Friday, March 27, 2009
Gov. Perdue tells UNC president to shut it
Posted by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM
OK, not exactly. But, she did have a little chat with him after he publicly chastised her budget, calling it "ludicrous."
Gov. Bev Perdue is miffed at some of the comments that University of North Carolina president Erskine Bowles made about her budget proposal and has called him to let him know.At a legislative meeting this week, Bowles described as “ludicrous” some of the governor's suggestions that the UNC system could get by with eliminating just 73 jobs during the budget crisis.
“I thought his comments were harsh and I called him and told him that,” Perdue told reporters Thursday after speaking to a business conference in Raleigh.
Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer article here.
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