On Bev!

Here’s a little something about our gal Bev. Purdue!

ON THE DEATH PENALTY!!!

A press release from February 5, 2007 said: "Lt. Governor Perdue believes that until these questions are clarified in the courts that there should be a moratorium on executions."

In 1995, the Charlotte Observer reported on a bill that would have ended use of the gas chamber: "Another death penalty backer, Sen. Beverly Perdue , D-Craven, suggested that doing away with the gas chamber would lessen capital punishment's deterrent value. `I think we should make it painful and torturous,' she said."

COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY!!!!!!!!!

Beverly Perdue claims that, "The state should make an ironclad promise to our kids and their families. If they make good grades and work hard in their communities and stay in school and graduate high school, then tuition money is not gonna be a road block to getting a college education or the skills they need to compete.” [NC School Boards Association Debate, 11-6-07]

Our gal Bev supported tuition increases every term she served in the state Senate, including when she chaired the Higher Education Committee and when she served as Senate Appropriations Chair. In 1993, ol’ Bev led the charge for a 29% tuition increase at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and NC State University. Perdue supported a 5 percent increase in tuition for in-state students at all 16 state universities and sponsored a 24 percent tuition increase at UNC-CH and NCSU. She defended her budget provision in the media, saying, “' The students have openly admitted that it’s beer and party money,’ said Perdue, a Democrat from New Bern."

HIGHWAY TRUST FUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In an interview with News 14 reporter Tim Boylan the day of her gubernatorial campaign kickoff, Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue discussed transportation funding in North Carolina. She said, "The first thing I'd do is stop the transfer from the Highway Trust Fund to the General Fund, I think that's a really critical first solution."

Beverly Perdue sponsored the 1989 legislation (H 399) which mandated that Highway Trust Fund money be transferred to the General Fund each year. Specifically, the legislation reads, "in each fiscal year the State Treasurer shall transfer the sum of one hundred seventy million dollars of the taxes deposited in the [Highway] Trust Fund to the General Fund."

SMART START!!!!!!!!!!!

Her television commercial, "Love and Faith," claims that in the General Assembly, she was "leading the fight for Smart Start."

In 1995, Beverly Perdue's hometown newspaper, the New Bern Sun Journal, reported that: "Jones County’s Smart Start program could be in jeopardy. Perdue said she has never been a strong supporter of the early childhood health and education program that Hunt championed in his first year in office. Smart Start cost $20 million to install 23 pilot programs in its first year, and is expected to grow to $500 million by 2000, she said. 'I don’t think North Carolina can support that bureaucracy,' she said." [New Bern Sun Journal, 1-24-95]



That’s our gal, Bev. She’s all over the place!