RALEIGH - Two top aides to Gov. Beverly Perdue should resign their positions or be fired over poor performance, the head of North Carolina's Republican Party said Monday.
Crime Control & Public Safety Secretary Reuben Young should resign for failing to investigate claims that former Gov. Mike Easley ordered e-mail messages deleted to prevent them from becoming public, North Carolina GOP Chairman Tom Fetzer said. Young was Easley's chief legal adviser.
"You can't be a reform governor who's really committed to ethics and transparency if you keep people like that around," Fetzer said.
Correction Department Secretary Alvin Keller should step down because the state still has too few parole officers a year after the Perdue administration promised to ease the shortage, Fetzer said.
There have been several killings and kidnappings in the past two years involving offenders who were supposed to be overseen by the state's strained probation and parole system. Perdue has supported filling nearly 150 vacant positions in the department to better monitor offenders, but officials have said recruiting officers was difficult because of the low pay and dangerous duties.
Spokesmen for Perdue and the Correction Department did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
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