Veronica Carter
Veronica Carter ran for election to the Leland Town Council in North Carolina. Carter won in the general election on November 5, 2019.
Carter completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Veronica Carter served in the United States Army from 1981 to 2001.[1][2] She attended Fordham University for undergraduate study and graduated in 1981, and attended Troy State University for graduate study and graduated in 1989.[2]
Carter's career experience includes working as a logistics officer with the United Nations and as the director of administration and logistics with the Military Terminal Sunny Point. She has served as the president of Cape Fear Citizens for a Safe Environment, as the director of North Carolina Coastal Federation, and as the founder of Southeastern North Carolina Environmental Justice Coalition.[1]
Elections
2019
See also: City elections in Leland, North Carolina (2019)
General election
General election for Leland Town Council (2 seats)
Veronica Carter and incumbent Bob Campbell defeated Rick Paxton and Louis Harmati in the general election for Leland Town Council on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Veronica Carter (Nonpartisan)  | 36.1 | 2,521 |
| ✔ | Bob Campbell (Nonpartisan) | 33.7 | 2,350 | |
 | Rick Paxton (Nonpartisan) | 17.6 | 1,224 | |
 | Louis Harmati (Nonpartisan) | 12.0 | 835 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 44 | ||
| Total votes: 6,974 | |||
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Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
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As a US Federal employee, she served as the Director of Administration and Logistics for Military Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point. As an International Civil Servant at United Nations Headquarters, Ms. Carter worked in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, as a Logistics Officer supporting existing or new peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone, Burundi, Liberia, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) and Congo (Zaire).
The Governor of North Carolina appointed Veronica to the Coastal Resources Commission, from 2008 through 2012.
She has served on the Board of Directors for Cape Fear and Brunswick County's Habitat for Humanity affiliates. She currently serves on the Town of Leland's Parks and Recreation Board.
Veronica has devoted much of her time to ensuring Environmental Justice (EJ) by empowering, advocating and educating EJ communities in southeastern NC. She currently serves on the North Carolina Coastal Federation Board of Directors, the Duke Superfund Advisory Board and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Secretary's Environmental Justice and Equity Board.
Veronica was instrumental in starting the Brunswick County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), the County's Long-Term Recovery Group. Non-profits and faith-based organizations now work with the County and municipalities to help Brunswick County residents trying to recover from storms.
A native of Brooklyn New York and a product of New York City Public Schools, she now calls Leland, North Carolina home. Veronica received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Fordham University and her Master of Public Administration from Troy University. She is a graduate of the United States Army's Command and General Staff College.
- I believe we can protect our communities, grow our economy and ensure a healthy and safe environment all at the same time.
- I want to serve on the Leland Town Council so that I can continue to make a positive difference in our community, making it better than I found it.
- Governments exist to protect their citizens. One of the most important roles of government is to ensure the safety and protection of its citizens.
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Campaign website
Carter's campaign website stated the following:
| “ | I believe we can protect our communities, grow our economy and ensure a healthy and safe environment all at the same time. I want to serve on the Leland Town Council so that I can continue to make a positive difference in our community, making it better than I found it.
Governments exist to protect their citizens One of the most important roles of government is to ensure the safety and protection of its citizens. Ensuring access to safe water and air is an essential legal, ethical, and spiritual mandate in safeguarding and protecting both human beings and the natural world in which we live. Leland is a leader in the region, and its citizens deserve equal protection, nothing less.
I applaud the North Carolina Department of Transportation's decision to halt the planning and design work of the Cape Fear Crossing at this time. However, we need to find the "right" solutions that actually meet our area's transportation needs. Our goals and objectives should promote healthy and safe neighborhoods. "Right" solutions offer walkable, bikeable, or public transit-oriented systems that are safe, provide appropriate travel options, are easily accessed and feasible for all of our Leland residents. Homeowners deserve a voice and a choice when it comes to our local transportation efforts. Positive, constructive, collaboration between municipalities, state and federal agencies is imperative to ensure that our community is not adversely impacted by ill conceived projects.
The Stakes are High We must rebuild and change our ways of building to be more resilient. We must ensure that all have access to information and funding to rebuild to a stronger standard, including renters. We need to work on model stormwater programs that include retrofits for existing developments. Low-impact development should be the model, not the exception. We must educate consumers, train contractors and create incentives for implementation. We must add a “resilience lens” to the permitting process, identifying our vulnerabilities and adapting mitigation strategies before the next storm.
For a Better Future Hurricane Florence took a problem and made it a crisis. Many of our residents don’t have an affordable, safe, comfortable place to live. Housing is considered “affordable” if a family spends no more than 30% of their income to live there. A person making $20 an hour ($41.6k) cannot “afford” an apartment that rents at $1k. Our teachers, first responders, health care professionals and seniors need safe, dependable, convenient, affordable rental units to replace the homes they lost during the storm.[3] |
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| —Veronica Carter’s campaign website (2019)[4] | ||
See also
2019 Elections
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Town of Leland website
- Town of Leland Board of Commissioners webpage
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook page
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 VA Carter, "Home," accessed October 7, 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on October 22, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Veronica Carter's campaign website, “Home,” accessed October 7, 2019
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