In the Greensboro News & Record‘s Capital Beat blog today, by Mark Binker:
[Lt. Gov. Bev] Perdue is serving her second term as Lt. Governor and has had the opportunity to break a tie in the Senate only once, but it was a doozy. Perdue’s vote essentially created the state lottery.
Today, the lottery is not performing up to expectations and has already helped send a couple folks to jail.
So, in hindsight, does she regret her vote?
Perdue started her answer talking about education, but eventually got to, “…I’ve never regretted it at all.” She pledged to watch how the lottery funds are used and make sure they didn’t supplant tax dollars.
“The more money that we have to unsure that every child in this state has a chance to be somebody is good money,” she continued later.
