{"id":11310,"date":"2012-04-17T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=11310"},"modified":"2012-04-17T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:41:00","slug":"n-c-senate-district-18-glenn-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/2012-primary-election-voter-guide\/2012\/04\/17\/n-c-senate-district-18-glenn-bradley\/","title":{"rendered":"N.C. Senate District 18: Glen Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nName: <\/strong>Glen Bradley
\nParty:<\/strong> Republican
\nOccupation: <\/strong>Representative for NC House District 49. Self-employed field service technician for network computers.
\nYears in District:<\/strong> 24 years
\nEndorsements: <\/strong> The Independents Caucus, The Republican Liberty Caucus, B.J. Lawson
\nAmendment 1:<\/strong> Against. “It\u2019s rife with unintended consequences. Although I believe in marriage between a man and a woman, I think the amendment is a bad idea for a lot of reasons.”\n<\/div>\n

What do you think is the central issue for this election?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The central issue of this election especially for me is restoring the constitution. The very survival of our nation hinges on government restoring the constitutional order. The only way we\u2019re going to do that is by electing constitutionalists. Behind that of course there\u2019s jobs. We have to have someone that actually pays attention to the job issue and works out that problem in a proper manner that actually creates jobs.<\/p>\n

What are the central issues in your district?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, Franklin County has a much larger job problem than Wake County does. There\u2019s a big issue in Franklin County with transparency in government. We\u2019ve gone through a series of recent crises with the sheriff, the appointment of elected officials. Right now the people of Franklin County are tired of corrupt government. They just want people they can trust in office and transparency in their government. They deserve that. People deserve to have some faith in their government. That\u2019s a big issue. I say what I mean. I mean what I say. I\u2019m not really a politician. I think that I meet that need very well as a member of the state senate. <\/p>\n

In Wake County of course even though they have less unemployment, we\u2019re still looking at regulatory reform and how we can increase job growth, because we need to get this economy moving again. <\/p>\n

Why should your constituents elect you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The biggest reason \u2014 and I recognize that this is not as popular in the electorate as I wish it was \u2014 but the biggest reason is because I\u2019m a strict constitutionalist. Having been a strict constitutionalist all my life, I hated both parties, because neither of them really followed the constitution. But our nation and by extension the state of North Carolina, we face an existential battle for our survival. The only way to survive that crisis is to restore the constitution to order. As much as there\u2019s jobs and transparency, there\u2019s bigger issues at hand. Even if there\u2019s only a few of us that recognize it, those bigger issues are that we have to restore the constitution. I was the only one in the state house that was talking about those issues. I\u2019m the one that has the courage of conviction to stand up to my own caucus when they walk away from the constitution. <\/p>\n

What do you think the biggest accomplishments and biggest failures are during the past two years in the N.C. legislature?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We had some pretty significant accomplishments. We passed regulatory reform, which was huge. Even though it wasn\u2019t nearly as good as I would have liked for it to have been. We also did annexation reform, which was really huge. There were too many people out there being unfairly annexed by municipalities without any input of their own. We also did House Bill 650, where we modernized and repaired the gun laws, such as concealed carry [and] castle doctrine. That\u2019s something that especially conservatives had been wanting in North Carolina for the longest time is real castle doctrine. So these are all really spectacular accomplishments.<\/p>\n

In terms of the biggest mistakes we\u2019ve made\u2014when I ran for office I said Republicans were going into office change the way government does business. And then when I get there and we start having these midnight sessions and these weird parliamentary procedures, the Republicans stand up and they look at the Democrats and say \u2018five years ago you did such and so and we\u2019re doing it now.\u2019 That\u2019s not what we were elected to do.<\/p>\n

Another big disappointment was redistricting. I also ran on the fact that we would do a constitutional redistricting for the first time in a century. You know, \u2018we\u2019re going to do redistricting right.\u2019 Of course that didn\u2019t happen. We gerrymandered it pretty badly ourselves and that really disturbed me. I was one of the only Republicans to vote against the redistricting plan. I went to Franklin County and fought against it. I brought Democrats together to fight against it. They\u2019re splitting counties and precincts like never before and they are trying to use the Voter Rights Act to do it but that\u2019s just something to give themselves cover. They\u2019re just trying to gerrymander the lean towards Republicans as bad as the Democrats gerrymandered the lean towards Democrats and that\u2019s not what we need in the state of North Carolina, because any safe district is a corrupt district. I don\u2019t care what party it is. If someone doesn\u2019t have to campaign to stay in office, they are going to become corrupt. That\u2019s just a fact of life. You can\u2019t have safe districts. You can\u2019t have a safe majority, because that destroys your state no matter what party you are.<\/p>\n

What is your guilty pleasure?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coffee. I am a coffee nut. I buy my beans from a roaster. I used distilled water. I brew it one cup at a time in this little thing. Coffee. I love really good coffee.
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