RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- As South Carolina announced a new tire manufacturing plant expected to create 1,600 jobs, officials in North Carolina are pointing fingers at each other over because they failed to land the deal.
Republican Senate leader Phil Berger on Thursday blamed the administration of Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue for losing the plant, saying the deal fell prey to pay-to-play politics. The Associated Press reported last week that the Brunswick County land proposed for the project was owned by a state legislator and Democratic donors who had given more than $52,000 to Perdue's campaigns.
North Carolina Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco says Perdue did all she could to secure the deal. Crisco says Senate Republicans are responsible for failing to support the more than $90 million incentives package sought by the company.
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