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Doug Hammack
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Elections and appointments
Last election

November 8, 2022

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Doug Hammack ran for election to the Wake County Public School System to represent District 3 in North Carolina. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Hammack completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Wake County Public School System, North Carolina, elections (2022)

General election

General election for Wake County Public School System, District 3

Wing Ng defeated Doug Hammack and Brooks Lowe in the general election for Wake County Public School System, District 3 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Wing Ng
Wing Ng (Nonpartisan)
 
49.3
 
25,850
Image of Doug Hammack
Doug Hammack (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
41.5
 
21,736
Brooks Lowe (Nonpartisan)
 
8.7
 
4,559
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.5
 
263

Total votes: 52,408
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Doug Hammack completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hammack's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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The direction of my life was fundamentally changed by a strong, healthy public school system.I owe a debt to teachers, school board members, county commissioners, and state representatives who invested heavily in education in the years before I went to school. Consequently, I'm a strong advocate for public schools. They are our society's best hope for economic prosperity, a shared social narrative, an informed citizenry, and a thriving democracy. I hate the narrative that has emerged, that public schools, and teachers in particular, are the PROBLEM. No! They are the SOLUTION to our problems. They are the source of everything good we want for our society.
  • Support Our Teachers. Teachers are worn down after three very difficult years. Morale is low. Pay is low. Working conditions are difficult. I am running to support teachers.
  • Change The Narrative. A hyperpolarized story has emerged lately, that schools are doing poorly. Maybe some are, but not WCPSS. We are doing great. We are the envy of other counties and stats. I'm running to change the narrative, to tell what's going RIGHT about our schools.
  • Fund Schools. Our General Assembly has been failing to sind our tax money back to our schools, as they are constitutionally obligated to do. School Board can't change that, but we can lobby our citizens to lobby our state to fulfill their educational obligations.
Had I been asked to run for any other office than School Board, I would said "no." I am singularly focused on the transformative power of education to change people's lives. Education transformed my life, my children's (and now grandchildren's) lives in WCPSS. In my career (minister for 30 years), I've seen the power of education to fundamentally change how we live out lives. My singular passion IS education. It's why I'm running.

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