Openly Gay Banker to Run Against Dole in North Carolina

Will the Campaign Be About the Real Issues?

By Tyler Mills, published Oct 30, 2007
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It takes courage to help run several Fortune 500 companies like E.F. Hutton and Bear Sterns. It takes courage to be one of the most successful investment bankers in the country. People who are able to do this should be commended. When someone like Jim Neal who is a millionaire turns out to be a Democrat it can take even more courage; a lot of times people are unwilling to even admit they are a liberals if they've been successful in the area of business. Now why is this? Because people who you may have to cut business deals with are going to look at you like you want to tax them to death eviscerating their life savings. It takes even more fortitude to do this in a southern state like North Carolina. Now as Democrat Jim Neal runs for the United States Senate against Bob Dole's wife and first term Senator Elizabeth Dole that there are going to be actual issues discussed about how to bring jobs back to North Carolina who has seen their manufacturing sector slowly disappear for over two decades now? Or do you think the focus of the dialogue will be about using phrases like cut and run, radical anti-family agenda that you tend to hear in a lot of the ads in today's political contests.

Openly Gay Banker to Run Against Dole in North Carolina

Investment banker Jim Neal who is challenging Dole for her seat.

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Takeaways
  • Dole was elected to the United States Senate in 2002.
  • Bob Dole is Elizabeth Dole's husband.
  • Jim Neal has two kids.
Did You Know?
Elizabeth Dole was Secretary of the Department of Transportation during a couple of years in the Reagan Administration.
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Nice work, he has a job ahead, Dole is hard to beat here in NC.

Posted on 11/30/2007 at 7:11:00 PM

 
Interesting! I'm with Courtney. This will certainly make for some controversial political commercials.

Posted on 11/03/2007 at 9:11:00 PM

 
VERY interesting. I didn't know about this and I really enjoyed reading your article. Fantastic work! I can't imagine what the political commercials are going to look like in North Carolina! :)

Posted on 11/01/2007 at 1:11:00 PM

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