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Straw poll picks Blue for Senate
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2009-05-04 11:49
A straw poll recommended Rep. Dan Blue move to the Senate.
About 50 people at a forum sponsored by the Raleigh-Wake Citizens Association Saturday cast an unofficial vote on who should fill former Sen. Vernon Malone's seat.
The candidates were Blue, Bernard Allen Jr., former educator Carol Dalenko Bennett, Pfizer lobbyist Marlowe Foster, Wake school board member Rosa Gill, media consultant J. Mills Holloway, former DMV director Alexander Killens and St. Augustine's College provost Kim Luckes.
RWCA president Dan Coleman said that Blue won the straw poll by a significant margin, followed by Holloway.
The group's political action committee will meet tonight to take a formal vote. The result will then be forwarded to the Wake County Democratic Party, which will make a final nomination for Gov. Beverly Perdue.
"The Wake County Democratic Party is not necessarily beholden to that endorsement," said Coleman.
Results of the straw poll after the jump.
