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Democrat Republican Libertarian If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the first-place votes, the
Lenoir County Forsyth County Guilford County second- and third-choice votes are counted for each of the top two candidates in
Political Career: Elected to the N.C. Political Career: Served in the U.S. House Career: Business professor at UNC- the final vote tally.
Senate in 1993, and then became the of Representatives from 1995 to 2005 Greensboro. Also an author, manage- An instant runoff is being used because turnout for standard runoff elections
first woman to be elected to statewide and the U.S. Senate from 2005 to ment consultant and a radio talk show has historically been very low.
office in North Carolina when she became present. host.
Secretary of State, her current position. Goals: create more jobs in the private Goals: reduce the size of govern-
John Bloss J. Wesley Casteen
Goals: take on special interest groups sector, focus on entrepreneurship, ment, withdraw troops from Iraq and Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
and lobbyists, financial reform and more improve health care and services for Afghanistan, encourage small Guilford County New Hanover County
jobs for middle-class families. veterans. business.
Career: Practiced law for about two Career: Attorney and certified public
David Price, Incumbent William (B.J.) Lawson decades; admitted to the bars of three accountant
of Representatives
Orange
Democrat Republican states and 10 federal courts, including Endorsements: Political Action Committee
Wake County
the U.S. Supreme Court of the N.C. Association of CPAs, former
Orange County
Political Career: U.S. Rep. (1987 to Career: Neurosurgery residency at Duke Endorsements: N/A U.S. Sen. Robert B. Morgan, D - N.C.,
County
1995, 1997 to present), chairman of the University, created MercuryMD software Sheriff Blake Wallace of Duplin County
House Appropriations Subcommittee on program. Ran for the same office in 2008 and
Homeland Security. lost to Price.
Goals: invest in job creation, bring Goals: follow the Enumerated Powers Act of Chris Dillon Jewel Ann Farlow
Afghan military involvement to an end,
reduce dependence on oil, reform public
education.
the Constitution, balance the budget, reduce
the national debt and the role of the federal
government. Offices Nonpartisan
Wake County
Nonpartisan
Guilford County
Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Incumbent Nonpartisan Democrat
Nonpartisan Wake County Wake County
Wake County Orange County
Wake County Career: Assistant Attorney General at the Political Career: Attorney at law for 32
Political career: current appointee of Career: Began law enforce-
Political career: N.C. Court of Appeals the Chief Justice to the N.C. Courts Appellate Section of Attorney General’s years; N.C. General Assembly for six terms;
ment career in 1957 in
Judge and Mediator from 2003-pres- Commission; general counsel to the Office; lead appellate attorney for Crimes N.C. Commissioner of Labor for eight
Chapel Hill, first elected
ent; District Court Judge, 10th Judicial Speaker of the N.C. House in 1999; Against Children; member of N.C. years; Chairman of the N.C. Employment
District from 1996 until 2002.
county sheriff in 1982
District Court Judge since 2002. Association of Women Attorneys Security Commission for seven years
Endorsements: Cape Fear Tea Party Goals: Improve emergency
Endorsement: Charlotte Observer, Wake Endorsements: N/A Endorsements: N.C. Association of Women
Patriots, Greensboro News & Record response, office technology
County public defender Attorneys
and K-9/drug response
Rick Elmore, Incumbent Steven Walker
Nonpartisan Nonpartisan John Sullivan Cressie Thigpen
Buddy Parker Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Guilford County Henderson County Republican
Political career: N.C. Court of Appeals, Political career: worked for Justice Wake County Wake County
Orange County
2003 to present; all N.C. state courts Edward Thomas Brady of the N.C. Career: Attorney in private practice; seven Career: Judge in the N.C. Court of Appeals
and federal district courts; Fourth Supreme Court. Career: Sixteen years spent years with the state attorney general’s since August 2010; Special Superior Court
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Endorsement: N.C. Tea Party
as a police officer in Orange office; represented state in cases of violent Judge 2006-2008; founding partner of
County crime, tax fraud and labor law violation Thigpen, Blue, Stephens & Fellers
Endorsement: Independent Weekly
Goals: Cooperation between cases Endorsements: Justices I. Beverly Lake Jr.,
all levels of law enforcement, Endorsements: N/A Burley Mitchell and Henry Frye, former
Martha Geer, Incumbent Dean R. Poirier updating and increasing Chief Justices of the N.C. Supreme Court
Nonpartisan Nonpartisan enforcement techniques
Wake County Wayne County Pamela M. Vesper
Non-partisan, Wake County
Political career: Elected to the N.C. Career: Appeals referee with the N.C.
Court of Appeals in 2002; appointed Employment Security Commission and Sales tax Career: N.C. Real Estate Commission auditor, investigator and lawyer, 2006 to pres-
to serve on the Family Court Advisory
Council in 2007.
an adjunct professor of law at Mount
Olive College, North Carolina Wesleyan referendum ent. She investigated complex mortgage fraud cases and violations of the N.C. General
Statutes and Administrative Code. She taught trust account compliance. N.C. Real Estate
College, Kaplan University and Liberty Vote “for” or “against” a Commission, Assistant Legal Counsel 1999-2006. She helped to draft the administrative
Endorsements: Charlotte Observer, N.C.
University. quarter-cent sales and use code.
Fraternal Order of Police, N.C. Advocates
for Justice, N.C. Association of Women Endorsements : Cape Fear Tea Party tax increase
Endorsements: Equality North Carolina
Attorneys Patriots