William Cook (North Carolina)

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William Cook
North Carolina State Senate District 1
Incumbent
In office
2013 - Present
Term ends
January 1, 2015
Years in position	2
Party	Republican
Compensation
Base salary	$13,951/year
Per diem	$104/day
Elections and appointments
Last election	November 6, 2012
First elected	2010
Next election	November 4, 2014
Term limits	N/A
Prior offices
North Carolina House of Representatives District 6
2011-2013
Education
Bachelor's	University of Maryland. 1970
Personal
Profession	Retired
Religion	Baptist
Websites
Office website
Campaign website

William Cook is a Republican member of the North Carolina State Senate, representing District 1 since 2013. He previously represented District 6 in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013.

He spent thirty-four years working for Potomac Electric Power company, in which time he worked his way from an analyst position to various managerial positions. He has been active in his local Republican Party, including serving as the Finance Director for the Beaufort County Republican Party.

Cook holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Maryland. He is married to Holly Cook, and has two children, Kerri and Billy, and two grandchildren, Calli and Adelade. He and his wife live in Beaufort County.

Committee assignments

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Cook served on the following committees:

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Cook served on the following committees:

Issues

Campaign themes

Cook's website highlights the following campaign themes:

Reduce Unemployment

• Excerpt:"Raising taxes and inhibiting small businesses from growing is the wrong approach - the solution is quite the opposite. We can get people back to work by reducing the size of government and state spending which will allow us to lower taxes. We can eliminate unnecessary regulations to liberate small businesses and give them more room to grow."

Smaller Budgets

• Excerpt:"We must dramatically reduce spending and the size of government in our state. So that we can lower taxes and encourage small business to produce the jobs that are key to our economic health. We must require our state agencies to use “zero budgeting” and prioritize their planned spending and have the courage to force our legislators to reduce our budget each year until we have a healthy economy again."

Decrease Taxes

• Excerpt:"We must reduce all our state taxes as quickly and reasonably each year until our state is known as the business friendly state. Tax reduction will require courage and fortitude in the face of all the short sighted special interest groups clamoring for money from state funds. If we make these reductions, our economy will bloom and high unemployment will disappear. We can do this if we have the heart."

Elections

2012

See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2012

Cook did not run for re-election to the state House and instead ran in District 1 of the State Senate. He defeated Jerry Evans in the May 8 Republican primary and defeated incumbent Stan M. White (D) in the November 6, 2012 general election.

North Carolina State Senate, District 1, General Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	William Cook	50%	43,735
	Democratic	Stan White Incumbent	50%	43,714
Total Votes				87,449

North Carolina State Senate District 1 Republican Primary, 2012
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
William Cook	62.9%	8,243
Jerry Evans	37.1%	4,855
Total Votes		13,098

2010

See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2010

On November 2, 2010 Cook won election to the North Carolina House of Representatives, defeating Arthur Williams (D).

North Carolina House of Representatives, General Election Results, District 6 (2010)
Candidates		Votes	Percent
William Cook (R)		12,910	53.45%
Arthur Williams (D)		11,242	46.55%

Campaign donors

2012

Campaign donor information is not yet available for this year.

2010

In 2010, Cook raised a total of $130,230 in campaign contributions.

His eleven largest campaign contributors in 2010 were:

Donor	Amount
North Carolina Republican Party	$44,204
Pope, James Arthur	$4,000
Petro, Jeff	$4,000
Bender II, Neil Carmichael	$4,000
Danny McComas Campaign	$4,000
Pope, John W	$4,000
Pope, Amanda Joyce	$4,000
Stam for House	$4,000
Bender, Bridget H	$4,000
Pope, Katherine	$4,000
Cmte to Elect Thomas Tillis	$4,000

No-New-Taxes Pledge

Nine of North Carolina’s 45 incoming freshman state legislators signed a pledge to "oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes." The pledge was in line with each of their campaign promises to fix the state’s fiscal hole without resorting to tax hikes. At the time they signed the pledge, North Carolina was looking at a budget deficit as high as $4 billion in 2011.

Cook signed the pledge in November 2010.

Personal

Cook and his wife Holly have two children.

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• Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer Testify In Front of Senate ... - Mac Rumors
• How Disaster in Oklahoma Can Show Government Works - Yahoo! News
• Patty Murray in 19 Takes - The American Prospect - The American Prospect
• Sen. Bill Cook reports #7 - Beaufort Observer - Beaufort Observer
• Bill Cook's S 129 gets passed. Limits state borrowing without approval by the ... - Beaufort Observer
• Smoking ban rollback wins first vote - WRAL.com
• Teens spearheaded Louisville desegregation effort - Ct Post
• Advocates fear bill's impact on women - Asheville Citizen-Times
• DC Celebrities: Check Out Some Stars You May Not Know Hail From The District - Huffington Post
• Energy bill shows voice vote unreliable - WRAL.com

External links

Suggest a link

• Official Campaign Website
• House website
• Biography from Project Vote Smart
• Legislative profile from Project Vote Smart
• Campaign Contributions: 2010
• North Carolina State Board of Elections, Official Primary Election Results

References

Political offices
Preceded by Stan White (D)	North Carolina State Senate - District 1 2013-present	Succeeded by N/A
Preceded by Arthur Williams	North Carolina House - District 6 2011–2013	Succeeded by Paul Tine (D)