Press Day And Announcement Rallies

Monday January 28th, 2008 was a very busy day. I met Bud Lee, our video camera expert, at 6:00 AM in Bertie County, and headed out for the first event. That was an interview on the Talk of the Town TV and radio show in Greenville with Henry Hinton.

Next we held the campaign's first press conference at the Pitt County Courthouse. Joe Avery, Republican Chairman for 2nd District, took the entire day to help and was the man who introduced me at the events. Thank you Joe. That's Joe on the left below with Bud filming.




My speech of this day was focused on my key issue in this campaign, education. I used as example Angela McGlowan, author of "Bamboozled" and I quoted some key passages from chapter 3 of her great book.





After the speech, we met with the press representatives and answered questions. All day long we had great press turnout and a number of articles were written. The ones that are online are shown on the campaign web site under "Articles". The essence of the speech is included here in my campaign policy statement from late last year.






There were two more press conferences that day, one at Tarboro at Edgecombe Community College and one at Elizabeth City at the Museum of the Albemarle.




Edgecombe Community College Fleming Auditorium Lobby




View Of The Bay From Museum Of The Albemarle


We have the video of the "Talk of the Town" segment with Henry Hinton as well as Bud Lee's video of the 3 press conferences and we will be posting that shortly. It was a fun day.