“I felt like I had no political home,” Rhinehardt said. “I think I’m on a mission to create one. Not just for me but people who feel the same that I do.”
Rhinehardt, 46, hopes to succeed GOP Sen. Richard Burr, who announced several years ago his plans not to seek another term in 2022.
Rhinehardt, who once worked for Burr as a U.S. House staffer, also previously worked as a lobbyist for the University of North Carolina system. She’s now also a faculty member at UNC-Wilmington.
Rhinehardt said her campaign will be about “finding new voices and offering better choices” for North Carolina voters. She said her beliefs have aligned with both Burr and former UNC system President Erskine Bowles, a Democrat who was once President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff.
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The chairman of the City Council’s Budget Committee said Thursday she is laying the groundwork to join the field of candidates seeking to replace retiring Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White.
If she takes the plunge, Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) would join a wide-open field of candidates that already includes City Clerk Anna Valencia and former State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias. Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough is also considering a run for the patronage-rich office.
Giannoulias is a statewide vote-getter and proven fundraiser who lost the 2010 race for the U.S. Senate by fewer than 60,000 votes to Republican Mark Kirk.
Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House. We look at where they’ve been, what they’re doing now, and what we might expect them to do as lawmakers.
The 2021-22 session began in late January. Expect COVID-19 and the ongoing fallout from the pandemic to be top priorities for lawmakers, who are crafting a new budget for the biennium. They’ll also draw new legislative and congressional maps for the next decade based on fresh census data. Each legislator, too, has their own priorities.
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