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Bev Perdue drops by
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beverly Perdue stopped by Greenville on her way home to New Bern today to discuss the campaign and the Congressional bailout proposal.
Perdue, the state’s lieutenant governor, said she listened to people express frustration with the instability in the nation’s financial institutions and the congressional bailout proposal during meetings earlier Friday with state employees, advocates for people with developmental disabilities and a labor group.
“There is this sense of, ‘I’m being wronged by the government,’ but then there’s this sense of really understanding that something has to be fixed to salvage the financial backbone of America,” she said.
North Carolinians can take comfort in knowing the major banks that make North Carolina their base of operations are stable, she said. However, they too are seeing drops in their stock prices.
“I think it proves everything can be rattled by an economic crisis,” she said.
North Carolina’s economic woes began with the mass closings of textile and other manufacturers at the beginning of the decade, she said.
“We’ve built those jobs back through education and science and technology and now we are, or we were, fundamentally healthy and on the right track,” Perdue said. “Even in North Carolina in the last six months things have been pretty good but foreclosures have been up in the last 90 days.”
Perdue took an opportunity to highlight her differences from Republican opponent, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCory by pointing out he believes community colleges should stop offering high school equivalency degrees.
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By JB
September 29, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
So she says North Carolina’s “economy is fundementally strong” while unemployment is at a five year high.
Then she says our Banks are strong then the next day the second biggest bank in the State fails?
Could she be more out of touch?
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