Patsy Keever to Challenge Bruce Goforth in 2010
ByBruce Goforth has served four terms as the NC representative for House district 115. His record on the environment and other issues have been less than stellar. When a recent poll showed that 80% of Watauga County residents want more landslide regulation and warnings for people buying homes in landslide prone areas, Goforth said, “I have about as much confidence in that poll as me being able to get to the moon,†he said. “I don’t think 85 percent of people believe in anything.”
Patsy Keever is a beloved former Buncombe County Commissioner and Congressional candidate in 2004. She says, “He’s much more conservative than I am … particularly on the environment,” Keever said. With the natural resources of the mountains, she added: “How can we possible have somebody that’s not a champion of the environment?”
The two Democrats will square off in a primary next year that will test the leadership of the Buncombe County Democratic Party.
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May 7th, 2009 at 8:25 am
I don’t know why Rep. Goforth would want to “honor the Sullivan Act” when it’s clear that the restrictions on Asheville to manage its own infrastructure are arbitrary and unfair. But he and the other are going to give us scraps from our own table.
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September 15th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Rep. Goforth also sponsored an anti-worker bill to “reform” the NC workers’ compensation law this past session. His bill, House 1022, would have eliminated, after a limited period, work comp wage loss benefits for senior citizens (age 65 +) who were injured at work. It was a terrible bill and the NCAJ and the AARP rallied to defeat it. But Rep. Goforth is clearly not a friend to working people of any age, but especially working people over age 65.
He claimed it was necessary to reduce work comp premium costs and “fraudulent claims.” His logic does not compute. The NC Rate Bureau just announced a 9 % reduction in premiums for most employers next year, so premiums went down even without Goforth screwing over the workers in this state. And he never explained how it would reduce fraud. Maybe he just wanted to hurt working people.
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