Madison County GOP

It is with great pleasure that I have announced my candidacy to be your next Secretary of State in North Carolina, and I hope that you will join our campaign today.

I have spent years leading and expanding funeral homes throughout North Carolina, starting with one small business in Pilot Mountain and growing it to 10 different locations in 4 different states.

I have a passion for helping others. Beginning with my many years from my career as a police officer to Executive Director of the local Police Athletic League, a non-profit group dedicated to gang prevention and helping cops and kids work together. I also helped create a state organization connecting PALs in various cities, served as Vice President at the national level, and lobbied for the Missing and Exploited Children’s Act.

Today, I am convinced that we need to have ordinary business minded individuals run for public office to bring common sense solutions that only those who have spent their careers meeting a payroll, managing employees, and providing the leadership to succeed understand.

My priorities are clear. I am running to:

Help generate economic growth by cutting the red tape and government bureaucracy that stifles our ability to prosper and create a climate that will promote the formation of new small businesses. Click here to learn more.
Enforce the laws and regulations governing the special interests and to ensure that our policies and actions are legal and professional. Click here to learn more.

We have just launched a new website where you can join the “Daoud Crowd” to take part in our campaign in ways that are truly forward thinking. Click here to visit us today.

I hope that you will join me – we have much work to do, but together, we will accomplish great things!

Sincerely,

AJ

Ben Keilman Announces Run for NC District 118 Representative

Canton, NC – Addressing a crowd of friends, family, and interns, young conservative Ben Keilman officially announced his intent to run for NC House of Representatives, District 118, and unseat the liberal incumbent. This was no hasty act of passion. “I have spoken with political scientists, consultants, professors, and civic leaders over the last few months before making this decision,” said Keilman. “We have put together a serious campaign committee, with a tremendous amount of talent and passion, and feel we have the ability to bring unity to conservatism in Western North Carolina.”

Keilman’s greatest inspiration to run comes from his family. The son of a small business owner, he has experienced times of hardship. “It’s not easy being poor in America, but it is easy to stay that way. We get paid to stay unemployed, starting a business is discouraging, and we insist on buying cheap imports from China – and we wonder why our growth has stifled!”

For Keilman, the tireless search for comprehensive solutions to improve North Carolina’s economic future has engulfed his campaign. “Every candidate’s platform in 2012 is focused on jobs,” his website says, “but few of them actually have a plan to create them.” Keilman says that conservative economic policies spur economic growth; if a district has all the other facilities to inspire growth, businesses will move there naturally.

Keilman is also passionate about states’ rights—he is strongly against the growing influence that the federal government has in individuals’ lives and believes that the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution has been neglected by Washington. He supports Voter ID as well as the reform of sweeping mandates, such as Obamacare and No Child Left Behind. Starting with strong families and communities, he feels we need to replace our Big Government with a Big Society.

North Carolina is capable of supporting new businesses; with your help, Keilman can make the changes necessary to bring them in. Please, go to www.keilmancan.com to learn more about Ben Keilman. Tell him what you want him to do for you, and ask him how you can help to restore North Carolina to its former prosperity.

For contact information, interactive blog posts, volunteer information, and more, please visit the website.

Michele Presnell to Compete for the Right to Challenge Rapp for 118th District House Seat

We are very excited to announce that Michele Presnell, current Yancey County Commissioner and wife of former State Senator Keith Presnell has officially declared her intentions to run for the right to challenge the VERY LIBERAL Ray Rapp for the 118th District seat in the NC House. We will post more details after they are provided by Ms. Presnell.

KENNY WEST THROWS HIS HAT IN THE RING FOR THE 11TH CONGRESSIONAL RACE

Kenny West (R) is running for 11th District Congress from WNC. Kenny is a Fiscal Conservative who wants to put God and Character back in America. He believes without having God in our daily affairs in Government, America will fall. He is a strong follower of what our fore-fathers brought to America through the Constitution of the United States and Declaration of Independence. Kenny and his wife Wilma have been happily married for 32 yrs. with two grown children Emily and Phillip. They live in Hayesville, NC with family living throughout WNC. Kenny worked for 15 yrs. with PCA International Photo Corp. as National Sales Trainer and Regional Sales Director over Eastern United States. Kenny now works for Liberty National Life Insurance working with small business owners throughout Western North Carolina and ranked 8th out of 6,800 agents. Kenny and Wilma are members of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Hayesville, NC.

