Bolyn McClung
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Bolyn McClung ran for election to the Pineville Town Council in North Carolina. McClung lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.
McClung completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
McClung has served five years in the U.S. Air Force and works in the printing industry. Some of McClung’s business and civic experiences include serving as chair of the Pineville Zoning Board of Adjustments, serving as a board member for the Civic and Cultural Arts in Pineville and working on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee.[1]
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Pineville, North Carolina (2019)
General election
2013
- See also: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools elections (2013)
McClung ran for the District 6 seat on the school board on November 5, 2013 against Paul Bailey and Doug Wrona.
Results
McClung lost the general election on November 5, 2013.
| Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools General Election, District 6, 4-year term, 2013 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
| |
Nonpartisan |
 Paul Bailey |
59.7% |
8,518 |
| |
Nonpartisan |
Bolyn McClung |
26.7% |
3,805 |
| |
Nonpartisan |
Doug Wrona |
13% |
1,856 |
| |
Nonpartisan |
Write-in |
0.6% |
81 |
| Total Votes |
14,260 |
| Source: Mecklenburg County, "Election Results," accessed December 14, 2013 |
Funding
McClung reported $11,337.26 in contributions and $8,372.23 in expenditures to the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections, which left his campaign with $2,965.03 on hand.[2]
Endorsements
McClung received an endorsement from the Charlotte Observer. [3]
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bolyn McClung completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McClung's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Since landing in Pineville in 2002, I've tried my best to make Pineville and Mecklenburg better places. My first service was eight years as the Pineville Zoning Board of Adjustments chair where resolving citizen differences over property rights is a critical task. When the 2005 county-wide school bond failed, I served on the select committee to find a way to get the next bond passed. It did and I served as the co-chair for the campaign. In the years since I served on every school bond campaign...all successful! On the arts scene I was a board member for the Pineville Civic and Cultural Arts Center. About the same time, I served on Mecklenburg's Community Relations Committee...a group that for 60 years has striven to better citizen interaction. For pre-K students I've donated over 3,000 tablets. Ran unsuccessfully for the school Board. While I lost to a pretty good man, I did garner the Charlotte Observer's endorsement. For the last 5 years I've served as one of 14 county-wide members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission. And lastly, four years in the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence analyst. It's a wild mix of services. The skills and knowledge picked-up along the way are just what a town councilman needs. Conflict Resolution, Schools, Finance, Arts, Community Relations, Technology and Planning. The life I have chosen has prepared me to serve Pineville as a Council member.
- Small town governments are the bedrock of America. Those who wish to serve must come to the offices prepared with an understanding of the many responsibilities. I feel my 18 years of public service will translate well into being a town council member.
- Pineville is only 4 miles square but offers the surrounding area an escape from the hubbub of Charlotte. It is important that as the town feels the pressures to keep-up with Charlotte that it not become Charlotte.
- On the ballot is a referendum to add council members and districts. This is an unnecessary change.
Public safety is the number one responsibility of any town. It needs constant review and good staff to pull it off. For a town our small physical size it has an over-abundance of vulnerable public places. The town's budget must recognize this as it considers the costs of fire and police.||The town relies on its relationship with state government. Working the state capitol is a necessary part of job that most citizens never see. ||Whether a small town or huge city, providing a fair wage for employees and retaining them is difficult because governments are unable to compete with private enterprises. Our town must be a place where policy makes employees and their families feel appreciated.|
Town Council member is a small fish. Most of the time town citizens don't know who she is. But because the town is feeling the pressure to grow, the Council's power over development is mighty.
As a youth, my family moved 30 times before we settled in Charlotte in 1961. There wasn't much of an opportunity to establish a model or hero outside of the typical sports icon. But later when I began to understand that the best famous people have that recognition not because they were popular but for what they did, I saw that Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln were driven men who worked hard not to falter. Jackson was a flawed character but understood that the states had to stay together. Lincoln completed that task.||And last, Harry T. Burn. Who you ask? He cast the deciding vote for the 19th Amendment in the Tennessee state legislature in 1920. Was he a liberal? No, a red rose conservative! But he had a letter from his mother in his coat asking him to 'be a good boy' and vote yes. Harry had already committed to vote against the amendment but honored his mother's wish.|
Caine Mutiny and Twelve Angry Men. Both were movies based on books. Caine Mutiny is best as a book. Twelve Angry Men as a movie.
Humility and being prepared to make decisions.
I've served in a lot of appointed roles. Each gradually brought me to the realization that the folks who are employed to work in government are the real workhorses. It is leadership's combined role of guidance and then support that help communities function well. That lesson didn't come overnight. I spent a lot of days and years learning it. I don't plan to forget.
Available! Available to study. Available to listen. Available to act...and not act when necessary.
A place folks want to live.
There are two.|I lived behind Cape Canaveral, FL. I watched one day as a test missile that was supposed to go over the Atlantic explode in the air. I was in the elementary playground during school. ||No person of my generation was unaffected by the Kennedy Assassination. I was 15 and carried the newspaper with the headline the next morning. I still have the paper.|
Back when everyone got the newspaper...remember that?...I was a newspaper carrier from 9 years old and was so until I graduated from high school. 8 years at one job...not bad.
Buffalo Bill.|I moved so many times in elementary school I was able to use it over and over again for book reports. Shameful!!
Forget fictional characters. There are too many real people that surprise me everyday.
How Could Anyone Ever Tell You?
Remembering names!!!!!!!!!
Town Council member is not an Earth-shaking role. However, a member's conduct affects the concept of democracy. Once a citizen is exposed to public corruption or distain it sticks with her for a life-time.
Town government is entry level stuff. Good sense will do the job. Anyone with ability to listen and life experiences can be a success.
Understanding that public's money can only be spent once helps a lot. Not being god-like is essential.
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See also
External links
- ↑ "CMS School Board," "Meet the District 6 Candidates," accessed September 16, 2012
- ↑ "Mecklenburg County Board of Elections," "Mecklenburg County Campaign Finance Reports," accessed December 23, 2013, 2013
- ↑ Ballotpedia Editor, "Email communication with Ballotpedia, October 9, 2019"
