RALEIGH, N.C. — The most iconic thing about the North Carolina labor commissioner’s office is going down: His mug on elevator inspection certificates.
Those pictures — the ones that stare at you while you try to avoid eye contact with strangers — had become such a mainstay North Carolina life and politics that Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson’s predecessor, Cherie Berry, was widely known as “The Elevator Queen.”
Dobson, who won office in 2020 after Berry retired, said he never really embraced the practice. So when the certification form was redesigned to add a new sentence, he dropped the picture.
Berry, who has moved to Ohio, took the news hard.
“Whaaaaaaat?” she said Monday, when reached by phone in a grocery store checkout line.
“I think it’s a mistake, but hey that’s just me,” Berry said.
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