Re: Perdue's freshman year

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:35:33 -0500

We're researching all of the gubernatorial candidates and posting short items as we finish them. Another ongoing series focuses on Bob Orr's Supreme Court decisions.

— RTB

Re: Perdue's freshman year

liam — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:12:00 -0500

Not that I don't care about the nutrition of Craven County's aged, but why exactly are we reading about this?

Perdue's freshman year

estephenson — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:59:17 -0500

Beverly Perdue's freshman initiatives focused on health care.

As a first-term representative in the state legislature, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate obtained funding for senior citizens' nutrition and education programs, a semiautomated defibrillator for Pamlico County’s rescue squad and Craven County’s board on aging.

In all, she sponsored 33 bills in the 1987-88 session of the state House of Representatives, of which 26 were adopted.

She secured more than $3,000 for three education initiatives, a Lenoir County’s Boys and Girls Club, a drug and alcohol abuse education program and a service pairing children of single-parent families with adult mentors.

Perdue also helped decorate Craven County ambulances. She co-sponsored a successful bill to add the word “Craven” to the side of county ambulances.

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Perdue's freshman year