“[Roy’s] a leader who always wants to help someone.” – Mary Lou Clinton, a Nash County native and Roy’s high school classmate
RALEIGH — Last week, Roy Cooper continued his “Make Stuff Cost Less” tour, holding an event in Rocky Mount to discuss how he will work in the U.S. Senate to make life more affordable for working North Carolinians.
Nashville Graphic: Roy Cooper makes Rocky Mount stop
Nancy West-Brake
- The stop was part of Cooper’s statewide “Make Stuff Cost Less Tour,” in which he addresses the need to make regular living expenses like groceries, childcare, health care and utilities more affordable and how he will work to address those needs should he be elected to the U.S. Senate.
- Peterson, who said she was living on a fixed income while raising her three-year-old niece, stressed the need for affordable child care and said that Cooper “has delivered for working families. We need him in this state.”
- Clinton, who was one of at least eight Northern Nash High School Class of 1975 graduates present to support their former classmate, said that ‘Coop’ was “athletic, smart, compassionate and caring then and he’s the same way today. He’s a leader who always wants to help someone.”
- “I have friends here who I have had all my life,” Cooper said, appreciatively, saying that he was grateful for their presence. He also thanked all those present for coming and said that the reason he was running for the U.S. Senate was to represent them.
- Regarding his Senate race opponent, Michael Whatley, who he called a “DC Insider,” Cooper blamed Whatley, “who lobbied for big oil and utility companies” as one responsible for current Washington-based “reckless policies.”
- “What we need is a United States Senator who is going to fight for people who are having to deal with stuff costing too much- not the corporations-not the billionaires that Washington DC is worried about now,” Cooper said.
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