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Mack Wilder
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Mack Wilder (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 74. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 5, 2024.
Wilder completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Mack Wilder was born in Westminster, California. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1980 to 1984. His career experience includes working as a project coordinator and screenplay writer. He has been affiliated with The American Legion and The Marine Corp League.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 74
Incumbent Jeff Zenger defeated Amy Taylor North in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 74 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff Zenger (R) | 51.8 | 26,908 |
 | Amy Taylor North (D)  | 48.2 | 25,015 | |
| Total votes: 51,923 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 74
Amy Taylor North defeated Mack Wilder in the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 74 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Amy Taylor North | 79.7 | 4,954 |
 | Mack Wilder | 20.3 | 1,259 | |
| Total votes: 6,213 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Jeff Zenger advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 74.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Wilder in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mack Wilder completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wilder's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My name is Mack Wilder and I running for NC House District 74. I am running because I care. I am running because I am tired of seeing Republicans run unopposed. I am running because the Marine Corp taught me that we are only as strong as our weakest link. There is a sector of our population that feels as though their situation isn't getting any better, their dollar doesn't go as far and they keep falling further behind as raises are few and far between and inflation makes it harder to keep up. People don't feel like they have a voice. I want to be that voice. I have always been called to serve. I want to listen. Thats who I am and why I am running for North Carolina House District 74.
I will work for the people of District 74 and the citizens of North Carolina, crafting legislation to brings relief to those who struggle. It start with flipping North Carolina House Seat 74 from red to blue.
- I will work hard to continue expanding medicare and medicaid until everyone is covered. It took us ten years to expand medicaid. We recently added an additional 600,000 people. How many people died waiting for medicaid expansion? Why is it so hard to understand that access to affordable quality healthcare is a right not a privilege. After the recent expansion of medicaid passed it still left two to three hundred thousand without coverage. I don't want to wait another ten years to get them covered.
- I want to use matching grants to help take care of our vets who make up 7% of our population, but also make up 13% of our homeless population. I want to see us reverse the suicide rates of our vets. One is too many, but for the past twenty years we lost more than six-thousand suicides a year. That's more than 180,000 vets. Why isn't somebody doing something about it? If they are, Why isn't it working? I want to address that need with matching grants. I also want to see what other matching grant uses we can find to help those nonprofit organizations that do the hard work providing food and shelter to those in need. We need more food banks, clinics, shelters and free pharmacies. I will work to lower poverty rates.
- I want to raise salaries for those professions that are so important to our society. Teachers, Bus Drivers, Paramedics Policemen and Firemen. Society can't function without them. I want to make their college education free predicated on service after college. We have too many vacancies in these professions. I want to bring back Masters pay for teachers. It is not rocket science, we know when the salary is high enough when we have no more vacancies.
My passion will be bringing community projects to District 74. Expanding our green spaces, improving our parks and civic centers. Ending spam calls so when our phone rings we don't need to wonder should I pick or let it go to message. I do not believe companies have a right to call you. I have asked so many spammers to take me off your phone list and the calls get more frequent. I promise I will not use any calls from robots. I personally made 50 or so calls today leaving messages and openly conversing with several voters.
Here is an issue I am passionate about, turning in a budget on time. I want to make it a law that the party in the majority must submit their budget on time or they will forfeit their right to the minority.
Here is an issue I am passionate about, turning in a budget on time. I want to make it a law that the party in the majority must submit their budget on time or they will forfeit their right to the minority.
Martin Luther King Jr, I admire his commitment to non violent peaceful protest and his inspiration insights.
The Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn. I believe Howard gives us a factual unvarnished fact base accounting of how our country survived some self inflicted wounds and highlight the triumphs as well. History is important its also important that it isn't written with a slant. People should know when they gained the right to vote. The importance of dessent and peaceful protest and civil liberties. The importance of making sure we don't create monopolies. We see this in healthcare, banking and utility companies today. Our constitution doesn't To the company, for the company and by the company.
Integrity and transparency. I want to give honest answers to honest questions. Its isn't hard at least from where I sit. If you can't tell the difference from right or wrong you shouldn't hold office. My Republican opponent is righting legislation that will help his fellow developers. This happens all to often because the salary is too low. It limits attracting quality candidates, because you need a job that will tolerate the time off to do your job in Raleigh. That all to often in business owners, John Q Citizen gets left out of the process. If we increased the salary and increased the time the legislature in session we can get more done and attract more individuals to serve.
