A candidate to replace Rep. Ty Harrell had to withdraw his name because he doesn't live in the district.
The news surprised Terry L. "Doc" Thorne because he used to get an awful lot of campaign literature from Harrell, Jordan Cooke, of the Cary News reports. Thorne was one of nine candidates seeking appointment to the District 41 seat vacated by Harrell who resigned amid a State Board of Elections inquiry into his campaign finance reports.
Harrell was also living outside his district when he resigned. His wife has sued him for divorce and Harrell was staying with a friend.
Cooke reports that Thorne got the news after he lost his bid to win a seat to the Cary Town Council.
Thorne has never lived in the district. He found that out on Oct. 6, hours before he finished in a distant fourth place in the Town Council race for Cary's District A. Thorne was also a challenger in that contest, one of the Triangle's most hotly contested. He garnered just three percent of the vote among Cary residents in Wake and Chatham counties.
Thorne is now 0-for-5 in his hunt for a political seat.
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