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Dennis Britt
Dennis Britt (Republican Party) ran for election to the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 19. He lost in the Republican primary on May 17, 2022.
Britt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Dennis Britt was born in Lumberton, North Carolina. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1983 to 1992. He earned a bachelor's degree from Campbell University in 2019.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for North Carolina State Senate District 19
Val Applewhite defeated Wesley Meredith in the general election for North Carolina State Senate District 19 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Val Applewhite (D) | 52.7 | 30,755 |
![]() | Wesley Meredith (R) | 47.3 | 27,601 |
Total votes: 58,356 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 19
Val Applewhite defeated incumbent Kirk deViere and Ed Donaldson in the Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 19 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Val Applewhite | 56.2 | 7,588 |
Kirk deViere ![]() | 36.9 | 4,972 | ||
Ed Donaldson | 6.9 | 931 |
Total votes: 13,491 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 19
Wesley Meredith defeated Dennis Britt in the Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 19 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Wesley Meredith | 72.4 | 5,781 |
![]() | Dennis Britt ![]() | 27.6 | 2,202 |
Total votes: 7,983 | ||||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dennis Britt completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Britt's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- Individual Prosperity is the opposite of Poverty. Social Services spending shows the magnitude of Poverty in our State. Poverty is growing because we fail to properly develop the individual’s skills, abilities, and behavior needed to accumulate wealth. I will work to correct our cultural and Education Establishment’s failure to prepare a major part of our population for self-sufficiency.
- Economic Growth is a natural outcome of increasing Individual Prosperity. I will push for developing District 19 new businesses while also developing the workforce to fill these added jobs.
- Justice, as an aspirational virtue, is the foundation of our Nation. The Individual Rights of Personhood, Property and Promises must be protected by Government to allow citizens to produce value for each other and others. Law Enforcement Officers and Judicial Administration must be strongly supported against offenders of those Individual Rights.
Effective because Government's purpose is to advance society and resolve obstacles to a better life for the citizen, not an existence for magnifying itself.
Education Policy is the foundation for advancing society. Proper content, context and pedagogy are necessary to graduate people prepared for a meaningful, engaged and prosperous life of self-sufficiency.
Adam Smith, Philosopher and Father of Economics, publisher of The Theory of Moral Sentiment and "Wealth of Nations". (circa 1756). He expressed that the mandatory function of a successful government is to Protect the Individual Rights of Person, Property and Promises. All other government engagement should be limited to those things that only government can do, leaving all benevolence programs to Private Civil Organizations of the Heart.
Cincinnatus, (when Dictator wasn't a derogatory title), who was George Washington's role model for performing his duty and service to the nation, then surrendering his command and power when the crisis and term ended.
Frederick Douglass, born a slave, who against all odds (by his own volition) learned to read, write and perform mathematics in his preparation for becoming a great man, orator and abolitionist and statesman. He was an early advocate for desegregation and women's suffrage. In a November 15, 1867, speech he said "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box..."
What Adam Smith Knew (James R. Otteson, 2014)
I believe in and strive to exhibit “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ c 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ d 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
The Vietnam War, our effort to stop the spread of Marxism(Socialism/Communism, etc.) was always on the news. Every family had someone involved in the war.
The most viable solution is to reduce the NEED for government dependency. Self sufficiency will reduce the need, but the common government methodology of blowing "left over money" to zero out the account at the end of year must stop. If the need is met, return the excess money to the working people (taxpayers).
Familiarity with processes can be taught quick enough for newcomers.
If the issue is rightfully under the purview of the limited government, compromise between the details of the recognized need and the approach to meet that need are valid. Policies and programs should meet a clearly-defined, constitutionally-authorized goal before pursuing a "compromise" on spending magnitude.
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2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 5, 2022