We need to put people first. I firmly believe that corporations are not people. We need corporations, don't get me wrong, but they have too much power they use their money to buy influence and it corrupts the system. We need to publicly fund campaigns. That will level the playing field and keep corporation out of our government. The reason Medicaid expansion was pair up with a casino bill was because the casino industry a three million dollar contribution. Its a perfect example of how broken our system currently is.
We need to put people first. I firmly believe that corporations are not people. We need corporations, don't get me wrong, but they have too much power they use their money to buy influence and it corrupts the system. We need to publicly fund campaigns. That will level the playing field and keep corporation out of our government. The reason Medicaid expansion was pair up with a casino bill was because the casino industry a three million dollar contribution. Its a perfect example of how broken our system currently is.
Integrity a commitment to the truth the desire for transparency.
Be good stewards of the peoples money. Refuse to funnel public moneys to private schools. We should find ways to bring all of our schools to state of the art facilities focusing on those areas that have the least and need the most. We must find ways to make our schools safe.
That I did what I could, with what I had, given the place I was at the time and I was fair.
Bootcamp. Jimmy Carter tried to rescue our hostages being held in Iran. The rescue failed. Our senior drill instructor sat us all down and said we are going to war. 19.
A construction laborer two years then I joined the Marine Corp.
Breathless by David Quammen. It is by far the best historical account of the COVID epidemic. How it started. When we first knew we could not contain it, without vaccines. Very informative it had hundreds of interviews with scientist. I always want to learn something when I pick up a book. That book delivered.
KC and the Sunshine Band's Get Down Tonight.
I have had a blessed life but losing my child weeks away from viability was the hardest thing I have ever experienced.
It should be balanced, Our founders never thought there should be unchecked power, but the relationship should also be a cooperative one so we get the peoples business done. We saw the legislative branch intentionally strip the governor of power for political gain and that is wrong regardless of who does it. I am against gerrymandering as it is used today.
Public Education, Healthcare and Senior Care.
Our public education needs to be well rounded we need to insure arts and music remain in place and funding for arts and music should be expanded not cut. We should stop teaching the the test its unproductive, it drives teachers to early retirement and it is an unfunded mandate. Our monies for education could be used for hirer priorities. Our children need to be well rounded citizens not robots who test well.
Health care for all. I personally know what its like to lose your job, lose your healthcare and have a major medical event. no one should base a decision on whether to seek medical treatment based on cost. So many other countries provide healthcare for all of its people. We should be able to do it as well.
absolutely not.
Yes compromise is necessary. Networking with other legislators lets us know where the vote count will be, Bringing bills up for a vote knowing it doesn't have the votes to pass wastes everyones time. Networking is necessary so we can get work done.
John Blust a republican state legislature. John inspired me to run and how to run. He knocked on my door and asked for my vote. He was one of the few republicans I voted for. We had a military connection as well, John was in the Army and I was in the Marine Corp.
I would if asked, but it would be after my term is over. I would also be interested in serving again in the same position. I am not in it for power. I just want to serve. I am a firm believer term limits.
I hear from citizens every day pay raises and sad stories of how people are waited for medicaid expansion their specific story was about insulin these hybrid insulins are expensive and their son an adul has tried but failed to get medicaid. I believe he is on medicaid now. His parents were very concerned for their son and an as a diabetic I could sympithize with their situation.
How many psychiatrist does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but the light bulb must want to change.
My answer would be situational in times of natural disaster yes oversight might hinder the response times. In limiting the power of local government to self govern no. I do believe that the legislature should oversee more times than not, it needs to be a tool used but not over used.
A bill that compels the party in power to submit a budget on time, Should they fail to the minority party would get to submit the budget. This would insure budgets are submitted on time. I would also require enough time to read the budget before voting on it. Our last budget was delivered three months late, six hundred and thirty pages long and republicas wanted a vote on it in eighteen hours. That is so wrong.
None so far most are waiting until after the primary to endorse/
Healthcare Reform Oversight Committee, the Legislative Ethics Committee, .House Judiciary Committee and House Education Committee. There are others I would be glad to serve on any of them.
Total transparency always. Government accountability of course there should always be a clear path showing where funds originated,; where it went and how it was used.
