John, we need to talk about Representative John Bradford.
I’ve mentioned Representative Bradford before: he’s currently the only Republican candidate declared for State Treasurer and my likely general election opponent.
You might also remember him as one of the Republicans who recently broke his campaign promise that he wouldn’t vote for any additional restrictions on abortions. Or the guy who literally said the reason he was thinking about running was because so many lobbyists and special interests had asked him to.
He’s also the proud owner of PetScreening, one of the state’s leading companies for what he calls “pet policy management software”. In layman’s terms, that means they help landlords keep track of pet policies and fees in their rental properties, claiming that they can help boost “pet revenues” and review requests to accommodate service animals.
Right now, Representative Bradford is also the primary sponsor on a bill that would allow landlords to require that tenants with service animals submit written documentation of their disability—and it seems awfully convenient for Representative Bradford that verifying that sort of documentation is one of the main selling points he uses to advertise his PetScreening business.
Most of the time, I like to hope that, even if I might not agree with all my colleagues, they operate with similar motives to my own. In an ideal government, we’re all here doing this because we agree that we want to help people, even if we disagree on how.
I know as well as you do that this isn’t always the case, but sometimes, the conflict of interest is so blatant you can smell it. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised—again, this is the same man who said in his campaign announcement that he was running because he’d gotten so many calls from lobbyists about it.
Next year, it’s important that we elect a Treasurer who is going to put the people of North Carolina first, every time. No government official should be using their office to enrich their private business interests—but it’s especially egregious when that person is asking you to trust them with our state’s treasury.
Unlike John Bradford, I’m not in this fight for the money—I ran for office because I believed the work I could do was important, because I believed I could give back to a state that had given me so many opportunities in life. But to win—to make sure we don’t have someone like John Bradford in office—we’re going to need the funding to knock doors, run ads, and reach voters in all one-hundred counties. John, will you help fund our campaign with a donation today?
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Best,
Wesley Harris
P.S. If you’re curious to learn more, you can read all about this bill and Bradford’s pet screening business at [link removed]
Wesley Harris is a North Carolina native and the only PhD economist in the General Assembly. First elected in 2018, he has been fighting hard for the residents of southern Mecklenburg County and working to make our state the best place in the country to live, work, and start a family. Now, Wesley is running for Treasurer to return common sense to our state government and build opportunity for every North Carolinian.
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