Senate District 19 (Cumberland County). • Wesley Meredith, Republican (four-term incumbent). Occupation: Small business owner. Education: Fayetteville Technical Community College, associate’s degree in horticulture technology and management. Career Highlights: General Assembly Republican Majority Whip. Former Fayetteville City Councilman including two years as mayor pro tem. Decorated Army veteran. •…
House District 36 (Southeastern Wake County). • Nelson Dollar, Republican (seven-term incumbent). Occupation: Media and public relations consultant. Education: Appalachian State University, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social sciences. Career highlights: Senior chairman of House Appropriations Committee, vice chairman of Finance, and Health and Human Services committees. Former Wake…
U.S. House District 9 (Anson, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland, Union, and parts of Mecklenburg, Bladen, and Cumberland counties.) Mark Harris, Republican. Occupation: Pastor. Education: Appalachian State University, political science degree. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, master’s and doctor of ministry degrees. Career highlights: North Carolina Baptist Convention president; Southeastern Baptist Theological…
The latest Spectrum Poll shows voters probably aren’t sold on all six proposed constitutional amendments. A number of factors, including coordinated opposition to some and the number of amendments on the ballot, may have caused this split. SurveyUSA queried 1,200…
Senate District 1 (Northeastern North Carolina including Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.) Bob Steinburg, Republican. Occupation: Retired. Education: Upper Iowa University, bachelor’s degree in business administration. Corning Community College, associate’s degree in retail business management. Career highlights: Member North Carolina House…
Senate District 12 (All of Lee and Harnett counties, and part of western Johnston County.) • Jim Burgin, Republican. Occupation: President and owner of C&D Insurance. Partner, John Hiester Automotive. Education: University of Tennessee, bachelor’s degree in business administration. Career Highlights: Two-term Harnett County commissioner. New Horizon Insurance Group…
This story was updated noon Wednesday, Oct. 31. The University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors is expected to confirm Dr. William Roper, dean of UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine and CEO of UNC Health Care, as interim president of the UNC System, sources confirmed to…
Senate District 9, New Hanover County. • Michael Lee. Republican (two-term incumbent). Education: Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. Occupation: Lawyer. Career highlights: Co-chairman of the committee for Appropriations on Education/Higher Education. • Harper Peterson. Democrat. Education: The University of…
N.C. House District 22 (Bladen and most of Sampson counties). • William Brisson, Republican (six-term incumbent). Occupation: Farmer. Career highlights: Former chairman of Bladen County Board of Commissioners, and Bladen County Hospital Board of Trustees and Bladen Medical Center. Chairman of House Appropriations Committee for Health and Human Services,…
Senate District 41 (Northern and western Mecklenburg County). • Jeffrey Tarte, Republican. (Three-term incumbent). Occupation: Founder and chairman emeritus of Applied Revenue Analytics, a multimillion-dollar consulting firm. Education: University of Illinois, economics degree. Attended executive education courses at Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and Harvard University Kennedy School…
