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?
