Tom Glendinning
Tom Glendinning (Republican Party) ran for election to the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 23. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Glendinning completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Tom Glendinning was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1963 to 1966. Glendinning earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1973 and a master's degree from the University of North Carolina. Glendinning's career experience includes working as a contractor, developer, and commercial property owner.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for North Carolina State Senate District 23
Incumbent Valerie Foushee defeated Tom Glendinning in the general election for North Carolina State Senate District 23 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Valerie Foushee (D) | 68.3 | 88,429 |
 | Tom Glendinning (R)  | 31.7 | 41,016 | |
| Total votes: 129,445 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Valerie Foushee advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 23.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Tom Glendinning advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 23.
Campaign finance
2018
General election
General election for North Carolina State Senate District 23
Incumbent Valerie Foushee defeated Tom Glendinning in the general election for North Carolina State Senate District 23 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Valerie Foushee (D) | 71.3 | 73,332 |
| Tom Glendinning (R) | 28.7 | 29,530 | |
| Total votes: 102,862 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 23
Incumbent Valerie Foushee advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 23 on May 8, 2018.
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 23
Tom Glendinning advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 23 on May 8, 2018.
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tom Glendinning completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Glendinning's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Glendinning has owned and operated three corporations in his career: one contracting, one consulting, and one psychiatric hospital. His lifetime of business and public service speaks to the commitment he has made to improve lives around him. In non-profit, committee, and church groups, he has developed community groups to answer local needs, develop environmental groups and programs, served on tax, planning, and public service boards, and on church vestry and committees. Needs and desire to answer them invokes his strong sense of duty. He answered the call to serve his country in the United States Marine Corps.
After successful and innovative careers, he plans to devote himself to serving North Carolina, in gratitude to all it and his Lord have given him.- I pledge to deliver excellence with all the resouces at my disposal in office.
- A life so blessed as ours in this country demands that I answer the call to service once again.
- The country is in transition. It needs good, experienced leadership to navigate economic and policy challenges.
Justice for all needs to become a reality again.
Property rights need protection from over-regulation and over-taxation.
After that, Senator and astronaut John Glenn.
"The Social Contract," Rousseau
I founded and operated my businesses for forty years;
I served my community and its non-profits for forty years;
I have met and discussed issues with legislators for over forty years;
my business has taken me to cities and counties in the state to meet with government officials;
the issues of the state and local govts are familiar;
I continue to learn about govt through courses, forums, and reading;
North Carolina geography is a personal study,
of the belief that anyone can make a difference,
of desire to change bad situations,
"The Bible," eternal wisdom
To educate the American public in government, federal and state, in short civics,
To return to a ground with common values,
To restore respect for the process of governance,
1. Its members are elected every six years, the longest serving elected office in government, outside the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.
2. The Senate is considered the senior legislative body in congress.
Deep and patriotic experience of the candidate.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ ’’Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 18, 2020’’
