RALEIGH — Incumbent Leo Daughtry has served 10 terms in the state House and two terms in the North Carolina Senate. He has served as the House majority leader and was a gubernatorial candidate. Challenging Daughtry is Dennis Nielsen, a retired Air Force colonel who twice ran as a Republican for state Senate District 11 and lost.
RALEIGH — Mark Bibbs says he would be a more effective legislator for the citizens of Wilson and Pitt counties than seven-term incumbent Rep. Jean Farmer-Butterfield. But lingering in the background of the Democratic primary for the 24th District of the N.C. House of Representatives is a question of whether Bibbs actually lives in the district he wants to represent.
RALEIGH — Voters in the May 6 Republican primary for state House District 15 will choose between incumbent Phil Shepard, a two-term legislator who is a minister and civil service retiree, and Jim Morton, a farmer and retired educator running primarily on parochial issues.
Paul Chesser reviews Michael Lewis' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game; W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, 288pp., $24.95
