Candidate Biography (submitted by campaign):

Edith A. Brotherton (Edy) was born on a farm in Stanly County, North Carolina in a sharecropper’s cabin.  Educated in the public schools of Stanly, Cabarrus and Mecklenburg, she attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  She now resides in Mint Hill, North Carolina for the second time.  She and her husband moved to Lake Norman in 1993 when it became apparent that they either had to sell their new boat or go to the lake to live.  In March 2004 she and her husband returned to their roots. Edy wanted to live and retire in her beloved Mint Hill.

Edy has always been active in government and politics.  In the early 1980s while living in Mint Hill, she and her good friend, Sally Weaver, came up with the idea of a business association to guide business development in Mint Hill – Matthews area.  Working with other interested business leaders, the Mint Hill Business Association became a reality with Edy serving as the first President.  Mint Hill Madness, a community-wide festival was the next big project for Edy and the Association.  Mint Hill Madness became very successful and so did the Association.  The Association is now The Mint Hill Chamber of Commerce but Mint Hill Madness remains “The Madness.”

As the mother of three, grandmother to six, and one great-grandchild, Edy Brotherton understands the concerns of all families and remains committed to doing something about government, at all levels legislating for the benefit of a few and not for working families, the elderly and students.

She is more determined than ever to “DO SOMETHING” about legislators who care only about preserving their own position as opposed to ensuring a Government of the people and for the people.  When elected officials care more about their own position than about the taxpayers who support our state, it is time for a change.

Taxpayers expect and deserve 1) an excellent academic education for all residents (citizens) from Kindergarten -- higher learning -- college; 2) Safer and better roads and bridges; 3) A stop to state government borrowing money from its own employees, D.O.T. and others. The state Constitution calls for a balanced budget.  Legislators know this, yet they continue to spend on special projects that keep funds from education, roads (transportation) and the judicial system, all of which are functions of Government.