Questions posed to Paul Terrell III 

1)      1)  I am running to represent all of the citizens in the 33^rd North Carolina State House district.

I will focus on reigning in our state government’s attitude of buy now and pay later. Dan Blue and the democrats have participated in the disintegration of our states reputation. It has been proven that we do not have an open and honest government. We should not be focusing on having state employees and lobbyist raising money. We should be focusing on creating a government that is transparent and fair to all of its citizens.   

2)   2)      The corruption of the North Carolina State Department of Transportation is criminal.

I will push to have the NCDOT abolished as it is in its current form. My model of a new NCDOT would have the governor nominate a chairman to be confirmed by the North Carolina Senate. Then I would break the state up into 10 regions based on population to elect a member to sit on the NCDOT board. The chair would serve a four year term and each district member would serve a two year term.  Term limits would be 2 terms for the chairman and 5 terms for each district member.  This would require at least a 6 to 5 vote to pass any one project.  

  3) 3)      Taxing “smartly” is a common sense factor that I will bring to state government.

The temporary taxes have got to go. A recession is threatening the ability of hard working North Carolinians to put food on the table. I will propose a bill to eliminate these taxes and publish all the names of legislators that oppose it. We have been punished enough by over taxation and government spending. I will support a rule that requires all earmarks to be voted on independent of other bills in an open House floor vote. I will propose a law that forbids borrowing against our states future unless there is a two-thirds vote by both the House and Senate. This would allow us to borrow money in the event of disasters. Having the North Carolina state government living within its means is common sense “smart” taxing policy. 

    44)      Having our children’s education system’s progress called flat is unacceptable based on our budget.

The ability of certain school officials to temporarily get away with fraud shows there is not enough over sight within the school systems. I know here in Raleigh the school board has been under constant criticism. This is for being very inefficient in the spending of money to build schools. I am for the county commissioners tightening the purse strings on building schools. Also here in Raleigh the school board is not using its full allotment of maintenance money for maintenance. Therefore the schools are falling apart way before their time. Instead of wasting this money, the school boards should be ensuring that the principals and teachers receive the resources they need but are not getting. Any additional money that I believe the schools need should go straight to the educators, not the inefficient school boards. 

    55)      The state of North Carolina is in one of its worst droughts in memory.

The state of North Carolina needs to create new reservoirs using up to date technology. We need to help coastal and engineering universities speed up the progress on affordable desalinization. It is common sense given that we have a big body of water next to us called the Atlantic Ocean. Using the stick instead of the carrot is often not called a very good approach. Localities really should always be trying to find better ways to supply water to the citizens of North Carolina. The water shortage created by the drought falls on the shoulders of our leaders who did not react to the enormous growth experienced in North Carolina. The voters need to send a message and remove these failed leaders from state and local government. 

   6 6)      Corruption has become a widespread disease within our state government.

I printed all of the articles concerning indicted, convicted and audited state officials and elected leaders. And a not so surprising thing happened, my printer ran out of paper. It does not help when the governor tells NCDOT officials raising money for his reelection to ignore disclosure laws. When numerous others are caught using their state or charity computers to write speeches and raise money, they need to be censored. Even a perceived conflict of interest should disqualify an official from serving on a board or cause them to recues themselves from a particular vote. I know that is common sense, yet our politicians just don’t seem to have any. The only real way to fix this problem is to levy heavy fines and jail time for each offense. Make it so there is no doubt that violating the citizens trust will not be taken lightly. 

Paul F. Terrell III

Republican candidate for 33rd district-North Carolina State House

4549 Tollington Drive

Raleigh, NC 27604

919-523-0304 Cell

http://www.wakegop.org/paul-terrell.htm 

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