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Personal Details

Caucuses/Former Committees

Former Vice Chair, Aging Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Agriculture Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Appropriations Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Judiciary II Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Redistricting Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Regulatory Reform Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Regulatory Reform Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Appropriations, General Government, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Appropriations, Information Technology, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Appropriations, Transportation, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Transportation Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Education

  • MA, Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1974
  • BA, Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1972

Professional Experience

  • MA, Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1974
  • BA, Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1972
  • Architect, Carolina Conveying Corporate Headquarters
  • Architect, Haywood Arts Repertory Theater
  • Architect and Campaign Chair, Haywood Regional Medical Center Fitness Center
  • Architect, Maggie Valley Country Club
  • Teaching Fellow, North Carolina State University

Political Experience

  • MA, Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1974
  • BA, Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1972
  • Architect, Carolina Conveying Corporate Headquarters
  • Architect, Haywood Arts Repertory Theater
  • Architect and Campaign Chair, Haywood Regional Medical Center Fitness Center
  • Architect, Maggie Valley Country Club
  • Teaching Fellow, North Carolina State University
  • Representative, North Carolina State House of Representatives, District 119, 2019-present
  • Candidate, North Carolina State House of Representatives, District 119, 2018, 2020
  • Representative, North Carolina State House of Representatives, 2013-2017
  • Candidate, North Carolina State Senate, District 47, 2004, 2010
  • Senator, North Carolina State Senate, 2002-2004, 2006-2010

Former Committees/Caucuses

Former Vice Chair, Aging Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Agriculture Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Appropriations Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Judiciary II Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Regulatory Reform Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Appropriations, General Government, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Appropriations, Transportation, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Former Member, Transportation Committee, North Carolina State House of Representatives

Current Legislative Committees

Member, Appropriations Committee

Member, Redistricting

Member, Regulatory Reform

Member, Subcommittee on Appropriations, Information Technology

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • MA, Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1974
  • BA, Architecture, North Carolina State University, 1972
  • Architect, Carolina Conveying Corporate Headquarters
  • Architect, Haywood Arts Repertory Theater
  • Architect and Campaign Chair, Haywood Regional Medical Center Fitness Center
  • Architect, Maggie Valley Country Club
  • Teaching Fellow, North Carolina State University
  • Representative, North Carolina State House of Representatives, District 119, 2019-present
  • Candidate, North Carolina State House of Representatives, District 119, 2018, 2020
  • Representative, North Carolina State House of Representatives, 2013-2017
  • Candidate, North Carolina State Senate, District 47, 2004, 2010
  • Senator, North Carolina State Senate, 2002-2004, 2006-2010
  • Member, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, present
  • Member, Downtown Waynesville Association, present
  • Member, Friends of Scouting, present
  • Member, Haywood County Chamber of Commerce, present
  • Member, Haywood Heritage Council, present
  • Member, Haywood Historic Society, present
  • Member, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, present
  • Member, North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry, present
  • Chapter President and State Historian, Sons of the American Revolution, present
  • Member, Swain County Chamber of Commerce, present
  • Member, United Way Leadership Giving Council, present
  • Member and Paul Harris Fellow, Waynesville Rotary Club, present
  • Member, Wilderness Trail, Incorporated, present
  • Member, Advantage West, North Carolina Board of Directors
  • Member, American Institute of Architects
  • Member, Appalachian Music and Dance Preservation Society Board of Directors
  • Participant and Contributor, Blue Ridge National Heritage Area
  • Scout Master, Boy Scouts of America Troop 321, Waynesville
  • Member, Daniel Boone Council of Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors
  • Member, Folkmoot United States of America Board of Directors
  • Member, Friends of Mountain History Board of Directors
  • Member, Haywood Arts Repertory Theatre (HARP) Board of Directors
  • President, Haywood County Arts Council
  • Member, Haywood Regional Medical Center Foundation Board of Directors
  • Member, McDowell County Chamber of Commerce
  • Member, North Carolina Progress Board
  • Director, Smoky Mountain Folk Festival
  • Producer and Caller, Summer Street Dances of Waynesville
  • President, Voices in the Laurel Youth Choir
  • Member, Western North Carolina Tomorrow Board of Directors

