There’s a little less than a month left in 2023, but the 2024 election cycle got under way on Monday, when the filing period for candidates opened at noon.
Locally, the 2024 ballot will include three at large seats on the Lee County Board of Commissioners (currently held by Republican Bill Carver and Democrats Mark Lovick and Cameron Sharpe), four seats on the Lee County Board of Education (currently held by Republican Sherry Womack, independent Sandra Bowen, and Democrats Patrick Kelly and Jamey Laudate), seats in the state House (incumbent Republican John Sauls) and state Senate (incumbent Republican Jim Burgin), and Lee County’s Congressional seat (no incumbent). Several district court judge seats will also appear on the ballot.
Candidates for these offices will file at the Lee County Board of Elections, 1503 Elm St. Ste. 1 in Sanford. Candidates for North Carolina House District 51 can also file in Moore County, while candidates for North Carolina Senate District 12 can also file in Harnett or Sampson counties, since those legislative districts also contain parts of those counties.
Candidates for North Carolina’s U.S. House District 13 (no incumbent) will file at the North Carolina State Board of Elections in Raleigh. The filing period runs through noon on December 15.
The 2024 primary election is March 5, and the general election is November 5.
Statewide, 2024 will also see races for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state auditor, commissioner of agriculture, commissioner of insurance, commissioner of labor, secretary of state, state treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, one seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and three seats on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Time to get rid of these democrats.
Will you ever have new material dude? If you’re so committed to voting out democrats go run as a Republican yourself.
Yes, those Democrats, like the GOPs that either sexually exploit children or deviants themselves. Look at Co-founder of popular young republicans group- “Students for Trump” Ryan Fournier, accused with assaulting a woman with a firearm in YOUR backyard- at Campbell University in Buies Creek. Then lets go to the GOP leadership in Florida, that had a three some going, and its leader the wife was a prominent figure in the Moms for Liberty. Yes, lets get rid of those democrats. Please…..go get informed
Good, agreed. Get rid of Democrats.
Past time
Just saying is a one trick pony.
Time to get rid of partisanship, so people who care about the community and not power can run for office without threat of retaliation!
Sandra Bowen is proof positive that you don’t get points in the Lee GOP for being smart, capable, and honest.
Time to sweep some more Democrats out. Good.
Anonymous seems to be the thing now I guess. SO I will join that strange guy with the picture saying he is anonymous. Sandra Bowen is a prime example of political party leadership using fear, coercion, and illegitimate made up courts to influence the actions of elected officials to make decisions or support loyal party members. Until we as voters demand changes in our respective political parties to stop these types of actions we will always have corruption in our governing offices. The political parties are no different than the big money donors or lobbyists that we all complain about. They just have the veil of legitimacy because they have been so entrenched in the political process for so long. Hell many people think the Democratic Party and The Republican Party are government agencies. All they are is clubs like 4H, Lions, Rotory, or any other club that like minded people join. The difference is, they solicit money to elevate politicians to win elections instead of supporting local communities. Political parties use the power of money to get who they want elected and manipulate those elected officials to do their bidding and if the official doesn’t toe the line, then they threaten them. Time to Break the wheel and take back control of our election system.
You will several Constitutional Amendments to break the two party system.
First you have to have reapportionment done by an independent body.
Second you have to reform the nature of the Senate so that an Idaho or Wyoming does not not have 60 times the voting power of a California.
Those two move right there will send the parties scrambling to control the center and leave the wing nuts where they belong.
We need a Senate with about 120 members. Every state gets two. California gets six, Texas about 5, Florida about 4, NY, NC, Va, Pa, Ga, Illinois, and one Senator for territories so that’s PR/VI one, Guam one, DC one.
Then we need to make the House terms 4 years, staggered, instead of two so they are not always raising money.
That will allow the Legislative Branch to do its job again.
I agree with what you have said, except DC having statehood and having any Representative or Senatorial representation. DC was set up as a Neutral zone with no political allegiances for a reason. It needs to stay a neutral battle ground for political debate. I would add to your ideas that members of Congress are no longer paid by the federal government nor can they decide how much they are paid. They need to be paid by their respective states and paid an amount that their states determine. No more being paid from the federal coffers and no more getting to decide how much they get paid or like they just did, having the taxpayers pay for their living expenses. This would force them to represent their states more.
Federalism was a mistake. The electoral college was a mistake. The 2nd Amendment was a huge mistake. It’s time to dump the Constitution and write a new one. DC residents being treated as second-class citizens, without meaningful representation, is one of a long list of fundamental problems with the US government. It’s out of date and not working.