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Manning Announces Candidacy For 6th District

Kathy Manning. Photo credit: Kathy Manning campaign.

Democrat Kathy Manning has launched her campaign for the redrawn 6th District of North Carolina. 

Manning previously lost her bid represent the 13th Congressional District in 2018. She announced on Monday she'll run in a district that now includes all of Guilford County, Winston-Salem, and parts of Kernersville. The North Carolina General Assembly approved the newly formed district in November.

In announcing her candidacy, Manning released a statement saying, “The Triad area has been underrepresented in Congress due to unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps drawn by Republican insiders.”

The News and Observer reports congressional campaign filing began Monday, after a three-judge panel approved the new house district map. The judges had suspended filing for the 13 seats while the case was under review.  

The filing period is set to end on December 20th, with the primary scheduled for March 3rd. 

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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