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Roy Carter is tied in his race to unseat Virginia Foxx, who took over for Richard Burr.

He's running in the most conservative district in North Carolina, and his opponent Foxx called ALL Democrats "Godless Socialists."


If it's true that anyone, regardless of income or social status, can run for national political office in this country then this man should be elected and I encourage you to take the time to read about him, and possibly support a school teacher's bid for congress by having him on the show for a few minutes, with Jim Dean, the brother of the party chairman.


His name is Roy Carter, who's running an amazing campaign for U.S. Congress in NC-05, and in full disclosure I'm his Political Director.

He was my high school teacher, when I was struggling and considered dropping out he convinced me to stick it out and graduate from high school. And now I'm four months away graduating college with a degree in journalism, and a minor in political science. And last summer I was able to intern for Dean's Democracy for America organization, all due to Roy Carter believing in me.

When you hear the words Baptist, Deacon, Southern good ole' boy, high school football coach/teacher, and farmer in one of the reddest districts in NC you would hardly picture that person being a Progressive.

At best you might consider the guy a Blue Dog Democrat, at best, like Heath Shuler in the neighboring district.

The thing about Carter is, his "progressivism" is not something based on ideology, but rather common sense.

It wasn't a staunch opposition to imperialism or to nation building that made him opposed to the invading Iraq back in 2002.

It was the simple fact that Iraq had not attacked us and therefore we should not attack them. And that's what he told his High School students in the classroom in 02 and 03, I should now because I was one of them.

Carter is a man who has coached football and taught science for forty years, also tending to the family farm, and he built his own house four times, never living much of a public life.

But after he saw former student after former student being shipped off to Iraq, and then being Stop-lossed, he decided it was his duty to help bring them home safely to their families.

So he boldly announced his candidacy for U.S. Congress in a district that has been Republican since 1994 and produced current NC Senator Richard Burr.

It's also a heavily gerry mandered district and the odds usually are against any Democrat winning there. But after none of the big name democrats, Mayors, Town Council members, and lawyers were too scared to run, Roy bravely threw his hat into the ring to defeat right-wing extremist Rep. Virginia Foxx.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6mTyxekZ4&eurl=http ://... /

In the past the Democrats struggled mightily in challenging Foxx by nominating perceived "intellectuals," men who had written several books and who came off as elitist.

That simply wouldn't work in a district where NASCAR started, that's the birthplace of Lowe's Hardware, and hosts the east coast's largest bluegrass festival.

It's a backwoods district, country as you can imagine.

But this time the Democrats got it right by backing the guy who has a southern drawl, and the personality of Andy Griffith (Andy's hometown and the basis for the show are also in the district).

You'd think given the nature of the district that only way of winning would be to run as a Blue Dog and serve as one too in order to stay in Congress but that's not the case.

Roy is running as a full blown progressive, issuing landmark statements in opposition to Mountain-top Removal (the source of most of the district's power), corporate greed, and the Iraq War. And most importantly the corruption of his opponent:

http://www.roycarterforcongress.com/5.27.html

He wants to trash NAFTA, end No Child Left Behind, end the tax breaks for the large oil corporations, and will demand universal health care for all Americans.

And he'll be great on the House floor, fighting for progressive ideals with the intimidating factor of a hard nosed football coach.

And Roy has been getting involved during the campaign as an activist as well.

Carter appeared at an anti-war rally at the local university, Appalachian State, and drew many of the crowd of 500 to tears with an inspiring speech.

Weeks later Roy joined 50-60 students in a sit-in in the Chancellor's office of the University over the University's use of sweatshop labor to produce it's apparel.

It really is a unique story, he's become a hero of the Left, and the netroots, being named Democracy for America's Grassroots All-Star and winning their endorsement, as well as that of LCV, NEA, etc...

In the Grassroots All-Star race 90 Democratic Congressional challengers were entered into an online voting pool, that was open to anyone with an email address, and an relatively unknown man like Carter who's never run for anything before finished in first because people fell in love with his story.

When Carter retired as a coach and teacher, after forty years, he was making $40,000 a year.

His opponent is worth around 9 million.

Let's prove to America that a poor man can still win a Congressional election.

What's truly amazing about the whole thing is that Roy, by running as a progressive, in rural NC, is poised to win and is in a statistical dead heat in the polls.

And that's because he's taught at four different schools in the district, so he's practically a hero in four separate communities here.

The folks here know him and respect him as a person -and the conservatives are drawn to him because of his southern charm and persona.

His former students and players swear by him and many have volunteered to canvass, phone bank and work the polls for him.

Wish you could see his 250+ pound former offensive linemen going door to door for their coach.

I truly believe he's going to pull this out, and will shock the world getting elected as a progressive in a heavily republican district.


Help us make history:

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/18412

www.roycarterforcongress.com