Garrett Perdue interned for Zeb Alley.
The son of Gov. Beverly Perdue had a summer internship with one of the state's top lobbyists in 1998, when he was a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Alley said he met the younger Perdue through his mother, then a state senator and a friend of his. Garrett then approached him about an internship.
He recalled him as one of the better interns he's had.
"He worked on whatever I told him to work on — mostly grunt work. You know how that goes," he said. "I might have paid him, but I didn't pay him much."
He said Perdue "did very well" and seemed to be interested in politics.
"I haven't heard much from him since," he said.
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Re: Garrett Perdue's internship
That's politics. But, if he wants to lobby, that should be his right as an individual and not bound to limitations by namesake. If any of you have ever worked in state government for any amount of time, you know that it usually isn't what you know or how well you performed your duties, but who you know for advancement or hire (for the higher grade positions). There are few exceptions though.