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Re: Claims Dept: RGA's 'Typical' ad

mountainman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:02:41 -0400

There is one thing for sure picking perdue you are relentless with your negative attacks just like perdue. Do you think all the states problems come from McCrory??? I don't think that the mayor had anything to do with raleighs nasty corruption and scandels. He wasn't there, but Bev Perdue was there with her corrupt colleages. You compair McCrory to bush, why not compair perdue to easley they are like two peas in a pod and whole state knows it. P.S just expressing my opinion no offense intended

Re: Claims Dept: RGA's 'Typical' ad

pickingperdue — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:23:10 -0400

The Jim Black tie is to McCrory not Perdue!! Black and McCrory are golfing buddies from way back; Black is also Pat's eye doctor, and Pat had nothing but the highest praise for his friend. I don't think anyone will accuse Perdue of a golfing/professional/friendship with Black.
Get real, people, McCrory is no more of a change than GW Bush himself would be.

Re: Claims Dept: RGA's 'Typical' ad

S28117 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:41:10 -0400

Excellent choice.....a truly great endorsement from tne N&O. The winds of change will hopefully prevail with the majority of NC voters.

McCrory endorsed by N&O!

concerned53 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:09:10 -0400

WOW! Way to go N&O! Maybe NC will get the change in leadership that it needs.

Re: Perdue favors broader disclosure

djofraleigh — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:31:51 -0500

Would she favor a broader disclosure regarding her tie breaking vote giving us the Lottery by hook and crook on the Saturday after the Assembly closed? If she would take a lie detector test about the influences on her, and pass, I would vote for her, but not until. Seems to me, it was all planned, with Black being the crook and Perdue the hook. Let Bev Perdue give some broader disclosure about her vote that 'black' Saturday in the Assembly.

Re: Watson apologizes for North Carolina

j1c2kp — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:20:14 -0500

It is long overdue for an apology from Rick Watson to NC taxpayers. All you have to do is google Rick Watson and hold on,it's going to be a bumpy ride.

Re: Watson apologizes for North Carolina

FFC1304 — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:23:03 -0500

Read www.CarolinaJournal.com for MORE on this subject...

Re: Watson apologizes for North Carolina

Proctor — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:23:03 -0500

Let us hope that the Governor's Press Office doesn't underestimate the intelligence of the Governor. Being from Rocky Mount, Gov. Easley knows that Northeastern North Carolina is not only out beyond Capitol Boulevard, in fact it's all the way out to Interstate 95 and beyond.

Just don't rename the Roanoke Rapids country music enterprise the Charlie Daniels Theatre. The traffic would be so heavy going in and out of Scotland Neck that they'd have to build another expressway.

Re: Claims Dept: Perdue on Moore and Parton

disantor — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:52:36 -0500

Insane, I know. The Commission approved funding the theater -- 21.5 million dollars -- without having access to information that Moore had on the (questionable) feasibility of the project to generate enough revenue. It doesn't pass the "red face test" when Moore claims this was out of scope and they didn't need to consider the feasibility study -- just ability to pay! Duh - well, ability to pay -- doesn't that hinge upon... ummm... FEASIBILITY of the project?!! The dome pundits have missed the boat on this one.

Re: Bev Perdue is a Hypocrite

alman — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:40:08 -0500

Everyone is pointing their finger at everyone else. That is how these things go. Perdue points at Moore who points at the City of Roanoke Rapids who points at Parton and now the Scotts. Jones wants it off him so he points to Moore. Now Perdue can point at Betts. Bottom line. Can we possibly imagine how many of these deals - consultants, fundraising, bad investments - there are going on in NC right now? Probably too many to count.

Moore is right - Board of Transportation and the entire department needs to be cleaned up and removed from politics. Has Betts not learned that emails end up in the newspaper? Wonder who all he has raised money from for Perdue?

Roanoke Rapids needs to clean up the situation and put the theatre to use. Did anyone really think people flying down I-95 would stop for a few days at the monstracity that rises out of the flatlands? Scotland Neck, Rocky Mount were all trying to get spin-offs from this deal. What do they have going on and who was involved with projects there?

Bev Perdue is a Hypocrite

alterac — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:54:54 -0500

Perdue's campaign pushed a Roanoke Rapids city official to raise $20,000 for her campaign from Parton.

Perdue said that in December her campaign began telling fundraisers and staffers to steer clear of contributions from people connected to the theater.

She is wrong to attack Moore

Re: The famous feasibility study

Isaac136 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:23:07 -0500

wHAT ABSOLUTE HORSE-HOCKEY. For anyone to pretend that something was witheld, or in some meaningful sense, "not disclosed" when the study was something NEVER before submitted much less ASKED FOR by the local government commission respponsible, ultimately, for the decision on whether to move on this proposal, is the heighth of hypocrisy and studied ignorance.

Find an issue grounded in reality, if you really believe in your candidate. If you really believe in your candidate, can't you do that much?

Re: The famous feasibility study

bluescorpio — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:07:21 -0500

The point is not that Moore is willing to share the feasibility study NOW, but that he did not share it when the Commission was considering the funding or voting on the project. It's even more fishy because was the chair of the commission! Of course he's all for "full disclosure" now that he is running for Governor...

Overstated?

Anglico — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:39:36 -0500

Leave it to the Dome to badly miss the entire and only point of this whole sad story. Perdue's challenge isn't about the merits of the study or the criteria the LGC used. It's simply about full disclosure of information. One person (Moore) had certain information when the Commission voted, the others didn't.

The N&O's conclusion that the Perdue "over-reached" is absurd. The proper conclusion would have been: Moore "under-delivered."

Exactly

Anglico — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:37:16 -0500

Leave it to the Dome to miss the point of the whole debate. This isn't about the merits of the study or the criteria the LGC used. It's about full disclosure of information. The N&O's conclusion that the Perdue is "over-reaching" is absurd. The proper conclusion would have been: Moore is "under-delivering."