A few moments from Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue inaugural ball tonight:
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler was the only member of the delegation on his flight from D.C. He has a 4-year-old daughter, Island, so a female governor has special significance.
"That means my daughter can do anything she sets her mind to."
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State Rep. Alice Graham Underhill was showing around her niece, 20-year-old Grace Ann Brooks, a junior studying communication at N.C. State University.
She attended an inaugural as an infant in 1989 when her grandfather, then-Commissioner of Agriculture Jim Graham, was sworn in.
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Labor Comissioner Cherie Berry's three daughters were in town from Charlotte; Toledo, Ohio; and D.C. She wore her grandmother's crystal necklace and earrings.
There are still 2 Republicans on the Council of State, with Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler.
"We can still get a second to a motion," she joked.
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Mecklenburg County Commissioners Jennifer Roberts and Harold Cogdell drove up for the festivities.
Perdue's Republican opponent last year was Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory.
"We thought it was important to open a new channel with the governor's office." Cogdell said.
— Mark Johnson
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