Posted by: JessicaWood in Untagged on
Mar 12, 2010
MORRISVILLE, NC – Apex Mayor pro-tem Bryan Gossage today announced his support for Morrisville Councilman Tom Murry's campaign for State House in District 41.
Gossage, 35, was the 2008 Republican nominee in District 41 against then-Rep. Ty Harrell (D-Raleigh). That race, in which Gossage raised nearly $115,000, ended up as one of the closest in the state in a year that heavily favored Democrats.
Harrell resigned his seat in 2009 after the State Board of Elections and House Ethics Committee launched separate investigation into his campaign finances. Wake County Democrats then appointed former lobbyist Chris Heagarty to take Harrell's place.
Gossage said that a favorable political landscape and the encouragement of supporters weren't enough to persuade him to run again.
“It was a tough decision to not give it another shot,” Gossage said, “but my wife and I felt that with a brand new baby, 2010 was not the best time to launch another challenger campaign.
“[The decision] was made easier though because I knew that someone with proven conservative values, solid business acumen, and the strong support of his wife and kids would be in this race. There's no doubt that Tom Murry is the best candidate for the job.”
“Nearly 27,000 residents in this district cast a vote for me in 2008,” Gossage continued, “and I hope each one will come to the same decision I did about who to support this time around.”
“It's great to add Bryan to my list of supporters who make decisions that impact voters in this district,” Murry said. “Like myself, these leaders understand the needs and concerns of families and businesses here in western Wake County, and I appreciate their confidence in my ability to lead our state in a different direction.”
Murry's campaign has highlighted his record as a Councilman opposing numerous tax and fee increases in Morrisville. Murry has said that North Carolina's reliance on tax hikes and higher debt has made the state less competitive and is partly to blame for a stubbornly high unemployment rate.
NC House District 41 in western Wake County encompasses portions of Raleigh , Cary , Apex and the entire town of Morrisville .
FIRST, those crazy Democrats still drunk with power following the 2008 elections and Arlen Specter's decision to give them a filibuster proof super-majority ... decided that they didn't "need no Republicans" to pass a Health Care Reform their socialist special interests masters would love ... So, they completely shut out Republicans from the discussion of crafting the Health Care Reform Legislation
(SIDENOTE: Before you buy into the Republicans are partisan hacks focusing on their own good at the expense of the country line from the Left in Washington, remember that the Senate Republican Caucus includes the likes of Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, George Voinovich, Lindsey Graham, Lamar Alexander, Dick Lugar, John McCain, Bob Corker, Johnny Isakson, even Judd Gregg who was offered and initially accepted a position in the Obama Administration(!!). These are men and women who compose 25% of the Republican Caucus and (usually to the extreme disappointment of those of us on the Right) have a loooooong collective history of working with Democrats on bipartisan legislation.)
Here is an in-house video produced by a grassroots team for Craig Travis, a young Republican running for county commissioner in Rockingham County, N.C.
