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DEMOCRATS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
Democrats made the
difference in passing the minimum wage increase in the State House of
Representatives last week. House Bill 2714 passed; Ayes 72, Noes:
43, Not Voting: 1, Excused Absent 4, raising the minimum wage by
$1.00 to $6.15 per hour. EVERY Democrat voting voted for the
increase. Only 11 Republicans voted for the increase, with 43
Republicans voting No.
The vote should
dispel the belief by some that Part does not make a difference. If
Republicans were the majority in the State House the minimum wage will
would never have passed committee to come to a vote, much less passed on
a vote of the full House.
Carefully note that
the 9 of the 11 Republicans voting for the bill are from mountain
counties: Starnes, Walker, Wilson and Sherrill; or coastal counties;
Stiller, Justice, Preston, Walker and West, but none from metropolitan
areas. One would suspect that these nine Republicans, from areas that
rely on the tourist industry which has a large number of minimum wage
jobs, were “inoculating” themselves from future Democratic Party attacks
that they had voted against a living minimum wage for a large number of
their constituents.
The two Republicans;
Howard and Moore, not from coastal or mountain counties are from the
textile piedmont, where concerns over job losses and citizens forced to
take lower paying jobs may have led their “inoculating” themselves as
well.
The Senate passed an
increase as a part of the State budget making a direct analysis more
difficult. However, in the Senate, all Democrats voted for the budget
containing a minimum wage increase and only six Republicans voted for
the budget.
In the upcoming
elections, Democrats across the State need to be making the case that it
is the Democratic Party that made the difference for hard working
families in North Carolina. If Republicans had been in the majority,
many North Carolinians would have been left working for a minimum wage
that only ensured wages below the poverty line.
|
Party |
District |
Representative |
Vote |
District Counties |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dem |
3 |
Alice Graham Underhill |
Yea |
Craven,
Pamlico |
|
Dem |
63 |
Alice L. Bordsen |
Yea |
Alamance |
|
Dem |
58 |
Alma Adams |
Yea |
Guilford |
|
Dem |
6 |
Arthur Williams |
Yea |
Beaufort,
Pitt |
|
Dem |
102 |
Becky Carney |
Yea |
Mecklenburg |
|
Dem |
33 |
Bernard Allen |
Yea |
Wake |
|
Dem |
101 |
Beverly M. Earle |
Yea |
Mecklenburg |
|
Dem |
50 |
Bill Faison |
Yea |
Caswell,
Orange |
|
Dem |
1 |
Bill Owens |
Yea |
Camden,
Currituck, Pasquotank, Tyrrell |
|
Dem |
112 |
Bob England, M.D. |
Yea |
Cleveland,
Rutherford |
|
Dem |
115 |
Bruce Goforth |
Yea |
Buncombe |
|
Dem |
38 |
Deborah K. Ross |
Yea |
Wake |
|
Dem |
20 |
Dewey L. Hill |
Yea |
Brunswick,
Columbus |
|
Dem |
46 |
Douglas Y. Yongue |
Yea |
Hoke,
Robeson, Scotland |
|
Dem |
99 |
Drew Saunders |
Yea |
Mecklenburg |
|
Dem |
60 |
Earl Jones |
Yea |
Guilford |
|
Dem |
72 |
Earline W. Parmon |
Yea |
Forsyth |
|
Dem |
22 |
Edd Nye |
Yea |
Bladen,
Cumberland |
|
Dem |
8 |
Edith D. Warren |
Yea |
Martin,
Pitt |
|
Dem |
7 |
