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Lowe files for full term in N.C. Senate Most City Council members file to run for their seats CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT~ Sen. Paul Lowe Jr., a Democrat, has filed to run for the 32nd Senatorial District of North Carolina, seeking election for his first full term of office. He joins most of the Winston Salem City Council mem bers in filing to run on Tuesday, Dec. 1, the open ing day of the filing period for 20i6 races. Next year will be the first City Council election affected by a 2011 state law that changed the city's elections from being held by themselves on odd num bered years to being held on even numbered years with presidential elections. The General Assembly moved the primary from May 10 to March 15. These changes are on top of a new requirement that voters show a government-issued photo ID, or fill out a form on why they couldn't get one, in order to vote in 2016. However, there are legal challenges to the voter ID law that could overturn it, possibly before the primaries. Winston-Salem is one of only a few municipali ties that has had its munici pal elections changed to even years. There were 40 different contests before Forsyth County voters in 2012. Adding the mayor and eight City Council races along with a statewide Connect NC bond, which will likely be on the pri mary ballot, will make for a longer ballot. Lowe, who also is pas tor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, is new to elected office. Local Democratic Party leaders met in January and appointed Lowe to fill the unexpired term of former N.C. Sen. Earline Parmon, who resigned from office to join the staff of U.S. Rep. Alma Adams. "Our families deserve a strong voice on educa tion, jobs and economic opportunities," Lowe said in a statement. "...There's much work ahead of us." Besides Lowe, the fol lowing candidates filed on Tuesday to seek their cur rent positions: ?Joyce Krawiec, N.C. State Senate, District 31, Republican ?Evelyn Terry, N.C. House of Representatives, District 71, Democrat ?Debra Conrad, N.C. House of Representatives, District 74, Republican ?Dave Plyer, Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, District B, Republican ?Gloria D. Whisenhunt, Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, District B ?C. Norman Holleman. Forsyth County Register of Deeds, Democrat ?Allen Joines, City of Winston-Salem, Mayor, Democrat ?Derwin L. Montgomery, Winston Salem City Council, East Ward, Democrat ?Denise "DD" Adams, Winston-Salem City Council, North Ward, Democrat ?Jeff Macintosh, Winston-Salem City Council, Northwest Ward, Democrat ?James Taylor, Winston-Salem City Council, Southeast Ward, Democrat ?Dan Besse. Winston Salem City Council, Southwest Ward, Democrat ?Robert Clark, Winston-Salem City Council, West Ward, Democrat Mayor Pro Tempore Vivian Burke and South Ward Council Member Molly Leight are the only City Council members who did not file on Tuesday. Residents are able to file at the Forsyth County Board of Elections for fed eral, state and local offices. The filing period closes on Dec. 21. ^^PA!G^ Black pastors press Trump on tone during meeting BY JILL COLVrN ASSOOATED PRESS NEW YORK -Dozens of black pastors pressed Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday to address what some called his use of racially charged rhetoric, with several describing a meeting that became tense at times as attendees raised concerns about his blunt language. While some left the gathering at Trump's sky scraper in niidtown Manhattan with hopes their message had resonated, Trump said afterward he had no plans to change his approach, which he said had taken him to ^ first position in every single poll." "The beautiful thing about the meeting is that they didn't really ask me to change the tone," Tramp said. "I think they really want to see victory, because ultimately it is about, we want to win and we want to win together." But several pastors who met with the billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star, who has held a consistent lead in prefer ence polls of GOP voters for several months due in large part to his aggressive style of campaigning, told a different story. Bishop George Bloomer, who traveled to the gathering from North Carolina, said he arrived in New York with concerns about "the racial com ments that have been made and the insensitive com ments that have been made," including an inci dent earlier this month in which a black protester was roughed up by Trump sup porters at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama. Trump said after the incident, "Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolute ly disgusting what he was doing." "*I asked him: "Are you a racist? People are saying that about you,'" Bloomer said. ""If you are seeking the African-American community to support you, at the least, you're not help ing with these kind of things that are going on." Bloomer said that he told Trump that ""if he wants to have our ear as a community, to at least tone down the rhetoric some kind of way, tone it down. And he said that he would." Pastor A1 Morgan of Launch Ministries in Raleigh, North Carolina, said part of the group's dis cussion focused on whether Trump should maybe light en up a bit. ""What he said was that he would take that into consideration," Morgan said. "So the thing was, trying to be who he is, so you have to remain true to yourself. And, in his defense, that's gotten him where he is. So the thing is, how do you convey a per son's heart with their per sonality? That's the dilem ma." Trump has been court ing the support of evangel ical black clergy members as he works to broaden his appeal in a crowded Republican field. Monday's meeting was originally pro moted by his campaign as an endorsement event, in which he would receive the backing of 100 black evan gelical and religious lead ers. But many of those invited to the meet-and greet objected over the weekend to that descrip tion, saying they had instead accepted the invita tion because they wanted to meet with Trump to chal lenge him about what he's said as a candidate. Trump kicked off his campaign with a speech in which he said some Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, and recently drew criticism for retweeting an image of inaccurate statistics that vastly overrepresented the number of whites killed by blacks, among other errors. In a letter published by Ebony magazine, more than 100 black religious leaders wrote that " Trump's racially inaccu rate, insensitive and incen diary rhetoric should give those charged with the care of the spirits and spuls of black people great pause." They also expressed concern that the meeting Monday would "give Trump the appearance of legitimacy among those who follow your leadership and respect your position as clergy." Plans for a post-meet ing news conference were initially canceled, but then unexpectedly revived by a few participants. They met with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower. While there was no endorsement from the group as a whole, some of those who attended expressed their full-throat ed support for Trump. "What we were able to do today was allow people to see his heart for them selves and to make up their own minds about him," said Darrell Scott, the sen ior pastor of New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who helped to organize the meeting. "They find out that he's not the person that the media has depicted him to be." ?DUKE ENERGY, We're poWered by what's most important. At Duke Energy, we care about making a difference. Whether we're volunteering with local charities, funding science and engineering programs in schools or investing in the future workforce with career training programs, we're always powered by what's most important - you. 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