When Garrett worked for Bev

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on April 1, 2009 - 10:42am.
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Garrett PerdueGarrett Perdue worked for his mom in 2001.

The son of Gov. Beverly Perdue went to work for the then-lieutenant governor, according to a Feb. 14, 2001, article in the N&O:

Another top state official, Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, has turned to her son, Garrett, to help her with speech-writing and other office duties. But Garrett Perdue, 24, "is just helping out" before he heads to law school in the fall, and he does not work for the state, according to Perdue spokesman Derek J. Chernow. Whatever financial arrangement exists is "between him and his mom," Chernow said.

In the fall of 2001, he started law school at UNC-Chapel Hill, graduating in May of 2004.

Update: According to Beverly Perdue's 2001 mid-year campaign finance report, Garrett was paid $1,378.38 from campaign funds for his work.

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Re: When Garrett worked for Bev

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on April 1, 2009 - 10:55am.

The son of the governor has a job as a lobbyist with the state's biggest and most politically connected law firm, yet neither he nor it has said who his clients are or what he does. I think that's a worthy subject.

Don't worry. The House will start debating the smoking ban soon, and I'll move on...

— RTB 

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Re: When Garrett worked for Bev

Submitted by captsfufp on April 1, 2009 - 10:49am.

I'm not sure I get the reason for the dozen or so posts on this subject. Unless the point of all this is to accuse Mr. Perdue of being granted a job with little to no work based solely on his familial relationship to the governor in an attempt by Womble to curry illegal/unethical favor with said governor...then either come out and make the accusation or leave the man alone. Just b/c you have a famous last name doesn't give everyone an excuse to stalk you.

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