Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue won her new office by promising Charlotte-funded goodies to the rest of the state at the expense of the banking town, writes columnist Tara Servatius in the latest edition of Creative Loafing magazine in Charlotte.
She writes:
The attitude in Raleigh has long been that Charlotte can afford to pay all the state's bills, plus the tab for the stuff that the state is supposed to fund in Charlotte. This same attitude was practically a campaign theme for Perdue.
Perdue, a Democrat, ran a television ad warning that her Republican opponent, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, wanted to help only his city.
The commercial aired in eastern TV markets and to some degree elsewhere in the state but not in Charlotte. Perdue made similar comments in her stump speeches.
At the same time, she appealed to Charlotte voters with pledges to open an office there and ensure a stronger relationship between that city and the state capital.
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Re: Perdue to Charlotte: Drop dead?
November 13, 2008 - 3:32pm — george32I am looking forward to fellow Carolina grad Servatius posting a summary of total revenues collected from all sources by NC from Mecklenburg and total expenditures in Mecklenburg over, say, a five year period to prove that the "attitude" she found in Raleigh is backed by facts. If the blind hog has found an acorn and it is true, then perhaps more money should be spent on education if Perdue and not Mayor raise the per capital bonded indebtedness Utility carried the county. IF it is not true then Servatus is just blathering like the leader of the Dittoheads down in Florida.