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Buncombe County commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara will run for the Democratic nomination in the 11th Congressional district in Western North Carolina next year. Beach-Ferrara is the first Democrat to formally announce a run to unseat freshman Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn.
Beach-Ferrara was elected to her second term on the county board last year. She’s also the founding executive director of the Campaign for Southern Equality, and an ordained minister. Beach-Ferrara released a video announcing her candidacy Wednesday morning, and unveiled her campaign team.
“I’m running because Western North Carolina families deserve better than they’re getting from Madison Cawthorn. My faith teaches me that leadership starts with empathy, compassion, and listening and then getting to work to help people. That’s the kind of leadership I want to offer instead of the division and mean-spiritedness we’re getting now,” said Beach-Ferrara in a statement. “T
By Peter H. Lewis & AVL Watchdog
• Jan 18, 2021 Cawthorn For NC Twitter account
In the middle of the siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6, while a mob of insurrectionists still roamed the halls and ransacked offices, leaving five dead and dozens injured, Madison Cawthorn called a friendly conservative radio host and blamed the violence on left-wing agitators sent by “the Democratic machine” to make President Trump look bad.
“I believe that this was agitators strategically placed inside of this group you can call them antifa, you can call them people paid by the Democratic machine but to make the Trump campaign, the Trump movement, look bad. And to make this look like it was a violent outrage, when really the battle was being fought by people like myself and other great patriots who are standing up against the establishment and standing up against this tyranny that we see in our country.”