Candidate Biography (submitted by campaign):

Born in Kinston, I grew up in New Bern, N. C.  After high school, I earned degrees at Mount Olive College, Atlantic Christian College, and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacraments in the Presbyterian Church in 1983.  I married Tammy Odom, of Mount Olive, on Aug. 29, 1976.  We have three grown children, and three grandchildren.

I am running to reassert the principle that elected officials are servants and employees of the people, and not our masters.  I seek to repeal Quick Take, restrict eminent domain, limit annexation, defend property rights and gun owner rights, defend the right to life and family values, because the people matter.  We need to lower taxes, and address the problem of illegal aliens by removing every incentive they have to break our immigration laws, and by making English the official language of our State.  We need to stop the diversion of money from the highway fund to other purposes, and fix our roads and bridges.