2012 General Election Voter Guide

Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor — Pat Lawson

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[media-credit name=”Pat Lawson” align=”alignright” width=”150″][/media-credit]Patrick Lawson ― Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor
Age: 45
Occupation: Real estate agent
Campaign website: http://patlawson4sandw.blogspot.com/

Very few people know what the Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor does. How would you explain to voters what you do? That’s a tough question, because I’m not in to the job yet. There are five commissioners that run the office and I think there’s about seven or nine people that actually report to the five supervisors, they’re actually called supervisors. Three are elected, two are appointed.

2012 General Election Voter Guide

District Court Judge 10 (Gray Seat) — Erin Mulligan Graber

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[media-credit name=”Erin Mulligan Graber” align=”alignright” width=”150″][/media-credit]Erin Mulligan Graber — District Court Judge 10
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Beyond enforcing laws and being fair, what do you think are important qualities to bring to the bench? Let me tell you a little about myself and what I think are very important qualities to bring to the bench. Before I was a lawyer I worked at social services. I worked at Interact here in Wake County, if you’re familiar with that program. We work with domestic violence victims and survivors of sexual assault. Being in social services I was in this day in and day out, learning the resources in the community, in Wake County.

2012 General Election Voter Guide

NC State House District 40 — William Watt Jones (D)

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[media-credit name=”William Watt Jones” align=”alignright” width=”150″][/media-credit]William “Watt” Jones ― NC State House District 40
Political Party: Democrat
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The economy is at the top of voter’s minds in this year’s elections. What do you think elected officials can really do to address it? What I’ve been saying since the beginning of my campaign is that the first thing we need to do on a state level … is give tax breaks to small businesses over large corporations, because in North Carolina over 85 percent of our employers here are small businesses. If we can help them and get them some extra money from tax breaks or digital tax credits and put people back to work that will reinvigorate the economy. Of course at the federal level, they’re going to have to do the same thing.

2012 General Election Voter Guide

District Court Judge 10 (Worley Seat) — Anna Worley

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Anna Worley — District Court Judge 10
Campaign website: http://www.judgeworley.com/

[media-credit name=”Anna Worley” align=”alignright” width=”150″][/media-credit]Beyond enforcing laws and being fair, what do you think are important qualities to bring to the bench? I certainly think of course that fairness is primary among those things that we have to bring to the bench. There are several other traits that I think are very important. I think that being able to listen carefully to people and patiently to people. In the time that I’ve been on the bench I have gained an even greater understanding of how very difficult it can be to the large number—and it is an extraordinarily large number now—of pro se litigants in the court system to express their case.

2012 General Election Voter Guide

NC State House District 49 — Jim Fulghum (R)

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[media-credit name=”Jim Fulghum” align=”alignright” width=”120″][/media-credit]Jim Fulghum — NC State House District 49
Political Party: Republican
How long in district: Born in Raleigh in 1944
Occupation: Neurosurgeon and owns a chicken farm
Campaign website: http://drjimfulghum.com/

The economy is at the top of voters’ minds this year. What do you think elected officials can actually do to address it? What’s really encouraging is to see what’s been done around the country at the state levels. I’m very impressed with what’s going on with the 29 Republican governors. Twenty-one of those governors have, as we call, unified legislative groups — the lower and upper house are both Republican.