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4 Democrats Vie for Lt. Gov.
By Rachel Leonard
Staff Writer
Four Democrats will go head-to-head
Tuesday for the N.C. lieutenant gover
nor nomination and the right to show
down with the Republican contender in
November.
Ronnie Ansley, Joel Harbinson,
Beverly Perdue and Ed Wilson are com
peting for the Democratic nomination.
Although each candidate has differ
ent plans for the office, issues like edu
cation and a state lottery are hot topics.
Here is a brief breakdown of each
candidate’s platform:
■ Ronnie Ansley, a political new
comer and lawyer from Angier, wants to
close the educational gap between white
and minority students and create child
senior citizen interaction programs.
Affordable health care and more effi
cient government budgeting are two of
Ansley’s other main prerogatives. On
the issue of a state lottery, Ansley said
state residents should decide.
Stressing community involvement,
he said, “We’ve lost our sense of neigh
borhood - we’ve got to get that back.”
■ Alexander County Commissioner
GOP Rivals Contend for Post
Bv Alicia Gaddy
Staff Writer
Two Republican hopefuls are vying
for the lieutenant governor’s seat as cur
rent Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker pursues the
governor’s office.
The lieutenant governor presides
over the state senate and sits on the state
Board of Education.
N.C. Sen. Betsy Cochrane, R-Forsyth,
and Winston-Salem businessman Andy
Nilsson are in the race for the
Republican nomination.
While the candidates’ platforms vary,
friends of both Republicans said each
had the qualities necessary to assume
the lieutenant governor post.
Cochrane said her main goal was to
improve North Carolina’s primary edu
cation system. “Asa former teacher and
a mother, education is a No. 1 priority.”
Cochrane also said she hoped to bet
ter teacher preparation and improve
North Carolina’s 52 community col-
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and lawyerjoel Harbinson plans to give
N.C. counties the option to levy a 1-cent
sales tax to raise revenue for local needs.
Harbinson wants to eliminate hog
lagoons (exposed waste £t hog farms).
He also supports a state lottery to fund
the public education system.
Bringing government to the local
level is important, Harbinson said.
“What the state government needs is a
little less Raleigh and a little more
Mayberry,” he said.
■ Beverly Perdue of New Bern, serv
ing her 10th year as a state senator,
could not be reached for comment.
Campaign spokesman Cecil Kahoon
oudined her platform.
Perdue wants to establish special
scholarships for students with high grade
point averages, eliminate hog lagoons
and a state lottery.
Kahoon said N.C. residents already
spend millions in other state lotteries.
“They are building brick and mortar
schools in Virginia while we’re packing
our kids into trailers,” he explained.
■ Candidate Ed Wilson, who prac
tices law in Winston-Salem, said he
wanted to give teachers the authority to
remove disruptive students.
leges. “I think the community colleges
need to be technically current.”
She said 20 years as an N.C. legisla
tor and her role as the state’s first female
senate majority leader made her the best
candidate. “I think I’m the candidate for
the primary, because I have experi
ence,” she said. “My opponent does not
have a voting record.”
But Pat Pine, spokeswoman for
Nilsson, said the 33-year-old Winston-
Salem native would put young blood in
North Carolina’s GOP.
Pine said she had worked closely with
Nilsson in the Republican Leadership
Council of North Carolina, an organiza
tion Nilsson founded, that aims to return
N.C. Republicans to traditional values.
“Nilsson knows as much as his oppo
nent about what’s going on, but he also
brings to the job new energy and ideas.”
Pines said Nilsson’s platform strongly
focused on taxation and education.
Nilsson’s “Tax Menu” would allow tax
payers to pick a state agency that would
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N.C. should also remove hog
lagoons, Wilson said, and special inter
est groups should play a smaller role in
the political process.
Unlike the other Democratic hope
fuls, Wilson does not support a lottery.
“We don’t need to build our schools
with gambling,” he said. “It’s not right,
and it’s not a reliable source of income.”
UNC journalism lecturer Paul
O’Connor, who covers state politics for
The Winston-Salem Journal, said that
although the office of lieutenant gover
nor was not the most powerful, the job
entailed presiding over the state Senate,
requiring a mature, fair person with non
partisan concerns.
Education also plays a role, he said,
because the lieutenant governor sits on
both the N.C. Board of Education and
the N.C. Board of Community Colleges.
O’Connor said said state senators
Perdue and Betsy Cochrane, a
Republican candidate, were likely to
emerge victorious.
“Clearly, the two senators are
favorites.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
receive 10 percent of their tax dollars.
The second point of Nilsson’s plat
form would extend North Carolina’s
vocational education programs, allow
ing high school students to participate in
technical apprenticeship work.
But Cochrane supporters said she
had the experience needed to become
lieutenant governor. John Garwood, R-
Avery, said he worked with Cochrane
for three years in the Senate, where she
served as a Republican role model.
He said Cochrane had played an
important role in the state government
since 1981. “Betsy’s a leader, and she
knows the rules of the Senate and how
to handle that position,” Garwood said.
UNC political science Professor
Thad Beyle said Cochrane could win
the nomination. “It’s a little hard to say,
but the person who is better known is
the most likely to be the winner.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached atstntdesk@unc.edu.
5 Seats Vacant on County Boards
By Tricia Barrios
Staff Writer
Voters will decide on Tuesday who
will fill three open seats for the Orange
County Board of Education and who
will go on to the November election for
two county commissioner spots.
Teacher retention and better pro
grams have taken center stage in the
school board race, while the county com
missioners’ primary has been focused on
issues of growth and fiscal needs.
School board candidate David Hunt
said the board had to weigh fiscal
responsibilities with the needs of students
to achieve excellence in the system.
“The issues should be what students
need to succeed,” Hunt said. “We need
to do the best we can for the students
with the resources we have.”
However, Marcia Compton, another
school board candidate, said an increase
in teachers’ salaries would improve
retention. “We need to give them incen
tive to stay in Orange County,” she said.
“We want to give them stability.”
Incumbent candidate Keith Cook
said smaller class size would do the
most to improve school excellence. “My
whole stance is that we need to focus on
student achievement by closing the gap
between African-American kids and
white kids and poor kids by reducing
class size,” he said.
School board candidate Dana
Thompson agreed that more teacher
incentives were necessary. “I want to
explore partnerships with businesses in
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teachers and other incentives," she said.
Incumbent candidate Delores
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important in providing students with a
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otal in student motivation. “I’ve always
tried to do what’s best for youth of the
county,” she said.
Candidate Richard Hathaway said his
primary goal was to raise all students’
performances to meet or exceed mini
mum grade-level expectations in three
years. “To do this, we need to provide
the proper level of education,” he said.
Gary Horne, school board candidate,
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