Alsey Heth Hopkins
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Alsey Heth Hopkins (Republican Party) ran for election to the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 25. He lost in the Republican primary on May 17, 2022.
Hopkins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Alsey Heth Hopkins was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He earned an associate degree from Nash Community College in 2021. He also attended North Carolina State University.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 25
Allen Chesser II defeated incumbent James Gailliard and Nick Taylor in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 25 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Allen Chesser II (R)  | 52.9 | 17,903 |
 | James Gailliard (D) | 44.7 | 15,128 | |
| Nick Taylor (L) | 2.5 | 841 | ||
| Total votes: 33,872 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent James Gailliard advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 25.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 25
Allen Chesser II defeated Yvonne McLeod and Alsey Heth Hopkins in the Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 25 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Allen Chesser II | 49.7 | 3,631 |
| Yvonne McLeod | 45.5 | 3,322 | ||
| Alsey Heth Hopkins | 4.8 | 348 | ||
| Total votes: 7,301 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Nick Taylor advanced from the Libertarian primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 25.
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Alsey Heth Hopkins completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hopkins' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am Alsey Hopkins. I am a college student at NC State pursuing a history major and I am running for my state house seat at 22 years of age. I am conservative with a passion for North Carolina matched by none. My future is in Nash County and I want to fight for the best future possible. I am a fighter, unwilling to bend on my core principles. At my college in Raleigh it is rare for me to meet someone who speaks with an accent or is from North Carolina. The people of North Carolina are being left behind in favor of growing the GDP by bringing in outside business. It looks good on paper but the reality is that the people who have been here for years are being ignored. Those are the people I am fighting for, people like me. I want to grow North Carolina from inside rather than relying on migration. I live by our state's motto, To be rather than to seem.
- My campaign aims to be more than a campaign but a movement to revitalize North Carolina's politics with young conservative leadership.
- We must grow what we have here. North Carolina has made it a policy to bring in northern industry to grow our economy but this has only brought massive support for the left from these northern workers. We as the GOP need to stop this self destructive cycle and look inward and provide jobs to our voters.
- My time in office will be focused heavily on raising up North Carolina's people by reforming the school system, giving people the power to open new businesses, and protecting our local way of life.
Day one upon being elected I will lay out a comprehensive education reform for North Carolina Public Schools. The tools are all there and there is plenty of knowledge to create a robust education system. The existing education system has foundational issues in the way that it focuses on grading as opposed to teaching and it fails to prepare students for the real world. Teachers are also abused by the system, forced to pay out of pocket for a great deal of supplies and are forced to change and adapt to the constantly changing curriculum. In my vision, everything from the school layouts to the food the students eat would be overhauled with the entire bill being carefully written to attempt to meet every group's needs. Secondly, I want to address the hollowing out of the cultural identity of North Carolina which has seen a drastic decrease in the native dialect and its customs. There is not a one catch all bill for this but many laws could be enacted to attempt to help enrich the state's identity and celebrate the state. In my opinion, people who don't hold pride in themselves cannot hope to achieve truly great things so seeing North Carolina as a more patriotic and unified place is very important to me and our future.
I look up to my grandfather's perhaps the most. My mother's father was of a different age he came from the Virginia mountains and loved to work the land. He hunted and fished when he could and studied nature. He would tell me stories about history showing me his Indian arrowhead and pottery collection. His love of books and learning he passed on to me. My other grandfather I admire as he raised my family from the poverty it once dwelled in for generations. He was the first to go to college and all my life he has been one to fix and repair things. His love of politics no doubt rubbed off on me as he has always watched the news everyday keeping up with every minor event. My parents each gave me something as well, my mother gave to me the spirit of wanting to stand up and change the world. My father he gave me a love of family history and who we are.
An elected leader needs to understand that leading is about other people not yourself. Leading means in some cases putting other's needs before your own and making tough choices when the moment calls for it. Patriotic love of ones area is very important in my opinion. Lastly a leader in office must care about the future. Government is all about attempting to predict and overcome present and future challenges.
My greatest quality in my view is the love I feel for my people and state. It is what drove me to run for this office in the first place and it is why I have so many bold plans for time in office. Another area I believe I would be successful in is that I have the ability to work with people from all political viewpoints and foster good relationships with them even if we do not agree on policy.
The core responsibilities should be to create laws to address issues facing the nation and people but also to inform the people you represent and to raise them up with the powers of your office.
I want to leave a legacy as a someone who cared for his state and rose it to new heights. I want North Carolina to be then envy of the world.
I remember the invasion of Iraq and how people had to leave for war. However, the most impactful I would say was the crash of 08 and the Great Recession as they have named it. I would've been around 9 at the time. It was a very hard time for me and my mother. Most people around us struggled I remember and it has made me very tight with my money. I don't spend it often and I save as much as I can.
My first job was working with my father at his business in Spring Hope. It was part time due to the fact I was in college in Nashville at that time but I enjoyed the job. I liked working the field those days that we did it remined me of my
I have struggled a lot with mental illness and poverty. My family has been broken since I was very young and I have dealt with abuses and going without. These challenges only served to make me a stronger fighter and gave me a passion for those around me who suffered the same trials.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 5, 2022
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