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Kiser, Forester win House, Senate vote From staff reports September 11, 2002 - Rep. Joe Kiser, R-Vale, easily defeated David Nole, taking 70 percent of the vote in the GOP primary race in the new House District which is now wholly made up of Lincoln County. Sen. Jim Forester of Stanley, a physician who is now Lincoln’s incumbent senator, defeated challenger Ronald Pope in the GOP primary, taking 80 percent of the vote throughout his district. In Lincoln County he took 81 percent of the vote. Kiser said he was pleased to be Lincoln County’s sole representative. “It gave me back some people I missed working with,” said Kiser, a former Lincoln County sheriff. “I’m please to have the city of Lincolnton in my district.” Rep. Dan Barefoot, D-Lincolnton, decided not to run against Kiser for the new seat, but Kiser said he knew that Barefoot, a friend, could have run against him. Barefoot will remain in the spotlight, he said. “You haven’t heard the last of Dan Barefoot. He’s got lots of mountains to climb.” Kiser said the redistricting process has probably weakened Lincoln county’s representation by reducing the number of representatives to a single voice. Kiser will face Democrat Floyd Mason in the November General election. Several races in the General Assembly went down to the wire in an unusual primary that pitted incumbents against each other under North Carolina’s newly redrawn legislative districts. The race between Democratic Sens. Ellie Kinnaird and Howard Lee of Orange County ended inconclusively Tuesday night as both candidates collected 50 percent of the vote. primaries included Democrat Deborah Ross, former head of the state American Civil Liberties Union, in House District 38 in Wake County. She beat former Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Alexander Killens. Former Wake County Manager Richard Stevens won the Republican primary in House District 17. Two Democratic legislators appointed to their seats this year failed to win election in their own right. Rep. Shelly Willingham of Edgecombe County, appointed to fill the term of Toby Fitch, lost to Jean Farmer Butterfield on Tuesday. Fitch left the General Assembly to become a judge.
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