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Republican Cherie Berry is embracing her moniker as the Elevator Queen.
A new TV ad posted to her campaign website this week shows her talking from her picture inside the elevator. The 15-second spot starts with the sound of an elevator and touts workplace safety.
Orange County Democrats are hosting a Saturday afternoon rally featuring all Democratic candidates in statewide, contested races -- that would be candidate for governor Walter Dalton and most of the rest of the Council of State candidates.
The Piedmont Rally is from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. in Chapel Hill High School. Democrats from seven surrounding counties were invited.
In the race for Council of State seats, incumbents are showing substantial leads, according to a new poll.
Democratic incumbent June Atkinston was leading Republican John Tedesco by a 44-34 percent margin, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic leaning firm based in Raleigh.
Politicians seeking state office were swarming all over the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham Monday night, taking advantage of a daylong forum hosted by the NC Agribusiness Council to press their talking points.
The event included a couple receptions and symposiums – how to grow an agribusiness and planning for the future – and a forum where candidates were asked a series of four questions on agribusiness buffered by a few minutes of spin.
WAXHAW--The pavement steamed in the summer heat as Dan Forest’s campaign bus rolled into this small town along the state’s southern border for a Fourth of July parade.
On the route, a man wearing a sweat-drenched baseball hat appeared confused. “I thought elections were in the fall. Anyone know who Dan Forest is? What does the lieutenant governor do?” Such is the life of a candidate in North Carolina’s runoff election. It’s lonely – and hot.
Read about the runoff election and see a breakdown on all the races here.
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--Rob Christensen: When Andy Griffith helped rescue the campaign of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Easley in 2000, it was dubbed the “Mayberry Miracle.” Griffith, who died last week, was Tar Heel Democrats’ political ace in the hole, helping them remain competitive in the state while most of the South went Republican.
The second-place finisher in the Democratic labor commissioner primary is asking for a runoff election.
With the formal request, Marlowe Foster will challenge John C. Brooks, the top vote-getter who is seeking a re-election to his former post. Brooks served from 1977 to 1993 as the state's labor commissioner. The three-way May primary didn't allow a candidate to receive more than 40 percent and win outright.
The downballot races in the Democratic primary remain amorphous with huge numbers of undecided voters still looking for a good horse.
Marlowe Foster, a Democratic candidate for Labor Commissioner, announced more endorsements today from political groups and individuals. Foster has backing from the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, the Durham People's Alliance, the Fairmont Committee on Black Affairs, 2008 Labor Commissioner candidate Mary Fant Donnan, state Reps. Deborah Ross and Grier Martin of Wake County, Former state Democratic Party chairman Jerry Meek, state Rep. Tricia Cotham of Charlotte, Transportation Secretary Gene Conti, state Sen. Doug Berger. and Morrisville Council member Steve Rao. Foster, a Pfizer lobbyist from Raleigh, faces John Brooks and Tyrone Richardson in the Democratic primary. Republican Cherie Berry is the incumbent commissioner.
Former state Labor Commissioner John C. Brooks wants his old job back – again.
Brooks has filed for the Democratic nomination for state labor commissioner, a post he held from 1977 until 1993, before losing in the Democratic primary to Harry Payne. Brooks tried a comeback at age 71 four years ago, coming in second in a Democratic primary.
Also running in the Democratic primary is Marlowe Foster, a lobbyist active in Democratic politics.
Another name from the past, attorney Marcus Williams of Lumberton has resurfaced. He is challenging 8th District Congressman Larry Kissell in the primary.
Williams has twice run for the U.S. Senate and once for governor.
Mary Fant Donnan has picked up the endorsement of one of her former opponents in the Democratic primary for state labor commissioner.
Robin Anderson is urging other Democrats to support Donnan in her primary runoff with John Brooks, a former labor commissioner.
The runoff is June 24.
