Jonathan Jordan Will Once Again Face a Primary Opponent

Robert Block, a student at Appalachian State University, has announced a bid to unseat NC House Rep. Jonathan Jordan in next year's Republican primary. Block is 19 years old.

He has a website and a platform that heavily stresses support for public education (as did Lew Hendricks, Jordan's Republican opponent in 2016).

Primary Results

Some takeaways from yesterday's primary:

1. Ted Cruz outpolled Donald Trump in Watauga.

2. The total Democratic ballots cast yesterday in Watauga = 1,181 more individual ballots than the total Republican ballots case for all 13 presidential candidates (including "No Preference").

3. Bernie Sanders buried Hillary Clinton in Watauga. The interest in that race obviously explains # 2 above.

4. Incumbent NC House Rep. Jonathan Jordan easily beat challenger Lew Hendricks, which is too bad.

5. Second-time Democratic candidate Sue Counts easily beat challenger Ronnie Marsh.

6. Franklin Graham's tool Deanna Ballard edged the vastly more qualified Ken Boham in the Dist. 45 NC Senate Republican primary, 52.96% to 47.04%. Boham should have won it.

7. Former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker won his Secretary of Labor primary and is well set up to take on and beat incumbent disgrace Cherie Berry, "the elevator lady."

8. Ron Elmer, the more qualified candidate in the Democratic primary for Treasurer, took Watauga County but lost the state to Dan Blue III, who can still win the general election on the strength of his name alone.

9. Linda Coleman won the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor. Watauga County went for  her opponent Holly Jones, a Buncombe County Commissioner.

Lew Hendricks Forces a Primary on Jonathan Jordan

Watauga County resident Lew Hendricks filed to run in the Republican primary for North Carolina House, Dist. 93, and issued the following statement:

TO: Watauga and Ashe County Republican and Independent Voters

Jonathan Jordan hasn't earned the right to have a free pass in the Republican primary.

The Republican and Independent voters in Watauga and Ashe County deserve to have a choice. I will give them that choice.

1. A vote for me is a vote for an unwavering commitment to public education.

2. It is a vote to represent the best interests of the people of Watauga and Ashe County and not the special interests.

These are the two most glaring differences I offer to the Republican and Independent voters in the 2016 primary. Politicians love to talk about their support of public education and representing the best interest of their constituents. 

It's time they start doing it.

Jordan has not yet filed for reelection but is expected to do so.  On the Democratic side, Sue Counts, who ran against Jordan in 2014, filed for a rematch today.

An Announced Candidate for NC House

Lew Hendricks has a website up saying he's a candidate for NC House.

No indication of party affiliation on this website, and no discussion of any issues.

There is a Lewis Hendricks registered in Watauga County. He's registered Republican.