Eric Mansfield
Eric Mansfield is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina State Senate, representing District 21 from 2011 to 2013.
Mansfield was a 2020 candidate for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina.[1] On July 5, 2019, Mansfield withdrew from the election.[2]
Biography
Mansfield received a commission in the U.S. Army through ROTC. He worked at the Womack Army Medical Center as a Battalion Medical Officer and later as the Chief of Otolaryngology Services. He was deployed to Kosovo before returning to civilian life and opening his own practice. At the time of the election, he was pursuing a master's degree in health policy at UNC Chapel Hill.
He attended Howard University for his bachelor's degree and then attended Morehouse School of Medicine. [3]
Committee assignments
2011-2012
In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Mansfield served on these committees:
Elections
2012
Mansfield ran for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 2012. He lost to Linda Coleman in the May 8th primary.[4]
Issues
Mansfield discussed his campaign with North Carolina Now Senior Correspondent Kelly McCullen:
2010
Mansfield won election to District 21 of the North Carolina State Senate in the November 2 general election, defeating Wade Fowler (R).[5]
| North Carolina Senate, General Election Results, District 21 (2010) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Votes | Percent | ||
 Eric Mansfield (D)
|
21,004 | 67.61% | ||
| Wade Fowler (R) | 10,062 | 32.39% | ||
Mansfield defeated four challengers in the Democratic primary.
| North Carolina State Senate Democratic Primary, District 21 (2010) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Votes | |||
| Eric Mansfield
|
2,813 | |||
| Lula Crenshaw | 2,315 | |||
| Curtis Worthy | 1,978 | |||
| Eugene Stackhouse | 533 | |||
| Robert Evans | 454 | |||
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Eric Mansfield did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2012
Mansfield's website talked about the following issues:
- Healthcare
- Excerpt: "...I support fair and equitable tort reform, Medicaid cost and fraud control, and greater free market competition among health care providers."
- Education and Employment
- Excerpt: "I believe that meeting the challenges of employment and education in North Carolina are one in the same. Economic recovery in North Carolina will be dependent on our ability to produce a competitive work force which can retain and attract new jobs to our state."
- North Carolina’s Economic Recovery
- Excerpt: "We need a workforce which attracts businesses to Cumberland County. A highly skilled work force will drive the next generation of sustained prosperity in our county and state."
Campaign finance summary
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Personal
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Mansfield and his wife Donna have two children.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Eric Mansfield's official campaign website
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Legislative profile from Project Vote Smart
- Campaign Contributions: 2010
Footnotes
- ↑ The News & Observer, "His heart stopped and he crashed his car. Now this Democrat is running for US Senate," June 18, 2019
- ↑ SF Gate, "Democrat Mansfield drops out of 2020 US Senate race," July 5, 2019
- ↑ Eric Mansfield, NC Senate
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedncboe - ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections, "2010 General Election Results," accessed March 25, 2015
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Larry Shaw (D) |
North Carolina State Senate District 21 2011-2013 |
Succeeded by Ben Clark (D) |
