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Re: Perdue's change of birthdate

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:22:00 -0400

Two posts deleted for being in poor taste.

— RTB

Re: Perdue's change of birthdate

Gideon_S_Band — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:38:13 -0400

I can't think of a woman alive that probably hasn't lied about her age at some point.

This is news?

We should apply it everyday

Anglico — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:19:24 -0400

and the outcome of that analysis would be similar . . . planted stories masking hidden agendas . . . from people who ought to know better. Or something like that.

Re: Perdue's change of birthdate

twoshadesofblue — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:40:58 -0400

Speaking of bias, should we apply "The Raleigh Soup" analysis to "Under the Dome" today?

Re: Perdue's change of birthdate

Isaac136 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:33:33 -0400

Thenk yew~

Re: Perdue's change of birthdate

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:19:44 -0400

The person making that grammatical mistake was ... me? I?

Uh, mistakes were made.

It's been corrected.

— RTB

Re: Perdue's change of birthdate

tnixon8084 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:08:49 -0400

Dead men tell no tales!

Re: Perdue's change of birthdate

Isaac136 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:54:59 -0400

"making him seven months younger than SHE"

Come on now. You guys know better. Just because the spokesman was grammatically OFF ("somebody older than him" should have been somebody older than HE") doesn't mean that it's ok for you.

Don't make me report this to James Kilpatrick.

Perdue's change of birthdate

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:47:51 -0400

How old is Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue?

In recent years, she's said she was born on Jan. 14, 1947. But older news sources say she was born in 1948.

The most notable is her Ph.D. dissertation, which says in a brief biographical sketch that she was born in 1948. Files at the University of Florida, where she studied in the early '70s, also say 1948.

A Perdue spokesman confirmed she was born in 1947, but he said she changed the year to please her first husband.

At the time she wrote her dissertation, she was married to Gary Perdue, an attorney. He was born on Oct. 6, 1947, making him seven months younger than she.

"At that time, it was the early '70s, it was something that was important to her husband — and to the marriage — not to be married to somebody older than him," said spokesman David Kochman.

The Perdues divorced in 1994. Gary Perdue died in 1997.