Pat McCrory, Republican candidate for North Carolina Governor,  was the guest speaker at the Orange County Republican Lincoln Reagan Dinner in Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 11.  A number of our members of  Conservative Women’s Forum were in attendance.

Pat McCrory, guest speaker at Lincoln/Reagan Dinner

Joyce Cotten and Pat McCrory

Frank Roche, Master of Ceremonies

John Wright, Cathy Wright, candidate for NC District 54 House, Kitty Felten and Robin Staudt

John and Kitty Felten

Frank Roche and Pat McCrory

A FUNDRAISER FOR CATHY WRIGHT WAS HOSTED BY KAREN AND GUS KOLIAS ON DECEMBER 12, 2011.   CATHY HAS RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THAT SHE IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA HOUSE.   NORTH CAROLINA HOUSE SPEAKER, THOM TILLIS, WAS THE GUEST SPEAKER AT THE EVENT.

Cathy Wright and NC House Speaker, Thom Tillis

Karen Kolias, Hostess, and Karla Moellering

Cynthia Heinz, Ruth Bishop and Gus Kolias, host of the event

Nancy Clark, Cathy Wright and Ginny Cole

Lynn Gschwind, Carolyn Hunter and Gladys Kofalt

Cathy Wright, Candidate for the NC House of Representatives

CHATHAM’S NEWLY FORMED REPUBLICAN TUSK CLUB FUNDRAISING EVENT – DECEMBER 1, 2011

Representative Paul Stam, NC Republican House Leader, Cathy Wright, Chatham County Republican Party Chair, and Jim Duncan, Chatham County Republican Party Vice Chair

Becky Gray of the John Locke Foundation

On Thursday, December 1, the newly formed Chatham Country Republican Tusk Club held a fundraising reception at Governors Club.    Ms. Becky Gray of the John Locke Foundation was the guest speaker.  Also in attendance was Republican House Leader, Representative Paul Stam.

Cathy Wright,  the Chair of the Chatham County Republican Party, announced that  she will run for the open seat in House District 54, which now includes all of Chatham County and parts of Lee County.  Wright ran for the State House in 2010.  She earned 43% of the vote against a 30-year, very liberal, well-entrenched legislator, the former Speaker Joe Hackney.  With new voting district lines, the House district is now a more favorable place for a conservative win.

To learn more about Cathy, please visit her website:   www.wrightforthehouse.com

To learn more about Cathy, please visit her website:   www.wrightforthehouse.com

FRED BARNES AND NC STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE PAUL NEWBY

Candidate for NC Lt. Governor, Dan Forest and his wife Alice

Jim Kofalt, Terry Kane and NC State Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby

Betsy Duncan and M.J. Hall

Samantha and Carol Johnson

Dale and Candy Owens

Sylvia Adkins and Cass Swon

Gladys Kofalt and Wendy Ball

Gus and Karen Kolias and Pat Elstro

General (Ret AF) Bob Bazley and his wife, Sandy

Linelle Dickinson and Cathy Wright, Chair of Chatham Country Republican Party

Marion Lein and Zan Bunn

Dolores Bilangi, Carol Kelly, Nancy Clark, Ginny Cole and Dr. Brenda Hunter

Fred Barnes and Marilyn Lummus

Nancy Neufer and Chrissie Beh

Cathy Wright

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

Cathy and I have been married for 38 years.  Now, on the eve of a critically important mid-term election, please let me tell you about her.  My hope is that you will come to understand why your vote for Cathy is important for you in District 54 and for the state.  In short, you are about to meet a hard worker and an effective, fiscally conservative advocate.

Cathy’s CV is not brief, so bear with me.  After graduating from Russell Sage College with a B.S. in nursing, she worked as an RN, and then taught nursing at Georgia Baptist School of Nursing.  We were blessed with two children, and Cathy stayed at home to raise them.  Our daughter now lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and two children, but only after successful careers as a ballet dancer and a high school English literature teacher.  Major David Wright, our son and a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy in the class of 2000, is an F-22 pilot at Elmendorf Air Force Base and Chief of 3rd Wing Weapons and Tactics.  When our children had shown us that Cathy had instilled in them the Right Stuff, Cathy began her own third career.  Her list of accomplishments includes Development Director for the Atlanta Ballet (as a volunteer), Development Director for the Kidney Foundation of Virginia, and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons and the Virginia Society of Ophthalmology (both of which she elevated to Model State Society status).  Her eye societies’ responsibilities included management of the associations and their finances, membership development, community relations, meeting planning, strategic planning, and advocacy.  I have a filing cabinet full of the awards and honors bestowed upon her, including a special one from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, none of which she’ll let me put on display (there’s only just so much room for pictures of the grandchildren).  (more…)

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Voters in N.C. House District 54 have the opportunity to vote for real change in this election with a vote for Republican Cathy Wright, who wants to stop inefficient and extravagant spending of our hard-earned tax dollars.

Democrats have been using federal stimulus money, one-time revenue sources and temporary taxes to prop up our state budget. Last year in the middle of a recession and one of the largest budget deficits in state history, Cathy’s opponent, liberal, 30-year career legislator Joe Hackney, introduced $1.1 billion in new taxes and fees in order to help balance their budget.

The Democrats’ “tax-and-spend” mentality has finally caught up with them and they have nowhere to go but tax more so they cover all their spending. To make matters worse, next year North Carolina is facing a $3.2 billion deficit. Permanent cuts in “out-of-control spending” have to be proposed to get our budget back in balance, and Cathy Wright supports policies for a more sustainable level of state spending, and encouraging job creation by lowering taxes to energize our businesses and our economy.

A vote for Cathy Wright is a vote for North Carolina’s future prosperity!

Nancy Clark

Chapel Hill

Cathy Wright will battle high taxation

Cathy Wright, candidate for the N.C. House of Representatives District 54, will make our district and state a better place to live and to conduct business. For example:

(1) North Carolina has the highest taxes in the Southeast, so what incentives exist for business to want to relocate here or for entrepreneurs to start a business and to hire people to cut our high unemployment rate? High taxes and out-of-control spending need significant cuts.

(2) Communities and properties are subject to annexation by municipalities — even across county borders and without a vote — because of an antiquated statute that needs to be revoked. City taxes are then added to the extant county and state taxes.

(3) Cathy’s husband served in the Navy and her son is a USAF F-22 fighter pilot; she knows “first hand” the sacrifices and hardships experienced by our approximately 800,000 in-state armed forces’ members, veterans and families with our ongoing wars against terrorism. She wants them to have a voice in Raleigh and to be treated properly and with respect for their dedication to duty and service in defending our country.

(4) Cathy is a licensed nurse and knows our health care issues and how we can make the best medical system in the world even better and more cost effective and not through state- or federal-directed mandates. Because Cathy will address issues such as (1) through (4) and is not a career politician, I hope you will join me in voting for her.

Emmett Stobbs, COL(R), U.S. Army

Durham