Moore meets supporters for breakfast

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:30:00 -0400

Richard Moore ate breakfast with supporters at the State Farmer's Market in Raleigh.

Kicking off the last 48 hours of the campaign, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate sat down for a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit with a dozen backers at the Farmer's Market Restaurant this morning.

Business was otherwise slow, with just a handful of other Moore supporters at other tables nearly matched by reporters and camera crews.

Mike Rogers, 51, a vice president at Cree, came to the restaurant at the invitation of Moore staffer Stephanie Dorko. A Republican who switched to unaffiliated to vote for Moore in the primary, Rogers said he's liked Moore since the two were on a business flight together to Boston several years ago.

"I really think he connects well with all people," he said.

At another table, Dorothea Dix park advocate Greg Poole was looking over aquarium plans with two park planners, while Moore spoke with Liggett Vector chief financial officer Bill Marks, among others.

Rogers and Poole have given $4,000 to Moore; Marks, $500.

Perdue's abortion record attacked

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:14:13 -0400

Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue's record on abortion is being criticized by her Democratic opponent.

"I am uncomfortable with Beverly Perdue's wavering position on choice," writes Stephanie Dorko, finance director for state Treasurer Richard Moore, who faces Perdue in next May's Democratic primary for governor. "Over the course of her public career, she has taken a variety of conflicting positions on a women’s right to choose."

Dorko wrote the email in response to receiving an invitation to join Women for Perdue, Rob Christensen reports.

Dorko wrote that Perdue, as Senate Appropriations chair in 1995, cut the abortion fund for poor women by 96 percent. She quoted a Charlotte Observer editorial which said her 1995 performance shows she "lets politics, not principle govern her performance."

More after the jump.