STRONG CONSERVATIVE MARK MEADOWS ANNOUNCES RUN FOR US NC DISTRICT 11 CONGRESSIONAL SEAT

Meadows: “Western North Carolina Deserves a U.S. Representative

Who Will Defend Our Conservative, North Carolina Values.”

CASHIERS, NC (October 3, 2011) – Jackson County businessman, real estate investor and long time GOP delegate Mark Meadows announced today he is running for the U.S. N.C. District 11 Congressional seat currently held by Democrat Heath Shuler. Meadows, 52, made the announcement during a gathering of Jackson County Republican supporters, business and community leaders, family and friends in Cashiers.

Meadows told the group he got involved in politics as a Republican Party precinct chair in 1988, and has since served as a precinct judge, Macon County Republican Party Chairman and also serves as a member of the Republican Party Executive Committee on both the state and local levels. Meadows has been a delegate to both the N.C. and national Republican conventions.

“If the good people of Western North Carolina give me the opportunity to serve them in the U.S. Congress” said Meadows, “I promise to fight for spending cuts and a Balanced Budget Amendment, I will promote new job creation by voting for lower taxes and free and fair trade market policies, I will work for the repeal of Obamacare, and I will work to improve our education system, for all public, charter and home school students, by returning decision-making and funding to the local level.”

Meadows said he would work in Congress to:

- Reduce government regulations

- Reduce taxes to spur job creation

- Provide for accelerated depreciation write off for all new business investments to spur economic development

Meadows is a fiscal and social conservative who has served on numerous boards and was recently appointed to the State Board for Economic Development in Western North Carolina, because of his expertise in business and creating jobs. He also serves on the board of directors for Gilliam’s Promise, a non-profit group that was founded to provide leadership training and scholarships for students who stay off drugs. Mark’s involvement as the founding member of the Macon County Preservation society, provided efforts where a group of local volunteers worked together with the county to save a historical, one room school house and preserve a vital piece of mountain heritage.

Meadows is a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights and describes himself as a Christian Conservative and a champion of “Life, Liberty, and Lower Taxes.”

A successful small businessman, Mark Meadows has spent his career creating new jobs and opportunities for economic development in Western North Carolina. Mark and his Wife, Debbie, reside in Jackson County, with their two children, who are both currently in college. The Meadows have been actively involved for 25 years at their church, Community Bible Church, where Mark serves as an elder.

Meadows is supported by numerous County Sheriffs in U.S. N.C District 11 and other elected officials throughout North Carolina. Find out more about Mark Meadows by visiting Mark Meadows for Congress at www.meadowsforcongress.com and follow Mark on Facebook at Mark Meadows for US Congress.

For more information contact:

Deborah Potter, Press Secretary, Mark Meadows for Congress

press@meadowsforcongress.com

828-787-2222

DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEFF HUNT ANNOUNCES FOR CONGRESS IN NC’s 11TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Conservative District Attorney and Longtime Republican Activist Has Represented Henderson and Other Western North Carolina Counties Since 1995

Hunt: “For the last five years the 11th District has not had a strong leader fighting on its behalf in Congress and we cannot afford more of the same. Getting our economy back on track begins by getting rid of Heath Shuler.”

(Brevard, NC) – North Carolina District Attorney Jeff Hunt (R-29B) today threw his hat in the ring and declared his candidacy for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District in Western North Carolina.

Hunt, currently serving in his fifth term as District Attorney, has been active on behalf of Republican candidates and conservative causes at all levels for the past three decades. His current DA district encompasses all of Henderson, Transylvania and Polk Counties.

“Western North Carolina, and our entire country, is at a defining moment in our nation’s history,” said Hunt. “The results of this Congressional election and elections all across our country will determine whether the America we leave to our children and grandchildren will be as strong, prosperous and free as the America that was left to us.”

“For the last five years the 11th District has not had a strong leader fighting on its behalf in Congress and we cannot afford more of the same,” continued Hunt. “Getting our economy back on track begins by getting rid of Heath Shuler.”

