The Winston-Salem Journal announced their 2016 primary endorsements and it was bad news for ACLU Lobbyist Deborah Ross.
Ross, who the Winston-Salem Journal calls “the favorite of the party’s establishment” lost out on the paper’s endorsement to Chris Rey.
After being turned down by not one, not two, not three, but FOUR, potential recruits, the DSCC gave up on their North Carolina recruitment efforts and endorsed Deborah Ross. The liberal Washington-based EMILY’s List also endorsed Ross.
But it looks like they picked the wrong horse. North Carolinians aren’t sold on Ross, and aren’t ready to take their marching orders from the Washington Democratic establishment.
Primary endorsements 2016: U.S. Senate races
Winston-Salem Journal | Editorial Board
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[Deborah] Ross, a former state legislator and former ACLU leader in North Carolina, is a hard and effective worker, a tenacious fighter and the favorite of the party’s establishment…
[Chris] Rey, who is running a grass-roots campaign, is living out the American dream. He spent his first years living in a trailer on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. When he was 9, he and his grandmother moved to Spring Lake to be near Rey’s uncle, who is in the U.S. Army. Rey attended East Carolina University on a track scholarship, then followed his uncle into the Army.
Capt. Rey served as a signal officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his work in guarding U.S. officials in the Green Zone in Iraq, and now serves in the National Guard. He earned a law degree from the College of William & Mary, worked for the Department of Defense in cyber-security and now runs a health-care nonprofit. As the mayor of Spring Lake, he has resolved many of the problems the town was facing when he took the job.
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In the GOP primary for U.S. Senate, the Journal editorial board endorses Richard Burr. In the Democratic primary, we endorse Chris Rey