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Former Congressman Bob Etheridge will announce big endorsements for his gubernatorial bid on Monday.
Democratic Congressman David Price and Democratic state Sen. Dan Blue -- who at one point considered entering the governor's race himself -- are the biggest names on the list. Price and Blue will appear at a Monday morning press conference for Etheridge.
State budget writers and representatives of the N.C. Association of Educators exchanged some cross words over the budget and the ed reps' claim that the Senate side is favoring state universities over K-12 classrooms.
The dust up exposed a rift between top Democrats in the legislature and an association that has a history of strong support for the party's candidates, Lynn Bonner reports.
The fight comes at a point in the budget wrangling where key members from each chamber are trying to agree on a budget and a tax package.
NCAE published an "Action Alert" says that Senate budget writers were ready to shortchange K-12 education while supporting public and private universities.
The legislative update quoted president Sheri Strickland saying, "They spend the fall telling the public that Democrats are to be trusted to protect public education. They even come to our headquarters trolling for money and with a straight face talk about the Democratic platform of protecting and professionalizing public education. All the while they are plotting and planning how to gut the classroom in favor of more bureaucracy and unaccountability."
Senators are not happy after the jump.
The N.C. Association of Educators is not making calls through TDM Research.
Cecil Banks, a spokesman for the group, said that they have made calls about the governor's race in the past month using Washington, D.C.-based pollster Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.
He said the calls were not "push polls," in which a poll format is used to float attacks against the opposing candidate. Rather, he said they were for internal use.
To the recipient, it can be hard to distinguish the two. In the latter, a campaign or its supporters are testing various lines of attack to see which are effective.
Over the weekend, a Daily Kos blogger reported receiving a poll from the Fort Worth-based Tyson Organization, operating under the name TDM Research. He wrote that the questions tended to be positive about Beverly Perdue and negative about rival Richard Moore.
Banks said the calls were not done by the NCAE, and Perdue's campaign said they were not aware of them.
Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that the NCAE had used Tyson.
