Most of the executive-branch offices comprising North Carolina’s Council of State are either open seats in 2024 or will feature highly competitive races in both the primary and general elections. But none has attracted as many candidates as lieutenant governor. GOP incumbent Mark Robinson is running for governor. Fourteen North Carolinians want to succeed him...
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and US Rep. Dan Bishop were guest speakers at the annual CPAC conference.
An attorney from Eden is the latest to declare his candidacy on the Republican ticket for North Carolina’s next lieutenant governor.
If you haven’t experienced a Mark Robinson speech, you’re missing a gifted orator. Watching the Republican lieutenant governor candidate is like being transported back to an old-time revival. At a Back the Blue rally a few weeks ago, I watched him captivate the crowd with his booming voice and inspirational message about freedom and being a black...
RALEIGH — The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at beefing up the state’s rainy day fund. “It takes North Carolina from frankly one of the weaker savings regiments of any state to what the Pew Center believes will be one of the strongest,” said Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, the sponsor of...
Democratic challenger Linda Coleman repeatedly attempted Tuesday night to paint a dismal picture of public education in North Carolina, but Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest countered with a list of Republican spending increases and expanded school choice options that he said put the state on the right track. The candidates squared off in an hour-long...
Will the North Carolina lieutenant governor’s race in 2016 be a rematch of 2012? That’s what one Democratic primary candidate is hoping. Linda Coleman, whose political experience includes terms as a Wake County commissioner and state representative, lost four years ago to Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest by 6,858 votes of 4.3 million cast statewide,...
Sarah Curry on major revenue & spending pots in N.C.'s operating & capital budget; Dan Forest on priorities as Lt. Gov; John Blust urges GOP not to abuse power; Eric Kniffin on Obamacare & religious freedom; John Hood on restructuring state government
North Carolina’s lieutenant governor is officially considered the second-highest office in the state. In practice, it probably ranks no higher than 10th.
The Republican primary for lieutenant governor has just gotten a lot more interesting -- a statement that until recently might have been an oxymoron.
