Voter
10 tuesday, november 2, 2010
United States Congress
Elaine Marshall
United States House United States Senate
Democrat
Lenoir County
Political Career: Elected to the N.C.
Senate in 1993, and then became the
first woman to be elected to statewide
office in North Carolina when she became
Secretary of State, her current position.
Goals: take on special interest groups
and lobbyists, financial reform and more
jobs for middle-class families.
David Price, Incumbent
of Representatives
Democrat
Orange County
Political Career: U.S. Rep. (1987 to
1995, 1997 to present), chairman of the
House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Homeland Security.
Goals: invest in job creation, bring
Afghan military involvement to an end,
reduce dependence on oil, reform public
education.
N.C. General Assembly
Ellie Kinnaird, Incumbent
North Carolina
State Senate
Democrat
Orange County
Political Career: League of Women
Voters in 1964; served as mayor of
Carrboro for four terms and in the N.C.
Senate for seven terms.
Goals: focus on economic development,
tax reform, criminal justice, restoring
mental health program/services, cam-
paign and ethics reform.
N.C. judicial offices
Robert C. (Bob) Hunter
Supreme Court
Associate Justice
Nonpartisan
McDowell County
Political career: N.C. Court of Appeals
judge since 1998; N.C. House
Representative for 18 years.
Endorsements: former Gov. Jim Hunt,
N.C. Fraternal Order of Police, N.C.
Association of Women Attorneys, N.C.
Sheriff Police Alliance
Ann Marie Calabria,
Court of Appeals
judges
Incumbent
Nonpartisan
Wake County
Political career: N.C. Court of Appeals
Judge and Mediator from 2003-pres-
ent; District Court Judge, 10th Judicial
District from 1996 until 2002.
Endorsements: Cape Fear Tea Party
Patriots, Greensboro News & Record
Rick Elmore, Incumbent
Nonpartisan
Guilford County
Political career: N.C. Court of Appeals,
2003 to present; all N.C. state courts
and federal district courts; Fourth
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Endorsement: Independent Weekly
Martha Geer, Incumbent
Nonpartisan
Wake County
Political career: Elected to the N.C.
Court of Appeals in 2002; appointed
to serve on the Family Court Advisory
Council in 2007.
Endorsements: Charlotte Observer, N.C.
Fraternal Order of Police, N.C. Advocates
for Justice, N.C. Association of Women
Attorneys
Guide
Richard Burr, Incumbent
Republican
Forsyth County
Political Career: Served in the U.S. House
of Representatives from 1995 to 2005
and the U.S. Senate from 2005 to
present.
Goals: create more jobs in the private
sector, focus on entrepreneurship,
improve health care and services for
veterans.
William (B.J.) Lawson
Republican
Wake County
Career: Neurosurgery residency at Duke
University, created MercuryMD software
program. Ran for the same office in 2008 and
lost to Price.
Goals: follow the Enumerated Powers Act of
the Constitution, balance the budget, reduce
the national debt and the role of the federal
government.
Ryan Hilliard
Republican
Orange County
Political Career: furniture manufac-
turer’s representative for 10 years.
Goals: reduce taxes, cut state spend-
ing, fight unnecessary regulation
concerning the job market, private
property rights, health care and educa-
tion reform.
Barbara Jackson
Nonpartisan
Wake County
Political career: served as associate
general counsel in Governor Jim
Martin’s administration and N.C. Court
of Appeals judge since 2004.
Endorsements: N.C. Defense Fund
Jane Gray
Nonpartisan
Wake County
Political career: current appointee of
the Chief Justice to the N.C. Courts
Commission; general counsel to the
Speaker of the N.C. House in 1999;
District Court Judge since 2002.
Endorsement: Charlotte Observer, Wake
County public defender
Steven Walker
Nonpartisan
Henderson County
Political career: worked for Justice
Edward Thomas Brady of the N.C.
Supreme Court.
Endorsement: N.C. Tea Party
Dean R. Poirier
Nonpartisan
Wayne County
Career: Appeals referee with the N.C.
Employment Security Commission and
an adjunct professor of law at Mount
Olive College, North Carolina Wesleyan
College, Kaplan University and Liberty
University.
Endorsements : Cape Fear Tea Party
Patriots
News
Elections 2010
Michael Beitler
Libertarian
Guilford County
Career: Business professor at UNC-
Greensboro. Also an author, manage-
ment consultant and a radio talk show
host.
Goals: reduce the size of govern-
ment, withdraw troops from Iraq and
Afghanistan, encourage small
business.
