The Independent writes about the state legislative race in District 36:
We're supporting Democratic challenger Greer Beaty, a longtime state employee who's recently gone to work as an account supervisor with an advertising and public relations firm in Raleigh. Beaty's running on a traditional, pro-education Democratic platform. She, too, is for the high-risk health insurance pool idea. She's also for letting counties charge impact fees to developers ("policies that will have growth pay for itself"). But mainly, she distinguishes herself from Dollar this way: "While my opponent was running political campaigns for conservatives, I was working across party lines on Hurricane Floyd housing recovery. I was promoting high-quality child care through Smart Start and promoting the state's tourism industry following 9-11." Beaty does indeed have a long record of public service to recommend her. Dollar doesn't.
Of Greer Beaty's opponent, Nelson Dollar, The Independent has this to say:
Republican Nelson Dollar, a conservative, is the incumbent, and his claim to fame is that in two years he's never missed a vote. Dollar beat former Rep. David Miner, a moderate, in a nasty GOP primary two years ago that featured appeals to the right-wing "base" on issues like taxes (Miner had voted for some) and gay rights (Miner was against the stock anti-gay measures). Since then, Dollar's moved some toward the middle, as when he joined the N.C. Justice Center on a bill that would've helped folks with pre-existing illnesses buy health insurance (via a "high-risk" pool). He claims, in fact, to have co-sponsored at least one bill with every Wake House Democrat. Smart--but then he is a political consultant by trade. On the other hand, he's a Taxpayer Protection Pledge signer, a supporter of the anti-gay marriage amendment, and a faithful proponent of anything the homebuilders and big developers want. And frankly, we still haven't gotten over that '05 primary.
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