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 28, 2024
Current members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Destin Hall
Majority Leader:Brenden Jones
Minority Leader:Robert Reives
Representatives
District 1
Ed Goodwin (R)
District 2
Ray Jeffers (D)
District 3
Steve Tyson (R)
District 4
James Dixon (R)
District 5
Bill Ward (R)
District 6
Joe Pike (R)
District 7
Matthew Winslow (R)
District 8
Gloristine Brown (D)
District 9
Timothy Reeder (R)
District 10
John Bell (R)
District 11
Allison Dahle (D)
District 12
Chris Humphrey (R)
District 13
Celeste Cairns (R)
District 14
Wyatt Gable (R)
District 15
Phillip Shepard (R)
District 16
Carson Smith (R)
District 17
Frank Iler (R)
District 18
Deb Butler (D)
District 19
Charles Miller (R)
District 20
Ted Davis (R)
District 21
Ya Liu (D)
District 22
William Brisson (R)
District 23
District 24
Dante Pittman (D)
District 25
Allen Chesser (R)
District 26
Donna White (R)
District 27
Rodney Pierce (D)
District 28
Larry Strickland (R)
District 29
Vernetta Alston (D)
District 30
Marcia Morey (D)
District 31
Zack Hawkins (D)
District 32
Bryan Cohn (D)
District 33
District 34
Tim Longest (D)
District 35
Mike Schietzelt (R)
District 36
Julie von Haefen (D)
District 37
Erin Paré (R)
District 38
Abraham Jones (D)
District 39
James Roberson (D)
District 40
Phil Rubin (D)
District 41
Maria Cervania (D)
District 42
Mike Colvin (D)
District 43
Diane Wheatley (R)
District 44
Charles Smith (D)
District 45
Frances Jackson (D)
District 46
Brenden Jones (R)
District 47
John Lowery (R)
District 48
Garland Pierce (D)
District 49
Cynthia Ball (D)
District 50
Renée Price (D)
District 51
John Sauls (R)
District 52
Ben Moss (R)
District 53
Howard Penny (R)
District 54
Robert Reives (D)
District 55
Mark Brody (R)
District 56
Allen Buansi (D)
District 57
Tracy Clark (D)
District 58
Amos Quick (D)
District 59
Alan Branson (R)
District 60
Cecil Brockman (D)
District 61
Mary Harrison (D)
District 62
John Blust (R)
District 63
Stephen Ross (R)
District 64
Dennis Riddell (R)
District 65
A. Reece Pyrtle (R)
District 66
Sarah Crawford (D)
District 67
Cody Huneycutt (R)
District 68
David Willis (R)
District 69
Dean Arp (R)
District 70
Brian Biggs (R)
District 71
Kanika Brown (D)
District 72
Amber Baker (D)
District 73
Jonathan Almond (R)
District 74
Jeff Zenger (R)
District 75
Donny Lambeth (R)
District 76
Harry Warren (R)
District 77
Julia Howard (R)
District 78
Neal Jackson (R)
District 79
Keith Kidwell (R)
District 80
Sam Watford (R)
District 81
Larry Potts (R)
District 82
Brian Echevarria (R)
District 83
Grant Campbell (R)
District 84
Jeffrey McNeely (R)
District 85
Dudley Greene (R)
District 86
Hugh Blackwell (R)
District 87
Destin Hall (R)
District 88
Mary Belk (D)
District 89
Mitchell Setzer (R)
District 90
Sarah Stevens (R)
District 91
Kyle Hall (R)
District 92
Terry Brown (D)
District 93
Ray Pickett (R)
District 94
Blair Eddins (R)
District 95
Todd Carver (R)
District 96
Jay Adams (R)
District 97
Heather Rhyne (R)
District 98
District 99
Nasif Majeed (D)
District 100
Julia Greenfield (D)
District 101
Carolyn Logan (D)
District 102
Becky Carney (D)
District 103
Laura Budd (D)
District 104
Brandon Lofton (D)
District 105
Tricia Cotham (R)
District 106
Carla Cunningham (D)
District 107
Aisha Dew (D)
District 108
John Torbett (R)
District 109
Donnie Loftis (R)
District 110
Kelly Hastings (R)
District 111
Paul Scott (R)
District 112
Jordan Lopez (D)
District 113
Jake Johnson (R)
District 114
Eric Ager (D)
District 115
Lindsey Prather (D)
District 116
Brian Turner (D)
District 117
Jennifer Balkcom (R)
District 118
Mark Pless (R)
District 119
Mike Clampitt (R)
District 120
Karl Gillespie (R)
Republican Party (71)
Democratic Party (49)