Orange
County
Offices
Board of
Commissioners
Earl McKee
Democrat
Orange County
Career: President of Caldwell
Fire Department board of
directors, member of Orange
County Planning Board
Goals: Encourage commercial
development, streamline plan-
ning and permitting process
Greg Andrews
Republican
Orange County
Career: THD Construction, Inc.
owner, on of board of directors
at BB&T, member of Masonic
Lodge and Moose Lodge
Goals: resolutions for the coun-
ty landfill, reduce spending,
improve emergency services
Sheriff
Lindy Pendergrass
Democrat
Orange County
Career: Began law enforce-
ment career in 1957 in
Chapel Hill, first elected
county sheriff in 1982
Goals: Improve emergency
response, office technology
and K-9/drug response
Buddy Parker
Republican
Orange County
Career: Sixteen years spent
as a police officer in Orange
County
Goals: Cooperation between
all levels of law enforcement,
updating and increasing
enforcement techniques
Sales tax
referendum
Vote “for” or “against” a
quarter-cent sales and use
tax increase
The Daily Tar Heel
INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING
In this year’s elections, the state is introducing a section of instant runoff voting,
which is meant to eliminate the need for a second runoff election.
While selecting a judge for the N.C. Court of Appeals, voters will select their
first, second and third choices from the candidates listed below.
If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the first-place votes, the
second- and third-choice votes are counted for each of the top two candidates in
the final vote tally.
An instant runoff is being used because turnout for standard runoff elections
has historically been very low.
John Bloss J. Wesley Casteen
Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Guilford County New Hanover County
Career: Practiced law for about two Career: Attorney and certified public
decades; admitted to the bars of three accountant
states and 10 federal courts, including Endorsements: Political Action Committee
the U.S. Supreme Court of the N.C. Association of CPAs, former
Endorsements: N/A U.S. Sen. Robert B. Morgan, D - N.C.,
Sheriff Blake Wallace of Duplin County
Chris Dillon Jewel Ann Farlow
Nonpartisan
Wake County
Nonpartisan
Guilford County
Career: Worked as attorney in private Career: Attorney at law since 1988
practice; helped to start a community
bank in North Carolina
Endorsements: N/A
Endorsements: N/A
Daniel Garner Stan Hammer
Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Wake County Guilford County
Career: Attorney, counsel to the N.C. Career: Assistant Public Defender, 18th
Commissioner of Banks Judicial District; Member of N.C. Bar
Association Appellate Rules Committee,
Endorsements: N/A
1995-2010
Endorsements: N.C. Association of
Educators, N.C. Association of Women
Attorneys, N.C. Advocates for Justice
Mark E. Klass Doug McCullough
Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Wake County Craven County
Career: Senior Resident Judge in Superior Career: Associate Judge for the N.C. Court
Courts of North Carolina in Judicial District of Appeals
22B from 2001 to present Endorsements: Pat McCrory, former mayor
Endorsements: Sheriff Jeff Jordan of Charlotte and candidate for Governor
of Montgomery Court; Sheriff Philip
Redmond of Iredell Court; Sheriff David
Grice of Davidson County
Anne Middleton Harry E. Payne
Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Wake County Wake County
Career: Assistant Attorney General at the Political Career: Attorney at law for 32
Appellate Section of Attorney General’s years; N.C. General Assembly for six terms;
Office; lead appellate attorney for Crimes N.C. Commissioner of Labor for eight
Against Children; member of N.C. years; Chairman of the N.C. Employment
Association of Women Attorneys Security Commission for seven years
Endorsements: N/A Endorsements: N.C. Association of Women
Attorneys
John Sullivan Cressie Thigpen
Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Wake County Wake County
Career: Attorney in private practice; seven Career: Judge in the N.C. Court of Appeals
years with the state attorney general’s since August 2010; Special Superior Court
office; represented state in cases of violent Judge 2006-2008; founding partner of
crime, tax fraud and labor law violation Thigpen, Blue, Stephens & Fellers
cases Endorsements: Justices I. Beverly Lake Jr.,
Endorsements: N/A Burley Mitchell and Henry Frye, former
Chief Justices of the N.C. Supreme Court
Pamela M. Vesper
Non-partisan, Wake County
Career: N.C. Real Estate Commission auditor, investigator and lawyer, 2006 to pres-
ent. She investigated complex mortgage fraud cases and violations of the N.C. General
Statutes and Administrative Code. She taught trust account compliance. N.C. Real Estate
Commission, Assistant Legal Counsel 1999-2006. She helped to draft the administrative
code.
Endorsements: Equality North Carolina