Beverly Perdue's freshman initiatives focused on health care.
As a first-term representative in the state legislature, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate obtained funding for senior citizens' nutrition and education programs, a semiautomated defibrillator for Pamlico County’s rescue squad and Craven County’s board on aging.
In all, she sponsored 33 bills in the 1987-88 session of the state House of Representatives, of which 26 were adopted.
She secured more than $3,000 for three education initiatives, a Lenoir County’s Boys and Girls Club, a drug and alcohol abuse education program and a service pairing children of single-parent families with adult mentors.
Perdue also helped decorate Craven County ambulances. She co-sponsored a successful bill to add the word “Craven” to the side of county ambulances.
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Re: Perdue's freshman year
January 31, 2008 - 6:35pm — ryanteaguebeckwithWe're researching all of the gubernatorial candidates and posting short items as we finish them. Another ongoing series focuses on Bob Orr's Supreme Court decisions.
— RTB
Re: Perdue's freshman year
January 31, 2008 - 6:12pm — liamNot that I don't care about the nutrition of Craven County's aged, but why exactly are we reading about this?