In YouTube videos addressed to state workers and teachers, Gov. Beverly Perdue pitched herself as a leader and fighter during the state budget negotiations.
Perdue's videos, which encourage state workers to submit money-saving ideas to a new Web site, each include an introduction in which she makes a case for the state budget.
"Although the final budget was far from perfect, those efforts restored hundreds of millions of dollars to education and protected thousands of teacher jobs all over the state," Perdue said in the teachers video.
The state budget requires schools systems across the state to cut $225 million. Lawmakers and Perdue have said systems should be able to preserve teacher jobs by moving funds around and using federal stimulus dollars. Some systems say the stimulus money doesn't do enough and is only temporary.
"I've been calling on school superintendents all across North Carolina to use those federal recovery monies to keep teachers in the classrooms," Perdue said.
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Re: Perdue videos tout her budget fight
Bev makes Rocky look like a pansy because she is a fighter. She saved the classroom and stood up for the children. That's what a fighter does. Fight! Fighting for the children and the American Way of Life. Fighting for the teachers. Fighting for the union. Fighting for the teacher's jobs. Fighting for assistants. Fighting makes you strong. Rocky was strong even though he may or may not have been a pansy. Bev is a fighter. I love a fighter. I'm not a quitter. I'm a fighter. We must persevere and be fighters. But not fighters in school. Fighting in school is bad. But fighting for schools is good. Let's make that differentiation. Teach the kids not to fight until they are adults who know how to pick a good fight. Sometimes a good run is better than a bad fight. Know when to fight. Know when to stand up for the classroom. A tax increase is always good. Fighting for more taxes is also good because higher taxes make us strong.