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3A NEWS^e €^rlottt Thursday, November 3, 2005 Home-grown candidate bids for council seat PHOTO/CURTIS WILSON Anthony Foxx, meeting voters at a candidates forum Tuesday at Martin Luther King Middle School, led the Democratic primary in September’s City Council primary. Continued from page 1A me,” he said “Susan Burgess has served this community well and I think she will con tinue to do so.” Others are more efiusive in their praise. “Michael Evans, chairman of the Mecklenburg Democratic Party, met Foxx three years ago to recruit him for a seat on the county board of elections. Foxx passed on the opportunity, but left his mark. ‘T was hi^y impressed,” Evans said. “He had a good fix on the local political scene and when the time came, you knew he’d be a great candidate.” Foxx, 34, grew up on poli tics. His grandfather, James Foxx, was a longtime advisor to candidates of every tenor, but was especially effective in west Charlotte, the base of black political power. “One of the things I learned from him was patience,” Foxx said in June when he announced his can didacy “When you try to puU together a group of people on an issue, you can take com mon ground and find issues in where there is agreement. ‘T want to be a consensus builder.” A 1989 graduate of West Chariotte High School, Foxx was the first African American to win election as Davidson College’s student body president in 1992, his senior year. He moved up to big-time pohtics in 1999 when he took a job as coim- sel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, where his boss was Rep. Mel Watt, a Charlotte Democrat. After leaving Washington for Charlotte in 2001, he started making his name in local cir cles. Foxx has campaigned pri marily on neighborhood revi talization, roads and hiring more police and code enforcement officers He insists those issues aren’t about party affiliation, but taking a long-term approach to Charlotte’s growth. “Charlotte is in transition,” he said. ‘T think the city is looking for leaders who can see 20 to 30 years down the line and make sense of it. What I’m offering is an approach that you can plug in anywhere and it works.” Foxx faces a stem chal lenge 'lUesday In addition to fellow Democrats Buigess, Darrell Bonapart and David Erdman, the Repubhcans have a deep and experienced field. At-large incumbents Pat Mumford and John Lassiter will be joined by John Thbor, who now repre sents District 6, and Lynn Wheeler, a council vetoan who was voted off the panel in 2003. Evans hkes the Democrats’ chances, especial ly Foxx. “There’s no question Anthony is an excellent can didate,” he said. ‘You wonder why he hasn’t run before. 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