U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, a Farmville Republican, is facing Republican and Democratic challengers who are veterans, Rob Christensen reports.
Joe McLaughlin, an Onslow County commissioner, last week announced he would challenge Jones in the GOP primary. McLaughlin has been a critic of Jones' opposition to continued U.S. military involvement in Iraq. McLaughlin, a financial planner, is a retired major in the 82nd Airborne.
On the Democratic side, Marshall Adame, a former defense department contractor from Jacksonville, is campaigning against Jones. Adame is a retired Marine who served three years in Iraq as part of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Two of his sons served in Iraq.
Adame said Jones’ opposition to the war does not make him acceptable to Democrats. Adame told one Democratic group that Jones had supported Bush 86 percent of the time.
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