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Updated: The conservative Americans for Prosperity is pushing its members to send emails letters calling for the state to drop plans to sell the 325-acre Dorothea Dix campus to the City of Raleigh.
Under Gov. Bev Perdue, the state has inched closer to a deal with the city to sell the downtown property that previously served as a state mental hospital.
The land would be turned into a park managed by North Carolina State University, but AFP wants the land sold on the open market.
Gov. Bev Perdue denounced a television ad being run by Americans for Prosperity about education spending, saying it "muddies the water."
"I'm asking them to pull this ad down, to stop trying to distort the truth," Perdue said this morning.
Dallas Woodhouse, Americans for Prosperity state director, said the ad is "100 percent accurate and truthful," and of course, they're going to keep running it. "We're going to continue to tell the truth about what this budget did," he said.
In what is likely a prelude to next year's governor's race, former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory is trying to drum up support for a legislative override to Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of the health care bill.
McCrory has recorded an audio message asking voters to contact to their lawmakers and ask them to override the veto,
The message is being paid for by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group that fought passage of the health care overhaul bill by the Democratic Congress which was supported by President Barack Obama. McCrory had toured the state with the group, fighting the measure's passage.
The message is being sent to home telephones, and is also is being distributed over the Internet through the social media such as Facebook, according to Dallas Woodhouse, the group's director.
McCrory, who lost to Perdue in 2008, is widely expected to challenge her next year.
“A majority of states have challenged the worst parts of ObamaCare, and two federal judges have agreed that the bill is unconstitutional,” McCrory said in the recorded message. “The N.C. General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a bill to protect North Carolinians from a federal government to buy health insurance and other unconstitutional parts of Obamacare.”
“However, after a trip to Washington and meetings with big government liberals including President Obama, Governor Perdue vetoed this common sense legislation,” McCrory said.
Actually, Perdue took the step after state Attorney General Roy Cooper said the bill passed by the legislature was unconstitutional and would also jeopardize federal health funding.
