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<\/a>[\/media-credit]William “Watt” Jones \u2015 NC State House District 40\nPolitical Party: Democrat
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[media-credit name=”William Watt Jones” align=”alignright” width=”150″]<\/a>[\/media-credit]William “Watt” Jones \u2015 NC State House District 40
\nPolitical Party: Democrat
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The economy is at the top of voter\u2019s minds in this year\u2019s elections. What do you think elected officials can really do to address it?<\/strong> Why do you think your constituents should elect you?<\/strong> Helping small businesses, I think that\u2019s the way to go for these rural communities that have a high poverty rate and a high unemployment rate across the state\u2015some of them have rates above 20 or 30 percent. If we can provide some credit and get those businesses that want to come to this state to relocate to those areas, set up shop and hire people, I think the voters will see eye-to eye with me on that.<\/p>\n I have about 20 years of law enforcement experience. I\u2019ve been a police chief twice. I think we need to work on our criminal justice system. We need to stiffen up some of the laws. Especially with some of the stuff that came out recently about employers who were skirting the system on worker\u2019s compensation. People were getting hurt and not having any medical coverage because the company doesn\u2019t have any worker\u2019s compensation. That\u2019s not giving a fair playing field to those businesses that are operating legitimately.<\/p>\n What do you think of the state\u2019s new fracking law and how it should be implemented?<\/strong> In a recent Supreme Court ruling, the court gave states the option of expanding the Medicaid program to cover many low-income adults, and the federal government will be paying for the bulk of the expansion. What, if anything, do you think North Carolina should do about expanding Medicaid?<\/strong> [media-credit name=”William Watt Jones” align=”alignright” width=”150″][\/media-credit]William “Watt” Jones \u2015 NC State House District 40 Political Party: Democrat How long in district: Occupation: Campaign website: The economy is at the top of voter\u2019s minds in this year\u2019s elections. What do you think elected officials can really do to address it? What I\u2019ve been saying since the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[968],"tags":[982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat I\u2019ve been saying since the beginning of my campaign is that the first thing we need to do on a state level \u2026 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\u2019re going to have to do the same thing. We need more jobs in this state and we need to help out small businesses. That\u2019s my view.<\/p>\n
\nMost of them hopefully will understand that small businesses are the biggest employers in this state. They\u2019re looking for more money in their pockets and I hope those voters will vote for me that have the same views I do. I think a lot of them do.<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t think it should be implemented. I was opposed to it. I would\u2019ve voted against it. From everything I\u2019ve seen, fracking is not safe. Even the state geologist has said that if fracking takes place there\u2019s going to a maximum five-year supply. I think a lot of voters in those areas where fracking would take place., from what I\u2019ve seen they don\u2019t want it because it harms the water supply, the ground water. Fracking in North Carolina because of the shale deposits and where they are at in the ground would be totally different here than they would in Pennsylvania or anywhere else because the shale is a lot deeper. Here it\u2019s close to our ground water. I oppose it. I think there\u2019s a conflict of interest with one or two people that are on that commission that was appointed and I\u2019m opposed to it.<\/p>\n
\nMedicaid, I think, should be expanded to help those people that need it. Especially the poor that can\u2019t afford medical care and senior citizens and, especially, in my view, people with special needs, because they are going to bear the brunt of any cuts that happen. I think it should be expanded. I also think we should do something about the fraud that takes place. I think we can expand it and find solutions to make it better and cut out the fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"