NC Teachers <3 Bev Perdue
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 25 PRNewswire-USNewswire — After reviewing gubernatorial candidates' responses to a 23-item questionnaire, after evaluating their responses in an hour-long interview, and after examining their past public records, the NCAE Government Relations Commission (GRC) voted today to recommend to the membership of the Association the endorsement of Bev Perdue for Governor of North Carolina.
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Ballots will be distributed to all 70,000 members of the NCAE. The NCAE- PAC Guidelines require that 60% of those voting must concur with GRC's recommendation before the Association has an endorsed candidate.
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NCAE-GRC is recommending Bev Perdue to the membership for the following reasons:— The long working partnership the Association has had with Bev Perdue during her tenure in the North Carolina House, the North Carolina Senate, and as Lieutenant Governor. — Bev Perdue's instrumental leadership in the General Assembly with the Excellent Schools Act of 1996 which launched the drive to move North Carolina teachers salaries to the national average, the Site-Based Decision Making legislation of the early 1990's, the creation of the Teacher Academy, North Carolina's support for National Board Certification, and other issues. — Bev Perdue's commitment to a professional salary schedule for teachers. — Bev Perdue's commitment to improve working conditions for school employees and learning conditions for students. — Bev Perdue's support of the Association's Teacher Cadet program as a mechanism for increasing the pool of potential teachers.
Richard Moore asked the organization earlier this week to delay this process until Perdue was an officially declared candidate. The request was denied, saying that everyone already knows Perdue is running whether she's declared or not.
I'm sure the Lt. Gov. will be happy to have this notch in her belt, assuming the rank and file members go along with the endorsement. The truth is, it would have been a surprising had she not gotten it. Lt. Gov. Perdue used to be a school teacher, and she knows these ropes better than any candidate, Democratic or Republican, in the race.
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In races this close...
These type of endorsements can be the deciding factor.
Moore
should just go ahead and switch to the US Senate race. Come on, Richard, make everybody happy!
but he will not
He has already made that point very clear, I myself could support either candidate but I am going to wait and see before I back either one, though in the Lt Governor race I have signed on with Walter Dalton. However eight years ago Lt Gov Dennis Wicker receivd most if not all of these important endorsements and in the end it meant very little to the voters who nominated Mike Easley, and if memory serves me in the GOP race Leo Daoughtry received most if not all of the right wing endorsement and he also lost the primary.
Endorsements are what a candidate makes of them
Let's watch and see what happens.
Why Dalton? He seems like the ultimate insider to me.
well
I will wait and see also, As for Sen Dalton, I had actually been contaced about a year ago about James Harrell III, and I thought that was who I was to back, but he has yet to enter the race or even given any indications he was going to run. Sen Dalton strikes me as what the state needs for a good Lt Governor. The office does not nearly hold the power it did when Jim Hunt, Jimmy Green and Robert Jodan held it, but if the office is to ever have any importnace again Sen. Dalton is the best candidate. If one of the other candiates wins I believe they will have little effect on either the State of North Carolina or the State Senate. In addition, if Purdue is the Gubenitorial Nominee it is of my opinion that she and Sen Dalton make a much better balance to the voters in November than any of the candidates for that office.
I would much rather see Perdue run for Senate
than Moore.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
Before I wake up ... could it be that she hasn't declared for
gov. because she just might switch races to take on Dole???
Probably not, but as long as I'm dreaming ...
OMG, I would really like promoting Perdue over Liddy.
I doubt it but
Who really know, her delay is has many wondering what she is up to, but I have not heard form any of my connections which gives any hope to her doing anything but run for Governor, having said that Roy Cooper backed out of the race when most thought he was in.
That was exactly my thought ...
hope ... dream when Meek said very clearly yesterday that she was the undeclared gov candidate. Perdue v. Liddy. OMG, indeed. :) That would be a Dem Senate pick up, y'all. I'd bet my last dollar on it.
No chance
All those $ 4 million she's raised in the gear up for Governor cannot be used in a federal election. To my knowledge.
I'm befuddled at why Perdue is not in the race.
It's really reminds me of the old mindset of drawing out attention, politics as usual, fake pre-announcement announcements.
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Perdue isn't in the race yet
because she wants to sit on her lead and slightly higher name recognition. News outlets will try and be impartial and avoid covering too much of what Moore is doing until there is another candidate to cover. We have a dichotomy-based media, and Perdue is doing what any good adviser would tell her to do.
1 Thessalonians 5:21: But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.