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Black and white
……The candidate and the incumbent. One of ten children, she worked in the tobacco fields to earn clothing money for school. He went to prep school in Massachusetts — Groton. She went to North Carolina AT&T University and studied education. He went to Wake Forest University and studied classics. She taught school, then left for the University of Pittsburgh to get a Master’s in Public Policy. He left the practice of law to be Senator Jesse Helms’ legislative Counsel. She was elected as a Wake County Commissioner before becoming the Director of Human Resources for the Departments of Agriculture and Administration and later Personnel Director for the Department of Community Colleges. He worked for the US Attorney and became a judge. She was elected a state representative. He was elected to Congress.……Black and white. She’s black. He’s white.
……Can she win in a district that is 70% white? Nate Silver, in 538 thinks she has one chance in three. ……Wikipedia describes the district at more than 60% urban. Running on a northeast diagonal east of the middle of North Carolina, District 2 is urban only in that it touches the outskirts of cities: Fayetteville to the south and Raleigh to the west. Rocky Mount near the northeast tip doesn’t really qualify as a city.
……Why does LInda Coleman https://lindacolemanforcongress.com/ have a chance to win? A Republican oriented local newspaper describes neither candidate as well known. Not so accurate for Coleman. She was the Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor twice and came close to winning twice. The incumbent George Holding is a three term congressman. People don’t know him because redistricting led him to move from the thirteenth district to the second. People may not know him because he is not making much of an impact.
……The same Republican oriented newspaper encourages Holding to focus on the issues. So look at the issues.
……LinLLColeman urges:
- Federal investment in pre-kindergarten programs and reduced interest and loan forgiveness for student debt.
- Federal support for rural hospitals that are closing, Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, and health care that respects women’s control of their own bodies.
- Ensuring a safe water supply through federal support of green spaces along the rivers, green spaces that will protect against agricultural runoff.
- A $15 per hour minimum wage, paid family leave, and equal pay for women.
- Support for community colleges to train people for high wage jobs.
- Repeal of tariffs on solar equipment, support for continuing subsidies for clean energy, in part, to keep North Carolina a leader in solar energy.
- Permanent support for the North Carolina Land and Water Conservation Fund.
- Campaign financing reform to reduce reliance on large donors, provide incentives for small donors, and end gerrymandering.
- Universal background checks for gun purchases, outlawing assault weapons and high capacity magazines, and restoring research on gun safety.
Holding expresses his views in the simplest terms possible.
- No new programs. Stick to free enterprise
- Help families by cutting taxes
- End corporate subsidies like the Export-Import bank
- Make spending cuts toward eliminating the national debt.
- The recent tax cuts have led to business expansion
- All it takes is courage, he says, to
- Oppose abortion
- Support the 2nd amendment
- Require work from the able bodied to get welfare
- End Obamacare because premiums have gone up so much. Reduce premiums and still protect people with preexisting conditions
- Support the military
- Let the military do what it needs to fight ISIS
- Build a missile defense shield as protection against Russia and North Korea
- Support free elections
- A constitutional amendment to set term limits
- Wait to see the results of the examination of Russian interference in the election
- Support the Constitutional
- Ensure that the government does not oppose religion
- Ensure checks and balances by reducing the size of government
Linda Coleman was a point ahead of the incumbent in one recent poll. She is close to cashing in on that one in three chance to win because of:
- The difference in ideas between these two candidates.
- The difference in energy.
- The different commitment to health care.
- The different commitment to creating a better life in what is really rural North Carolina.
- Her commitment practicality;His commitment to ideology.
If enough people can see these differences, they could elect Linda Coleman https://lindacolemanforcongress.com/ to Congress. Help her get elected. Help her get the word out. She is a candidate for whom additional resources are not simply encouragement. Additional resources are the difference.
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