Quanta Edwards
Quanta Edwards (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 38. She lost in the Democratic primary on March 3, 2020.
Edwards completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Quanta Edwards was born in Lumberton and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for graduate study. Edwards' career experience includes working as a licensed real estate broker.
She has been affiliated with the Democratic Women of Wake County, non-profit organization Families Together, non-profit organization Nurse-Family Partnership, and the North Carolina Association of Realtors.[1][2]
Elections
2020
See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 38
Abraham P. Jones defeated Kenneth Bagnal and Richard Haygood in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 38 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Abraham P. Jones (D) | 77.7 | 33,058 |
| Kenneth Bagnal (R) | 17.7 | 7,535 | ||
 | Richard Haygood (L) | 4.6 | 1,949 | |
| Total votes: 42,542 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 38
Abraham P. Jones defeated Quanta Edwards in the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 38 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Abraham P. Jones | 57.2 | 8,718 |
 | Quanta Edwards | 42.8 | 6,512 | |
| Total votes: 15,230 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Kenneth Bagnal advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 38.
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Richard Haygood advanced from the Libertarian primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 38.
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Quanta Edwards completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Edwards' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Affordable Housing - Under our present shortage of affordable housing, we have people earning a descent income, but still can't afford a descent home of their own, but they are paying extremely high rent. Therefore, I would favor legislation that would offer state subsidized incentives to businesses, agencies and non profit entities to engage in the business of providing housing that working people can afford.
- Medicaid and Health Care Expansion - It is well known that our present health care system denies many residents of the health care coverage they need. As a result of that, we have people who can not afford their prescriptions, do not have access to a needed specialist, and are disqualified on the basis of income to obtain coverage. As your elected official, I would sponsor, co-sponsor or favor legislation that would adjust the qualifying income limits, expand prescription drug coverage and push for expanded coverage of specialty care.
- Education-Presently, NC ranks 48th in the nation in student spending & 36th in the nation for quality of education for K-12th grade. Additionally, NC teacher salary ranks 35th nationwide. Collectively these stats suggest that public schools will routinely turn out students who will not be prepared for our local employee market. NC routinely recruits new companies with incentives and those companies bring out of state employees and rarely higher locally. My goal is to improve our schools by making sure that they fully funded.
As for housing, I would seek to minimize barriers to homeownership and housing affordability.
My example to follow is my Aunt Ronnie. She runs a successful transportation company in her County, and she genuinely makes an effort to employ local people and family. In addition, Aunt Ronnie is a staunch community activist who often gives of her free time to help people in her community.
2. My ability to analyze difficult circumstances and identify potential solutions.
3. A humble perspective of the human condition.
2. Identifying the most critical concerns of the people, and devising a plan to address those needs.
3. Developing relationships with other legislators who may be empathetic to those expressed needs. AND
By having legislators who are serial politicians drafting our laws, we often wind up with legislation, worded in a manner, that reflect ONLY their collective views and not the views of our diverse citizens.
I firmly believe that the individual legislator must come to a point where they set aside their personal views for the good of the people they serve. To that end, should it become necessary to compromise on a particular bill, so that more homeless children will become housed, then I'm inclined to compromise with other legislators, in order to help the people who are most affected.
After further inquiry, I learned from the hotel front desk, that the weekly rate was $314.00 per week, and that this particular hotel was HOME for several families, living under similar circumstances.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
