Producer: not available
Running Time: 00:30
Debut Date: 10/14/2008
Ad Buy: not available
Cost: not available
Summary: The RGA asserts that Perdue's record of raising taxes and hindering job growth makes her ill-equipped to handle North Carolina's economic crisis.
Script of "Crisis" (TV)
ANNOUNCER [v/o]: North Carolina faces an economic crisis. And, for 21 years, Bev Perdue has simply pushed the status quo. Perdue presided over $6 billion in new taxes, voted to increase the gas and sales tax.
Now unemployment is up 57 percent since Perdue became lieutenant governor. Two hundred eighty people lose their jobs every day. Eighty thousand jobs lost to China.
So, what's "Status Quo Bev"'s plan for the future?
(Text on screen: Paid for by the Republican Governors Association)
BEVERLY PURDUE [on screen]: I would do exactly what's been done before.
(Text on screen: Call Beverly Perdue 919-733-7350; Paid For By The Republican Governors Association)
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