SEANC targets Gibson, Goforth

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on May 27, 2009 - 10:49am.
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SEANC is running ads against two state lawmakers.

The State Employees Association of North Carolina will run radio ads criticizing Democratic Reps. Pryor Gibson of Anson County and Bruce Goforth of Buncombe County.

The ads criticize the legislators' votes for a fix to the State Health Plan that would raise costs for state workers.

"Representative Bruce Goforth voted to raise the cost of health care for the State’s working families, making North Carolina forty-ninth in its employees' family coverage, while the State had a no-bid contract with the non-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield that pays their CEO over 4 million dollars," one ad notes.

The ads are another salvo in an ongoing fight between SEANC, which represents 55,000 state workers, and the legislature during a tight budget year.

Gibson told The Insider that he is married to a state employee and could not understand the logic of the attack.

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Re: SEANC targets Gibson, Goforth

Submitted by j1c2kp on May 28, 2009 - 2:46pm.

Meant solve this issue, not sove, but everytime I try to edit I end up with the same post twice.

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Re: SEANC targets Gibson, Goforth

Submitted by j1c2kp on May 28, 2009 - 2:43pm.

RTB I have been hearing this for a long time, at least since around 1995 or so. Where does Gibson reside? Where do his children go to school? Exactly where does his wife work? Just because someone maintains an address somewhere does not make them a resident. Why can't these questions be answered once and for all? If it is true that he lives in Raleigh, wife works in Raleigh, kids schooled in Raleigh then he is not living in Anson and why is he being protected? Who was the other guy that maintained a residence for district purposes but didn't actually live in that mobile home but lived in the really nice house somewhere else. Mitchell or something? Why is it different for Gibson? Maybe the N & O since they are really in the investigative journalism mode right now will sove this issue.

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Re: SEANC targets Gibson, Goforth

Submitted by GhostRide on May 28, 2009 - 12:06pm.

Sounds like Gibson already has experience screwing over state employees....

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Re: SEANC targets Gibson, Goforth

Submitted by BitterEXdemocrat on May 27, 2009 - 5:03pm.

WWNC 570am in Asheville is running the Goforth ads every hour...great to hear this in WNC ! ! Wondering which stations the Gibson ad is on?

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Re: SEANC targets Gibson, Goforth

Submitted by BitterEXdemocrat on May 27, 2009 - 5:00pm.

Pryor Gibson is gaining pace everyday on the MOST corrupt list...which state dept does his wife work in? Where do his children attend school, Raleigh or Anson Co? In the past, he has refused to answer these basic questions.

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