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Re: Perdue: Accentuate the positive

FFC1304 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:14:36 -0400

Please, people, can you NOT SEE what 40+ years of democrat 'leadership' has done to our once great state, through corruption, deceit, manipulation and gigantic sell-outs? Perdue and Moore, both, are beholding to the wrong people in general. The long time beneficiaries of past democrat controls in NC. Change you say? WHEN?

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrat!

Re: Perdue: Accentuate the positive

liam — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:23:37 -0400

And good for you for keeping them up. Perdue can't erase a year and a half of bloody campaigning with one stroke.

Her appeal for positivity is complete garbage. A canned political ploy planned long in advance. How can any of you fall for the "I was watching T.V. the other day and saw all this negativity" story she's feeding you?

She had a professional commercial touting her decision ready and waiting for goodness sake. That took weeks maybe months of planning and scheduling to pull off.

I love Bev Perdue and I really like her campaign. But this is getting ridiculous.

Perdue: Accentuate the positive

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:39:19 -0400

Beverly Perdue has asked her supporters not to go negative either.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate, who announced this morning that she was pulling her negative ads, said her staffers have called her backers and asked that they stay positive.

"We've had Zack, my campaign manager, on the phone this morning calling folks across the state who have endorsed me and letting them know about this decision and asking them to embrace this attitude of positive campaigning," she said. "I'm asking them to walk this path with me."

The State Employees Association of North Carolina had run a full-page ad attacking Richard Moore in a dispute over public records, though it says it is not a campaign ad. The National Education Association has run a positive radio ad about Perdue.

Both groups say that their ads are not campaign ads.

Perdue also left a message on Dome's cell phone around noon asking us to remove our copies of her earlier negative ads from a YouTube channel we run.

"I just saw the post about the negative commercials that I've aired before being up on your site," she said. "Is there any way you could say that I called personally and asked you to take them down? I've taken them down from my site. I really don't want the negative ads out there."

Dome declined to remove the ads.