Gary Pearce

Both democrats have been running for govenor for the last 8 years. both campaigns have broken rules and accepted tainted money. It would be nice if some of these so called unbiased reporters call them on it. Gary Pierce is a democrat anyway. He does not hide it but you have to take what he says with a grain of salt.
Didn't Al gore invent the internet? (sarcasm)

Like fellow democrats, the Edwards', Mr. Moore has difficulty understanding 'rank and file' North Carolinians. Perhaps, he should take his billionairess wife and move to NYC, where he can score big directly ON Wall Street..he seems to expect it through the NC taxayers. Beware of BOTH of these establishment democrats who want to be 'governor'...NC cannot take much more of all this corrupt incompetence...STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrat!

Very interesting. Always fascinating to hear from Gary Pearce on the subject of North Carolina politics. The last point in this interview, about the strategy on the part of Richard Moore's gubernatorial campaign to raise questions about Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue's trustworthiness could be most telling down the road.

For in the opening months of the campaign season, the impression was given that Beverly Perdue was going to be the ultimate "insider" against all challengers. But the Moore campaign's nitpicking at Perdue's excellent record and background could portray the state treasurer as being on the inside rail doing what insiders like to do--question the viability of a candidate who then is cast in the role as an "outsider."

If Moore's people are going to be so generous as to offer Perdue's team an outside lane, she should take it and run flat out for the flag, leaving Moore to have a nice look at the infield passing by. The Perdue campaign--and not the Moore campaign as previously anticipated--might then be viewed by many Democrats as touting the qualities of the true "reform" candidate in this race, her inside-the-Beltway perch as lieutenant governor notwithstanding.

The Moore campaign should quit harping on the lieutenant governor's post-graduate educational experiences and start contributing some ideas as to how rank-and-file North Carolinians can improve their lifelong educational training to meet the new century's challenges in employment and technology.

Moore's strategists may wind up regretting having made so much out of Beverly Perdue's doctoral degree if it reminds a lot of education-hungry adults in North Carolina that they never had a chance to go back and get that master's degree they may have wanted in days gone by.

David McKnight
Durham