On the Democratic side of today’s N.C. School Boards Association gubernatorial debate, Bev Perdue objected to Richard Moore’s plan to encourage the use of public-private partnerships to build schools. (I discuss Moore’s plan here.)

Perdue, who clearly did not understand Moore’s plan, said, “A big new state bureaucracy in Raleigh that owns school buildings in your district without putting a cent up ? that’s the way I read Richard’s plan. That may be a fresh idea, but it sure is a bad idea.”

At what point did Bev starting caring about “big new state bureaucracies?” After all, she helped to create one called the North Carolina Education Lottery.