that “choice” quite frequently. Wake County Property Tax records indicate Wood was late in paying not only her 2009 property taxes but also her 2008 property taxes. She was late in 2000 on her Lexus, and in 1998 she was late paying taxes on the same car. As far back as 1995 she was “choosing” to pay her property taxes late.
Remember when that bad, partisan, nasty Republican Les Merritt was auditor and he kept poking his nose into the Democrats’ business? Know, those Democrats who practically own Raleigh and run state government? And we were told that mean old Les was just a Republican lap dog out causing trouble for those poor, hard-working Democrats. And how Beth Wood, despite being appointed by Democrats and answering to Democrats and being supported by Democrats and being elected solely because she was a Democrat in a Democrat year was going be a be a wonderful change of pace in Democrat-controlled Raleigh?
A few weeks ago I noted that under Wood, the State Auditor’s office was publishing fewer audits than her predecessor, Les Merritt. I guess that’s also a choice.
Everyone who voted for Beth Wood or straight-ticket Democrat in 2008 needs to hang their head in shame right now. Go ahead, start hanging. You put this woman in charge of the hen house. She’s supposed to be watching over taxpayer dollars.
She can’t pay her own personal freakin’ taxes on time!
Come back Les! Come back!!!
His Mighty Awesomeness, Les Merritt
