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DURHAM, N.C.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton officially began his bid for governor Tuesday, attempting to brand himself as an education pacesetter.
In filing papers at the State Board of Elections earlier Tuesday, Dalton became the fourth Democrat to officially enter the race. State Rep. Bill Faison of Orange County, who filed last week, also announced Tuesday he'll air the primary's first television ad. Former U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge of Harnett County also said he's in the race but hasn't yet filed. The filing deadline is Feb. 29.
Dalton sought to link presumptive GOP nominee Pat McCrory with the Republican leaders who now control the General Assembly. He blamed them for spending cuts to the public schools and higher education systems and attempting to eliminate economic recruitment tools.
"McCrory and the Republican leadership are doing lasting damage to our state, and they are wrong," Dalton said. "But together, we can change the course. That's why I'm running for governor."
Dalton, a small-town lawyer from Rutherford County who served in the Senate for 12 years before being elected lieutenant governor in 2008, touted his efforts in the Legislature and as the No. 2 leader in the executive branch on education and job creation. He was the chief sponsor of a 2003 bill sought by then-Gov. Mike Easley to create "early college" high schools that allow a student to get a community college degree and high school diploma within five years. Dozens of such schools are now set up statewide.
While lieutenant governor, he has led a state commission to help school districts match course offerings with the needs of a region's employers.
Meanwhile, Faison campaign spokeswoman Jeanne Bonds said the candidate would run a TV commercial starting Wednesday on cable television in all major markets. Bonds didn't release the cost of the ad buy. .
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LENOIR, NC...2009...remember?
If you recall in Lenoir, NC a few years ago when its citizens voted to ban candidates from attaching their party affiliation campaign ads for local races, the DOJ stepped in and ruled it was unconstitutional because minorities needed to know who they were voting for...they needed to know specifically who the Democrat candidate would be...more proof that Democrats believe they own the minority vote and that minorities are incapable of voting based on the candidates and need to vote based on party expectation.
MEDIA BIAS?
Why wasn't the party affiliation of Dalton(D) and Etheridge(D) listed? Why was the party affiliation of McCrory(R) listed? Does it have anything to do with the bias of the 'unbiased journalist' who wrote the piece? Only God knows.
Iis it because the democrat machine, which i suspect
the AP is a major player, has decided that this years candidates for Gov are going to seperate themselves from Perdue and Easly. They are ashamed of what their fellow -Ds have done and are doing to our state.
So organzations like the AP, in their desire to skew or write the news to benefit thier desires have made a decision to support the -D machine. It will be a "secret hand shake" that a person not mentioned is a -D. Yet they want to portray the -Rs in any kind of negative light possible and will beat the drum of contempt toward -Rs. The pilot will run stories by the ap vice checking them for content because a fellow journalist wrote it and its not their place to correct it.
Yet its under their banner which shows their bias?