Henderson County Four Seasons Politics
Three candidates filed for Henderson County School Board and all three incumbent county commissioners, Clerk of Superior Court J. Tyler Ray and Register of Deeds Lee King filed for re-election while candidates for Congress and the state Legislature were blocked from filing on the opening day of qualifying on Monday.
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Henderson County Four Seasons Politics
Twenty-one minutes before qualifying was to open, county elections directors across North Carolina received word that the state Court of Appeals on Monday blocked candidates from filing for election to the state Legislature or Congress.
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Henderson County Four Seasons Politics
State Rep. Jake Johnson announced his plans to seek re-election for House District 113, which is now made up of southern Henderson, Polk, western Rutherford, and southern McDowell counties.
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Henderson County Four Seasons Politics
A young mom who is a registered nurse announced her candidacy for Henderson County School Board on Friday, declaring that masks and vaccines in schools should be a matter of parental choice and not board-imposed mandates.
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Henderson County Four Seasons Politics
State Rep. Tim Moffitt announced on Thursday that he will run for state Senate next year in the newly-drawn District 48, which encompasses all of Henderson, Polk, and Rutherford counties.
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North Carolina Four Seasons Politics
Rep. Tim Moffitt, a first-term House member from Henderson County, earned the highest rating among all legislators in the 2021 legislative rankings from the N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation.
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Henderson County Four Seasons Politics
Citing upcoming projects including sewer service to serve the apple country, completion of the 2045 comprehensive land-use plan and renovation of the now county-owned VFW post at Five Points as a veterans service center, County Commissioner Rebecca McCall announced that she will run for re-election to her District 4 seat next year.
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North Carolina Four Seasons Politics
Filing for local, state and federal offices opens at noon Monday and new names could appear up and down the ballot as current office holders try to move up.
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Henderson County Four Seasons Politics
Announcing that he is running for Congress on Tuesday, state Sen. Chuck Edwards urged a supportive crowd at the Historic Courthouse plaza to send him to Washington to do what he’s done in the state Legislature.
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