She ran as Republican in 2004:
Rachel Lea Hunter ran as a Republican for the State Supreme Court in 2004
and was defeated. After a falling out with the North Carolina Republican Party, ...
http://www.ncdp.org/node/1080 She has united DEM and GOP on something:
NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Rachel Lea Hunter Brings Democrats and Republicans Together
(RALEIGH) – Today, in yet another in a series of non-scencical email rants, candidate for North Carolina Supreme Court Rachel Lea Hunter has compared Democrat State Party Chairman Jerry Meek to Adolph Hitler.
http://www.bluenc.com/node/2692?PHPSESSID=3f7f2380f7b2147dad2014c6794e767f Personality change following return of brain tumor
Posted on: 2006/6/14 8:37
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Posts: 54 BlueNC: Is Rachel Lea Hunter MIA?
Lefty blog, BlueNC.com, has finally decided to comment on the latest shenanigans of NC Supreme Court candidate Rachel Lea Hunter and Connie Mack Berry, Jr.
Apparently there is strong suspicion that Hunter is no longer in control of her campaign and has not been for quite some time.
Someone on BlueNC wrote:
Quote:
Connie Mack Berry, Jr. has indeed posted on edcone.com and bluenc.com (on another thread) that Rachel Lea Hunter's brain tumor (that was operated on last year) has returned. It is rumored that due to her illness, she no longer has the facilities to deal with her campaign on a day-to-day basis.
It is very likely that Connie Mack Berry, Jr., for all practical purposes, IS Rachel Lea Hunter these days. Most certainly in recent months, Rachel Lea Hunter's personality has undergone a severe change that has caused her campaign to nose-dive.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:XXvwGwKUQHMJ:www.ncrumors.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php%3Fviewmode%3Dflat%26topic_id%3D554%26forum%3D1+%22rachel+lea+hunter%22+%2B+connie+mack&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=10 Claims endorsements from people who haven't endorsed her:
06/02/2006 7:57:48 AM PDT by CommCtr
Dean Smith Asks Candidate To Remove Endorsement From Web Site
POSTED: 10:35 pm EDT May 22, 2006
UPDATED: 10:35 pm EDT May 22, 2006
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Despite a message posted on her campaign Web site, former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith said Monday he has not endorsed lawyer Rachel Lea Hunter for the state Supreme Court. "I never knew her in my life," Smith said. "I assume I'll vote, but I don't know who I'll vote for."
http://www.wral.com/news/9254945/detail.html More bad judgement
Jerry Meek recommends withholding endorsement:
Rachel Hunter and Vernon Robinson
I've been off showing my editor around the Raleigh beat and working
on a weekend story for most of today. So I almost blew out of here
without a post today, but then an e-mail came my way from N.C. Democratic Party
Chairman Jerry Meek. The money lines:
Today, Rachel Lea Hunter compared Vernon Robinson to a slave in a mass email
and on her website. In response, North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Jerry Meek
made this statement:
“Vernon Robinson is an embarrassment to himself and to the many well-meaning people o
f both parties who hear the call to public service and run for office.
Between now and November, he will run his campaign of sleaze and I am confident
that voters will again reject him. However, today Rachel Lea Hunter crossed the line.
Her characterization of Robinson as a ‘slave’ was reprehensible and I call on
her to apologize. This racial epithet has no place in any political dialogue,
even directed towards someone as contemptible as Vernon Robinson.”
“Consequently, I am announcing today that I will recommend that the
State Democratic Party leadership withhold any endorsement in the
Supreme Court seat that Rachel Lea Hunter is seeking.
Oh no, she didn’t...did she? Well, yes she did.....
more here.....
http://blog.news-record.com/staff/capblog/archives/2006/06/rachel_hunter_a.html Tried to have her name listed as "Madame Justice" on the ballot although she's never been a judge:
Also the Bar Association has endorsed her opponent, who is an incumbent and who
really is a justice. (same link as above).
Hunter's spouse has a checkered background:
Marietta con man sentenced
Date: September 5, 1997 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: D12p/D10 Word Count: 408
Marietta town character and convicted con man Connie Mack Berry Jr. was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison and ordered to repay nearly $285,000 to 27 bilked customers of his former gold and silver business.
Already serving two, one-year sentences for stealing a 2-carat diamond from a Cartersville woman and operating a money order scam in Columbus, Berry also was barred from the precious metals and jewelry business as part of his sentence. Many of Berry's
Colorful Marietta figure faces sentencing
Hearing may be Berry's last on spate of theft indictments
Date: September 1, 1997 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: D2 Word Count: 506
Former Marietta precious metals dealer Connie Mack Berry, a colorful town character remembered for once dressing up in a chicken suit to tweak a political opponent, is expected to be sentenced this week to a third prison term for a long-running financial scam.
The Cobb County court hearing Thursday may be Berry's last on six indictments dating back to 1994, said Assistant District Attorney Rose Wing. Berry, 58, has been in prison since May 1996, when he was sentenced to a year
Gold dealer gets prison for stealing diamond from ring
Date: May 31, 1996 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C2 Word Count: 300
A Marietta gold dealer was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison after pleading guilty in one of several theft cases he faces.
Connie Mack Berry was immediately taken into custody after being sentenced on theft-by-taking charges for stealing a 2-carat diamond from a Cartersville woman.
Mary D. Joseph testified that after her husband died she took Berry $2,000 worth of gold and silver coins last summer to raise money to pay medical bills. She also asked Berry to repair a broken prong on
Gold dealer indicted on theft charges
Date: August 25, 1994 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: G/2 Word Count: 320
Marietta gold dealer Connie Mack Berry Jr. has been indicted on theft charges by a Cobb County grand jury.
The indictment says Berry accepted $90,000 from a Marietta couple who ordered gold coins and gold and silver bars but that Berry only delivered about $19,000 worth of merchandise.
The charge grew out of an earlier criminal warrant taken out by Davis Austin Sauls. The warrant alleged that Berry did not deliver the "agreed-upon purchased materials, nor has he returned
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