John Aneralla

John Aneralla
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Candidate for
North Carolina State Senate District 41
Party	Republican
Websites
Campaign website

John Aneralla was a 2012 Republican candidate for District 41 of the North Carolina State Senate.

He was a Republican for District 41 of the North Carolina State Senate in 2010.

Elections

2012

See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2012

Aneralla ran in the 2012 election for North Carolina State Senate District 41. He advanced to a July 17 runoff where he was defeated by Jeff Tarte.

North Carolina State Senate District 41 Republican Primary, 2012
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Jeff Tarte (advanced to runoff)	37.6%	6,423
John Aneralla (advanced to runoff)	36.3%	6,193
Troy Stafford	10.8%	1,837
Robby Benton	8.3%	1,423
Donald L. Copeland, Sr.	7%	1,194
Total Votes		17,070

2010

See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2010

Aneralla lost in the November 2 general election to incumbent Malcolm Graham (D).

Campaign themes

Aneralla's website talks about the following issues:

• Jobs

Excerpt:

• "Creating the conditions in government that enable businesses of all sizes to grow and prosper."
• "A tax moratorium on all North Carolina manufactured goods."
• "Protecting North Carolina’s “right to work” status."
• "Eliminating burdensome government regulations."

• Taxes

Excerpt:

• "Reducing and flattening the tax rate to be the lowest and simplest in the Southeast."
• "Across the board reductions in corporate, personal income and sales tax rates."
• "Rolling back “temporary” taxes enacted over the past several budgets."
• "Eliminating all state capital gains & interest income taxes."

• Government Spending

Excerpt:

• "Auditing state agencies & programs as to their effectiveness, and then improving or eliminating."
• "Full transparency in the budgeting process, based on clearly established state spending priorities"
• "Limiting the growth of state government spending to not more than inflation plus population growth."
• "Privatizing non-core state functions."
• "Ensuring a public vote on state debt."

• Education

Excerpt:

• "Empowering teachers & school leaders to make decisions at the local level."
• "Continuing to invest in the community college and state university system."
• "Creating a vocational educational track to lower the high school drop-out rate."
• "Lifting the cap on Charter schools."
• "Funding students, not bureaucrats."

External links

• John Aneralla's official campaign website
• North Carolina Department of Elections
• Official Project Vote Smart Bio

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