Eddie Davis can't get anyone on the Council of State to pay attention to him.

Davis, president of the N.C. Association of Educators, is seeking a seat on the Council of State as a candidate for superintendent of public instruction. He is running in the Democratic primary against incumbent June Atkinson.

But his problem has come since he began trying to get the Council of State to pass a resolution marking the 50th anniversary of the integration of public schools in North Carolina.

Davis said in a letter released today that no one on the Council of State is responding to his call.

"To say the least, I am highly disappointed, particularly because I have worked with most of you on a multitude of issues over a wide span of years," Davis wrote to Gov. Mike Easley, Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, state Treasurer Richard Moore and other members of the Council of State.

Davis said in his letter that he wondered if they were not responding because he is a candidate for public office and that his actions are considered "overly political."

"If that is the rationale," he wrote, "then to totally ignore a constructive concept that comes from a political candidate, thus, creates a political statement in and of itself."