NC State Senate District 23

Ellie Kinnaird* – Democrat

If re-elected, Kinnaird would be serving her ninth term in the N.C. Senate.

Education

• Wants to return funding to education, from preschool to universities
• Stresses using community colleges and universities to train the workforce

Taxes

• Supports tax reforms that close loopholes to special interests
• Wants to develop a small business bridge loan to lend to small businesses that want to expand

Environment

• Opposes hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, along with cuts to environmental regulations
  Health care
• Supports the federal Affordable Care Act
• Supports expanding Medicaid in North Carolina

Dave Carter – Republican

Carter works in a variety of information technology areas, focusing on ways to increase businesses’ efficiency.
He currently works as a mobile business intelligence consultant for small businesses.

Government efficiency

• Wants to reduce bureaucratic red tape to make creating new businesses easier
• Opposes immediate tax reductions and instead wants to keep taxes stable
• Wants to increase revenue through tourism and government efficiency and eventually reduce income taxes over time
• Supports having a “one-stop shop” for government information, rather than spreading it out over different departments

Environment

• Wants to pursue all alternative energy sources but carefully examine each one to see which are economically and environmentally viable