The North Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House of Representatives consists of 120 members who serve a term of two years. Each member represents an average of 87,116 residents *, as of the 2020 Census . The presiding officer of the House of Representatives is the Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the Senate President pro-tem. The Speaker is elected by the members from their membership for a two-year term. The Speaker’s duties include maintaining order in the House and appointing members to the House standing committees.The North Carolina General Assembly, of which the House is a part, is to convene a new regular session every two years, and the dates for these sessions are set by law. The NC legislature makes decisions on the budget: taxes, tax credits, economic development, education funding, Pre-K, the courts, Medicaid, etc. It also passes laws that set environmental standards such as water and air quality, tax rates, tax credits, criminal justice. Legislators in both chambers serve two-year terms without term limits. Sessions begin at noon on the third Wednesday after the second Monday in January.* https://ballotpedia.org/Population_represented_by_state_legislators
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Position/philosophy statement
Politics - the business of government - has been eclipsed by politics, shouting and posturing on both sides. I advocate Common Sense Leadership.
Current Occupation
Public Speaker
Age (optional)
65
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As a liberal arts graduate, I have learned how to look at each issue from multiple angles, often with the history of why we are where we are on a given question.
I'm a generalist with a wide range of interests.
I've conducted business in the five major continents.
Above all, I am guided by the True, the Good and the Beautiful. Just those three attributes filter out a lot of nonsense.
Actually seeing a bill I sponsor be accepted by my peers in the House for the benefit of the 88,000 citizens of District 88 - as well as the state's residents as a whole.
My opponent has not figured out how to do that foundational work as a legislator.
The latest season of CMS's "Payton Place" is symbolic of the terrible dysfunction endemic in approaches to education which boil down to "spend more money". Mecklenburg County is awash in cash and drowning in a sea of incompetence.
The sine qua non of education is students mastering material - learning, thinking, reading, calculating, navigating real life.
Lowered standards won't fool an invading Chinese army ... or counteract North Korean hackers ... or prepare a student for a lifetime of personal responsibility.
It's funny. I've been to thousands of homes over the last few months. Those left-of-center folk who were willing to engage never tired of saying the public should pay more and more.
Think about it: if that approach worked, we would be fifteen years better in quality of life, excellence in services and so on since 2010 - but we're not. Again, to throw money at ... whatever ... is rarely the right route.
Tax policy should feed what's effective and starve what doesn't work.
Above all, don't stand in the way of free enterprise, the wisdom of the real world marketplace and those who are giving to - rather than taking from.
Let's start with enforcing the laws already on the books.
Let's cease catch and release routines.
Let's understand that the overwhelming amount of crime comes from known troublemakers.
Let's agree that averting our eyes from so-called homeless squatting does nothing to solve the mental health, crime infestation and public nuisance trifecta.
My priorities:
Safe Streets;
Civic Exellence;
Accountable Governance;
Innocent Childhoods;
Free Enterprise;
Positive Change.
