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LEGISLATIVE NEWSLETTER
April 10, 2014
PUTTING NORTH CAROLINA BACK TO WORK
The February unemployment numbers came out a couple weeks ago and North Carolina’s unemployment rate has fallen again. Now it’s down to 6.4%, marking the first time since March 2006 that our state’s unemployment rate has been below the national unemployment rate. As stated in our last letter, our unemployment rate dropped faster than any state in the union! In addition, the North Carolina economy has added over 200,000 new jobs since 2011 when the Republicans took control of the legislature.
One thing is clear: the Republican policies of cutting taxes, curbing government spending, and reducing regulations has put North Carolina back on the track to job production. Since 2011, we’ve made great progress in freeing businesses from government intrusion and giving more power to the individual. We’ve reduced unnecessary government regulations so that businesses large and small can grow. We’ve reduced taxes for all North Carolina families and businesses so that our citizens have more disposable income which puts more money into the state’s economy.
In February 2010, our state’s unemployment rate was at its all-time highest level, 11.3%. Our state leaders at the time continued to spend, tax, and regulate in order to somehow boost the economy. The previous mentality that government spending puts as much money into the economy as private spending certainly did nothing to heal our ailing economy or to put our citizens back to work.
In 2010, you elected us to get our state off this track of economic stagnation. We did, we have, and we will continue to move this state onto the pathway to prosperity.
VOTER ERROR AND FRAUD EVIDENCE DISCOVERED
The North Carolina State Board of Elections recently discovered alarming evidence that voter fraud and voter error have indeed been a part of elections in North Carolina. The findings were recently presented to a Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee:
765 voters with an exact match of first and last name, date of birth, and last four digits of SSN were registered in North Carolina and another state and voted in North Carolina and the other state in the 2012 General Election;
35,750 voters with the same first and last name and date of birth were registered in North Carolina and another state and voted in both states in the 2012 General Election;
SENATOR NEAL HUNT
Proudly Representing Wake County in the North Carolina
Senate
15th District
LEGISLATIVE OFFICE
300 N. Salisbury Street,
Room 309
Raleigh, NC 27603
(919)733-5850
DISTRICT OFFICE
2600 Fairview Road
Raleigh, NC 27608
(919)781-3464
STANDING COMMITTEES
Appropriations, Co-Chair
Commerce
Finance