Edward Jones |
Yea |
Halifax,
Nash |
|
Dem |
48 |
Garland E. Pierce |
Yea |
Hoke,
Robeson, Scotland |
|
Dem |
34 |
Grier Martin |
Yea |
Wake |
|
Dem |
31 |
Henry M. Michaux, Jr. |
Yea |
Durham |
|
Dem |
5 |
Howard J. Hunter, Jr. |
Yea |
Bertie,
Gates, Hertford, Perquimans |
|
Dem |
81 |
Hugh Holliman |
Yea |
Davidson |
|
Dem |
100 |
James B. Black |
Yea |
Mecklenburg |
|
Dem |
32 |
James W. Crawford, Jr. |
Yea |
Granville,
Vance |
|
Dem |
24 |
Jean Farmer-Butterfield |
Yea |
Edgecombe,
Wilson |
|
Dem |
35 |
Jennifer Weiss |
Yea |
Wake |
|
Dem |
90 |
Jim Harrell, III |
Yea |
Alleghany,
Surry |
|
Dem |
54 |
Joe Hackney |
Yea |
Chatham,
Moore, Orange |
|
Dem |
23 |
Joe P. Tolson |
Yea |
Edgecombe,
Wilson |
|
Dem |
21 |
Larry M. Bell |
Yea |
Sampson,
Wayne |
|
Dem |
71 |
Larry Womble |
Absent |
Forsyth |
|
Dem |
39 |
Linda Coleman |
Yea |
Wake |
|
Dem |
77 |
Lorene Coates |
Yea |
Rowan |
|
Dem |
49 |
Lucy T. Allen |
Yea |
Franklin,
Halifax, Nash |
|
Dem |
59 |
Maggie Jeffus |
Yea |
Guilford |
|
Dem |
44 |
Margaret Highsmith Dickson |
Yea |
Cumberland |
|
Dem |
9 |
Marian N. McLawhorn |
Yea |
Pitt |
|
Dem |
106 |
Martha B. Alexander |
Yea |
Mecklenburg |
|
Dem |
42 |
Marvin W. Lucas |
Yea |
Cumberland |
|
Dem |
43 |
Mary E. McAllister |
Yea |
Cumberland |
|
Dem |
66 |
Melanie Wade Goodwin |
Yea |
Montgomery,
Richmond |
|
Dem |
27 |
Michael H. Wray |
Yea |
Northampton, Vance, Warren |
|
Dem |
65 |
Nelson Cole |
Yea |
Rockingham |
|
Dem |
30 |
Paul Luebke |
Yea |
Durham |
|
Dem |
29 |
Paul Miller |
Yea |
Durham |
|
Dem |
57 |
Pricey Harrison |
Yea |
Guilford |
|
Dem |
69 |
Pryor Gibson |
Yea |
Anson,
Union |
|
Dem |
119 |
R. Phillip Haire |
Yea |
Haywood,
Jackson, Macon, Swain |
|
Dem |
118 |
Ray Rapp |
Yea |
Haywood,
Madison, Yancey |
|
Dem |
45 |
Rick Glazier |
Yea |
Cumberland |
|
Dem |
47 |
Ronnie Sutton |
Yea |
Robeson |
|
Dem |
4 |
Russell E. Tucker |
Yea |
Duplin,
Onslow |
|
Dem |
114 |
Susan C. Fisher |
Yea |
Buncombe |
|
Dem |
18 |
Thomas E. Wright |
Yea |
New
Hanover, Pender |
|
Dem |
2 |
Timothy L. Spear |
Yea |
Chowan,
Dare, Hyde, Washington |
|
Dem |
56 |
Verla Insko |
Yea |
Orange |
|
Dem |
55 |
W. A. (Winkie) Wilkins |
Yea |
Durham,
Person |
|
Dem |
107 |
W. Pete Cunningham |
Yea |
Mecklenburg |
|
Dem |
86 |
Walter G. Church, Sr. |
Yea |
Burke |
|
Dem |
12 |
William L. Wainwright |
Yea |
Craven,
Lenoir |
|
Rep |
70 |
Arlie F. Culp |
No |
Randolph |
|
Rep |
25 |
Bill Daughtridge |
No |
Nash |
|
Rep |
17 |
Bonner L. Stiller |
Yea |
Brunswick |
|
Rep |
91 |
Bryan R. Holloway |
No |
Rockingham,
Stokes |
|
Rep |
16 |
Carolyn H. Justice |
Yea |
New
Hanover, Pender |
|
Rep |
117 |
Carolyn K. Justus |
No |
Henderson |
|
Rep |
64 |
Cary D. Allred |
No |
Alamance |
|
Rep |
68 |
Curtis Blackwood |
No |
Union |
|
Rep |
74 |
Dale R. Folwell |
No |
Forsyth |
|
Rep |
19 |
Daniel F. McComas |
No |
New
Hanover |
|
Rep |
67 |
David Almond |
No |
Montgomery,
Stanly, Union |
|
Rep |
53 |
David R. Lewis |
Yea |
Harnett |
|
Rep |
110 |
Debbie A. Clary |
No |
Cleveland,
Gaston |
|
Rep |
105 |
Doug Vinson |
Not Voting |
Mecklenburg |
|
Rep |
87 |
Edgar V. Starnes |
Yea |
Caldwell |
|
Rep |
76 |
Fred F. Steen, II |
No |
Rowan |
|
Rep |
14 |
George G. Cleveland |
No |
| |