Jeff Hunt will bring to Washington a renewed focus on fiscal responsibility and reducing the regulatory burdens on Western North Carolina small businesses who cannot afford them.

Jeff has built his career on prosecuting those who would do the public harm, and in Congress he will bring that same energy, integrity and experience to bear in the fight to resolve the pressing issues which continue to disproportionately affect Western North Carolina.

Below please find additional biographical information on District Attorney Jeff Hunt. For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Barbara Chase at (828) 884-2780, or by e-mail at mhunt@citcom.net.

About Jeff:

District Attorney Jeff Hunt graduated from Wake Forest University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. In 1975 he received his law degree from Wake Forest Law School and was licensed to practice in the same year.

Jeff began his legal career with Long, McClure, Parker and Hunt, an Asheville law firm with an office in Marshall. In 1981 he became in-house Trial and Labor Counsel for the Ecusta Group of Olin Corporation in Brevard. Prior to rejoining the Long Parker law firm, Jeff was a solo practitioner in Brevard.

In 1994 Jeff was elected District Attorney of District 29, consisting of Henderson, Polk, Transylvania, McDowell and Rutherford counties. In 2006 the District was changed to include Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties. Since winning his first election in 1994, Jeff has been reelected four times, most recently in 2010 without opposition.

As District Attorney, Jeff has led the fight against white collar crime, drunk drivers, and has worked closely with the state legislature to ensure the passage of laws which will appropriately punish convicted felons. His office has consistently had one of the highest rates of convictions for drunk drivers. In addition, Jeff agrees with the large majority of North Carolinians who support the death penalty in appropriate cases and continues to fight hard in courthouses and in the General Assembly to keep capital punishment in North Carolina for especially heinous first degree murder cases.

Jeff has been recognized for his continued leadership as a District Attorney. He was elected by his fellow district attorneys as President of the Conference of District Attorneys and has been elected several times to the Executive Committee of the Conference, most recently in 2010 and 2011.

Jeff has also been involved in community and state service. He has a special interest in hospital and health care issues and economic development across the region. Most notably, he has served continually since 1983 as a member of either the Board of Directors of his local community hospital or
of the hospital foundation. He has also served on the State Personnel Board, the State Banking Commission and the State Economic Development Board. Jeff is also a long time member of St. Phillips Episcopal Church in Brevard.

In addition to Jeff’s time spent in elected office and in community service, he has also been very active in Western North Carolina Republican politics and conservative causes for the past 35 years. Recently, he co-chaired Mayor Pat McCrory’s 2008 campaign for governor in Western North Carolina as well as Senator Richard Burr’s election campaign in Western North Carolina. Over the years, Jeff has actively worked on behalf of numerous additional Republican candidates at the local, state and national levels.

Jeff is married to Margaret and they celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary last March.

Spence Campbell is Back!!

Campbell to run for 11th Congressional District Seat

Dear Friend,Today I announced my candidacy for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th District. I’m running because I’m worried about the future of this country. The path our nation is headed down is not a good one. America’s debt is spiraling out of control and our economy remains stagnant. The politicians in Washington have responded with business as usual: more deadlock, more partisanship, and no common sense. We can do better.The old way of politics will not get us out of this crisis. Fiscal responsibility and economic prosperity know no party, no ideology, and no special interest. Only by restoring the relationship between the Congress and the people can we secure a bright future for our children and grandchildren.This country was established on the principles of individual liberty and limited government. Our founders weren’t thinking of how to control their fellow man or spend their neighbor’s money when they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. This nation was built on the idea that government exists to serve its people and that rulers are accountable to those whom are ruled.The greatest embodiment of that idea is the House of Representatives, where congressmen were to give those they serve a voice in government. They were to understand the needs of their constituents and act faithfully on their behalf. I think we all know that Congress has fallen well short of this ideal. Representatives too often lack a personal relationship with their constituents and don’t work to meet their needs. That bond between political leaders and people has been replaced by a bond between Congress and special interest groups.I invite you to join me in discussing how we can bring back the relationship between congressman and constituent. Over the coming months I will be traveling around the district to speak about how we can return America to greatness by returning to our roots. I look forward to meeting you and earning your support.Yours Truly,Spence Campbel

Spence Campbell for Congress
Post Office Box 2583 • Hendersonville, North Carolina • 2879