It’s time to shift control, Democrats say
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
Four in 5th District want chance to face Foxx and keep the GOP in line, they say
By Bertrand M. Gutierrez JOURNAL REPORTER
Four Democrats are seizing on President Bush’s sagging job-approval ratings to go after the 5th Congressional District seat held by the Republican incumbent, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx.
In a district that includes 12 counties in Northwest North Carolina, the four Democrats, including a former state senator and the runner-up in the 2004 Democratic primary, said in separate interviews that they were running for office to keep Republicans in line.
The candidates are Mark Glen, an architect in Winston-Salem; Syn-di Holmes, a nurse who lives Mocksville; Roger Kirkman, a public-information officer in Winston-Salem and the 2004 primary runner-up; and Roger Sharpe, a former state senator from Harmony who once worked as the special assistant to the director of the Office of Civil Rights under the Carter administration.
The Democratic primary election is sche-duled for May 2. The winner will go on to challenge Foxx, who is pursuing her second term, in the general election Nov. 7.
Common to each of the Democrats is the view that the country is ready to shift from Republican control of the legislative and executive branch-es.
"This is about changing the paradigm of power and bringing it back to the people," Holmes said. "I think we can bring a new way of doing business to Washington."
On the war in Iraq, Holmes called for the impeachment and censuring of Bush, and she said that the United States should open a dialogue with "all parties," including Arab nations and insurgency leaders.
"We need to hold accountable those who have brought us to this point," Holmes said. "We can’t afford three more years (of Bush)."
Stopping the Iraq war would be her priority as a congresswo-man, she said, and the U.S. military presence in Iraq is a catalyst for more violence.
"We’re not going to have security through war," she said. "We will not have enough jails to jail these people (insurgents and suspected terrorists). We will not have enough guns to kill these people." (more…)
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