Jones: Adams will join Perdue team

Rep. Alma Adams is in the running for a Perdue post.

The Greensboro Democrat's name has been raised several times for a possible appointment to the cabinet of Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue.

The most recent tip comes from the Greensboro News-Record's Inside Scoop column, which quotes Rep. Earl Jones, also a Greensboro Democrat.

"She probably will get offered a position by Perdue," Jones told the newspaper.

Adams had no comment, but she would be an interesting pick. During the Democratic primary, she cut a TV ad defending Perdue against charges of not opposing racism strongly enough by state Treasurer Richard Moore.

She also was one of the prominent critics of the diversity of Perdue's original transition team.

The News-Record notes N.C. Spin's claim that Adams is in the running for head of the state Department of Administration.

Update: Adams, an art professor, may also be considered for secretary of the state Department of Cultural Resources.

Previously: Names in the mix for Perdue's Cabinet

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Re: Jones: Adams will join Perdue team

Submitted by htkirbys on December 5, 2008 - 12:58pm.

When Perdue claimed the Democratic nomination in her Raleigh victory party, she singled out Adams for special thanks. Richard Moore's campaign had put out both TV and radio ads (the latter aimed specifically at African-American radio stations) making very farfetched suggestions that Perdue was a racist. The silliest was to try to make her seem responsible for baseball caps adorned with the Confederate flag that were for sale at the truck stop in Georgia, which a stepson of hers owned. The purpose of the ads by the Moore campaign was to split off the black vote from Perdue. The ads backfired, since they portrayed African-Americans as stupid enough to believe any such thing; Moore's ads were themselves racist.

Alma Adams vigorously defended her friend, Bev Perdue. And after the primary was over, she suggested that Moore should "hide under a rock for all the dirt he did."

For her integrity, courage, loyalty, and effectiveness as a legislator, Adams certainly deserves a place in Perdue's cabinet.

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Re: Jones: Adams will join Perdue team

Submitted by domewatcher on December 2, 2008 - 6:51am.

Rep. Adams looks so nice in her hat!

It’s a shame that hats are not as fashionable as they once were. I can remember back in the 1940’s and 1950’s when women wore hats most of the time, and especially to church on Sunday. Easter Sunday was the height of hat fashion as every woman pulled out her favorite “Easter Bonnet.”

It gave you something to do during the sermon. While the preacher was wailing away us men could study the women’s hats. Most hats had a fish net with all sorts of stuff stuck into it. And many hats had several big bird feathers. And they were real bird feathers as fake bird feathers had not been invented by Al Gore yet. I sat in the rear, in the sinner’s row, and loved to gaze across the congregation of hats. It was like visiting a turkey farm. All those feathers bobbling up and down. The gobbling came later, on the ride home for not paying attention to the preacher.

I cleaned out my mother’s attic many years ago and found all her old hats. They brought back many memories. She did have one I kept, a big felt hat with a wide brim and lots of feathers…..really weird. I wear it when I visit Chapel Hill. It makes me fit right in.

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