North Carolina House of Representatives District 36 candidate surveys, 2022

Elections in North Carolina, 2022

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This article shows responses from candidates in the 2022 election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 36 who completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

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Candidates and election results

General election

General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 36

Incumbent Julie von Haefen defeated John Harris and Kyle Ward in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 36 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Julie von Haefen (D)	56.1	21,966
		John Harris (R)	41.4	16,220
		Kyle Ward (L)	2.5	968

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 39,154
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Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

John Harris (R)

Securing our economic future is my top priority. We need to keep taxes low and invest in infrastructure to continue to attract high-paying jobs and support southern Wake County's tremendous growth. Good jobs are the best way to battle back against historically high inflation and energy prices and weather the coming economic slowdown.

I support an innovate-and-invest education agenda. We need to increase pay for our teachers with a focus on recruiting and retaining the best classroom educators. I also support empowering parents through greater curricular transparency and school choice. Innovation in higher education is especially critical, so that we can deliver multiple options for students to get the job training they need without having to take on loads of debt.

Our area has had huge population growth, and crime is on the rise as a result. We need to stand with law enforcement and ensure they have the resources they need to keep our neighborhoods safe.

Kyle Ward (L)

All parents, not just wealthy ones, should be able to choose where their children attend school.

We need to end the War on Drugs and drastically change how we police our communities. Victimless crimes aren't crimes.

The state's heavy interference is why our healthcare system is broken. End Certificates of Need and countless other regulations that hamstring doctors and nurses.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

John Harris (R)

I have a wide array of interests, and one of the things I enjoy about being a lawyer is that I am always learning something new. I expect that to remain the case if elected to serve in the NC House. That said, economic development and higher education reform are two areas where I am most passionate as I think about our state's future. They are also highly interrelated. Good jobs provide stability and purpose, but we won't have good jobs if we don't have an educated workforce ready to perform those jobs, if we don't maintain a low-tax and competitive economic environment, and if we don't make prudent investments in infrastructure to support our growth. The last two decades of the digital revolution have brought major disruption to the way we work, and we will need to continue to rethink how we're educating our students to ensure they are prepared to compete in the 21st century economy. States that get these things right will become the great places to work, live, and raise a family for the next several decades. That's what North Carolina can and should be.

Kyle Ward (L)

I'm passionate about many areas of public policy, but school choice is one of my focal points. I have a 7- and 4-year-old. We pulled our 7-year-old out of public school due to lockdown policies which would have severely delayed his education. This required numerous sacrifices from the family budget, but many more families couldn't afford this choice at all. Many politicians send their children to private school while trapping yours in failing public schools. I'm passionate about attaching education dollars to children so that all families can have the same options my family did.

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