I’ve been continually impressed by the three new Republican executives on the Council of State: Auditor Dave Boliek, Treasurer Brad Briner and Labor Commissioner Luke Farley.
If I were writing my “future governor” piece again, I’d put all three of them on the list near the top.
I’m not in a position to cover all the ins and outs of what they’re doing in their departments, but when something extraordinary happens I feel like I must speak up.
That’s exactly what Luke Farley has just done.
Farley just sat down with reporters after announcing a new initiative to crack down on a rising wave of “struck-by” workplace deaths tied to the state’s warehousing boom. At the same time, he was able to reinforce his victory last month in clearing a long-running backlog of elevator inspections by tightening management and boosting inspector pay.
The result was a glowing article in, of all places, WRAL under the headline “NC’s labor commissioner vowed to ‘make elevators great again.’ So far, he has”
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