There is a lot to like about North Carolina Senate candidate Elaine Marshall. She is that stealth candidate that might sneak upon you and win. This past week she picked up endorsements from the state’s largest newspapers: The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer but Richard Burr still leads by a wide margin and is likely to win again. This takes nothing away from Marshall, in my opinion, because I think she’s smart and a hard worker. One need only look at her office’s website and more specifically the link to corporations to see how she’s modernized how the NC Department of the Secretary of State does business. Marshall, perhaps, has done politics the old way by winning local and statewide elections and then wanting to make the logical leap to the national level. She comes from humble roots having grown up a farm girl in Maryland. Here in NC she’s owned businesses and speaks first hand of the difficulties she faced as woman doing that. It would be hard to tie her to special interests because she’s taken on lobbyists and reformed NC’s ethics laws as well as her agency’s committment to protecting investors has led to the state recovering over $500 million from Wall Street. Meanwhile she’s run her own campaign for the U.S. Senate on next to nothing; ahem Democratic National Committee where were you? It will, it seems, be politics as usual for at least one of the senators from this great state. Burr will continue his stances against health care reform and extension of unemployment benefits for those who need help transitioning in this tough economy. Those connected to health care and drug companies, who “gifted” his campaign, can take solace in the fact that Burr will now have time(six years) to work on the bill’s outright repeal.

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