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7:20 Text available online via Binker or Dome.

7:22 After pledging to spend every federal dollar available, Perdue says the recovery money and every contract of the state will be online. #transparency #ncsos #ncbudget

7:23 “Everything is on the table. … Truth in budgeting time is here.”

7:24 “In the budget I present next week we will reduce and cut state government programs and services that many, including me, know have been effective but which, in these times, we simply cannot afford.”

7:25 “We will increase per pupil spending.”

7:27 “Seamless learning, pre-K through 20, that’s the goal.”

7:32 Perdue pledges open, ethical government and calls on legislators to meet that standard, too.

7:34 “Sheroes” marks the low point of the speech but is quickly followed by introducing Donna Dent, Winston-Salem flight attendant from the Miracle on the Hudson flight.

Nothing on the agency-cutting BRAC, some talk about transparency. The budget will be interesting to see. Cutting programs that are effective but raising per pupil spending. Also, no mention of the lottery funds raid or higher taxes.