Odds and ends
* The General Assembly is scheduled to meet from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday. If all goes according to plan (yeah, right) they'll adjourn sine die by noon.
* Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue says she's done for the year presiding over the Senate. Basnight praised her service as serving "with distinction, honor and an incredible respect for all people" and asked the body to give her a round of applause.
Perdue said thanks this way:
Thank you very much. I just said to Sen. Basnight, regardless of those wonderful words, which I deeply, deeply appreciate, I wanted to remind Sen. Hoyle that I will never forget when I was trying to get the appropriations chairmanship and he told Sen. Basnight not to let me have it. So I want to thank all of you all for the friendship and for the privilege of serving with you and for you and God speed to all of you and good luck and god bless all of North Carolina.
That bit about Hoyle was something of an inside joke, or ribbing, or something - but it didn't seem meant to be mean.
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