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Ok, Bev

Isaac136 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:16:58 -0400

Glad you straightened out your p.o.v. on the mental versus physical health issue. But dang I wish I had more faith that you actually had a firm grip on the realities beneath the issues you know are important. Had you been truly invested in the subject wouldn't we have been able to see or hear that in your response during the original exchange?

I would dearly love to believe in a leader, but I can no more convince myself that you are a leader than I can that David Hoyle cares about ethics when he casts his votes, Tony Rand cares about open meetings or Marc Basnight won't be calling the shots when you take office.

Re: Perdue: Mental health not separate

drhammond — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:37:51 -0400

I swear, this woman is going to make me vote for a Republican.

Marsha V. Hammond, PhD: Clinical Licensed Psychologist, Asheville/ Waynesville, NC: hammondmv@netzero.com
NC mental health reform blogspot: http://madame-defarge.blogspot.com/

Re: Perdue: Mental health not separate

FFC1304 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:20:24 -0400

She's SO ingrained in the flipflopping demorackkk regime, she doesnt know what her involvement is on anything...she's like a lawyer - if her mouth is moving, chances ARE she's lying!

Re: Perdue: Mental health not separate

tangoz — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:20:57 -0400

Perdue really needs to stop debating. She is Pat's best weapon in this election to the Governship. Oh wait I am supporting McCrory, keep talking Bev.

Ms Flip Flop's health care lies

concerned53 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:47:51 -0400

Her quote from last night's debate:
When Republican Pat McCrory noted that Perdue has called herself a "health leader" in the state, she responded: "Physical health, not mental health, Pat. There's a real difference."

Come on N&O, call her on it

Perdue: Mental health not separate

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:08:25 -0400

Beverly Perdue says mental health is not separate from physical health.

In response to a post earlier this morning, spokesman David Kochman said that she was not saying that mental health and physical health are different things during a debate at WRAL last night.

"To clarify, Bev was talking about her responsibilities as chair of the Health and Wellness Trust Fund not extending to mental health," he wrote Dome. "In most of North Carolina's policy discussions, mental health has been cordoned off in its own separate category. But she's the one candidate who has repeatedly said that the only way to fix the system is to stop treating mental and physical healthcare as two separate systems."

He pointed to a section of Perdue's campaign Web site that echoes this thought.

"My background in health care tells me that it makes no sense to separate mental from physical health care," Perdue says on the site.

Later in the day, Republicans also pointed to the same section to criticize Perdue.

"Which is it, Bev?" said N.C. GOP chairwoman Linda Daves in a statement. "Is there a difference between mental health care and physical health care or not?"