Other Info

— Awards:

  • Voted "Most Effective Freshman Democrat" in the North Carolina Senate
  • North Carolina REAL Advocate of the Year for Real Entrepreneurial Education
  • North Carolina Business Incubator Society Legislator of the Year
  • Legislative Advocate Award for Mountain Micro Loan Enterprises
  • North Carolina Legislative Advocate Award for Civic Education
  • Outstanding Legistlator of the year for Conservation, The Green Tie Award

Spouse's Occupation:

Rheumatologist for MedWest

Policy Positions

North Carolina State Legislative Election 2002 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning abortion.

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should always be legally available.
- No Answer

3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- X

4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X

6. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budgetary, Spending and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels you will support for the following general categories.

1. Education (Higher)
- Maintain Funding Status

2. Education (K-12)
- Maintain Funding Status

3. Environment
- Maintain Funding Status

4. Health care
- Maintain Funding Status

5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Funding Status

6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Maintain Funding Status

7. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels you will support.

1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status

2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status

3. Cigarette taxes
- Maintain Status

4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status

5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status

6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status

7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status

8. Inheritance taxes
- Maintain Status

9. Property taxes
- Maintain Status

10. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status

11. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status

12. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Undecided

14. Should North Carolina create a state lottery with proceeds funding education?
- Undecided

15. Should North Carolina allow cities and counties to raise local sales taxes?
- No

16. Should North Carolina use a portion of its national tobacco settlement money to help alleviate budget shortfalls?
- No Answer

17. Other or expanded principles
- the citizens should be allowed to vote on the lottery

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support the current limit on terms for North Carolina governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for North Carolina state senators and representatives?
- No

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Individual
- Yes

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- No

5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

6. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- No

7. Do you support public financing of judicial elections?
- No

8. Do you support non-partisan elections for judicial races?
- No

9. Do you support voting on-line?
- Undecided

10. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

11. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in North Carolina are closed?
- Yes

12. Should North Carolina recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No Answer

13. Should North Carolina restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- No Answer

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Other or expanded principles
- I will support session limits requiring the state budget to be complete on a timely basis.

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) to address crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer

2. Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
- No Answer

3. Support the use of the death penalty in North Carolina.
- No Answer

4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X

6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X

7. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer

9. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer

10. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer

11. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- X

12. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X

13. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
- No Answer

14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Educational

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X

2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious).
- No Answer

3. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- No Answer

4. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X

5. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- No Answer

6. Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- No Answer

7. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer

8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X

9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X

10. Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs.
- No Answer

11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

12. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X

13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer

14. Allow illegal immigrants who graduate from North Carolina high schools to pay in-state tuition at state universities.
- No Answer

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning employment.

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- X

3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding or relocating businesses.
- X

4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
- X

6. Include sexual orientation in North Carolina's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

1. College and university admissions
- No

2. Public employment
- No

3. State contracting
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Environmental and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned.
- No Answer

3. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- Yes

4. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
- Undecided

5. Other or expanded principles
- X

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning gun issues.

1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- No Answer

2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X

6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- No Answer

7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer

8. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health issues.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms or state-funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer

3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X

4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X

5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO.
- X

6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

7. Legalize physician-assisted suicide in North Carolina.
- No Answer

8. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.

1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
- X

2. Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X

3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
- X

4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
- X

5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- No Answer

6. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer

8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

In a total of seventy-five (75) words or less, please explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities.
- No Answer

Events

2020

Sep. 23
Aug. 11
Joe Sam Queen Town Hall with Jen Mangrum & Tara O'Loughlin

Tue 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

https://ncdp.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpc-Gppz8tE9UXJukdsnPUnaeby-Z09dBB

Jul. 27