Today We Made It Official

Filing for public offices has started and today we made it official in our run for First District, U.S. Congress, North Carolina. We started the day in Windsor at the Board of Elections office for Bertie County. There we picked up the forms needed and had Shirley Davenport, Director of Elections, validate that we were registered in Bertie County. She also notarized the form listing the name that I would use on the ballot, "Dean Stephens".




Next Bud Lee and I drove to Raleigh to file the forms. Bud offered to ride along because the drive was such a long drive for such a short stay.




When we arrived it was already after 12:00 and luckily there was only one other candiate ahead of me in the line. That candidate was Joe Johnson, who is running for Supernintendent of Public Instruction. I met Joe last fall at the Al-Pam Conservative Club Christmas Party.




The young lady who was handling candidate filings was very helpful and agreed to pose for a picture of me handing over the filing fee.




Next I had to get the Campaign Finance Instructions, and validate that I had received them. 10 minutes in Raleigh and we were all done. Since we were well ahead of schedule, Bud and I decided to drop by the campaign offices of Fred Smith who is running for Governor and say hello to couple of friends. Jonathan Hill, Fred's Campaign manager was there and we talked a little politics.




After that, Bud and I headed home. Bud is the Fire Chief at Perrytown and he was committed to an evening training session, so being ahead of schedule meant he would have some time before he had to attend. I really appreciated his riding along. It would have been a boring ride otherwise. Thanks Bud.

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Press Day And Announcement Rallies

Monday January 28th, 2008 was a very busy day. I met Bud Lee, our video camera expert, at 6:00 AM in Bertie County, and headed out for the first event. That was an interview on the Talk of the Town TV and radio show in Greenville with Henry Hinton.

Next we held the campaign's first press conference at the Pitt County Courthouse. Joe Avery, Republican Chairman for 2nd District, took the entire day to help and was the man who introduced me at the events. Thank you Joe. That's Joe on the left below with Bud filming.




My speech of this day was focused on my key issue in this campaign, education. I used as example Angela McGlowan, author of "Bamboozled" and I quoted some key passages from chapter 3 of her great book.





After the speech, we met with the press representatives and answered questions. All day long we had great press turnout and a number of articles were written. The ones that are online are shown on the campaign web site under "Articles". The essence of the speech is included here in my campaign policy statement from late last year.






There were two more press conferences that day, one at Tarboro at Edgecombe Community College and one at Elizabeth City at the Museum of the Albemarle.




Edgecombe Community College Fleming Auditorium Lobby




View Of The Bay From Museum Of The Albemarle


We have the video of the "Talk of the Town" segment with Henry Hinton as well as Bud Lee's video of the 3 press conferences and we will be posting that shortly. It was a fun day.