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Folwell Seeks Second Term As NC Treasurer

Republican Dale Folwell, left (image from dalefolwell.com) and Democrat Ronnie Chatterji (image from ronniechatterji.com) are running for NC Treasurer. Folwell has held the seat for one term.

Dale Folwell, who began his political career in Forsyth County, is running again to keep his seat as North Carolina's treasurer, facing Democratic challenger, Ronnie Chatterji.  

Republican incumbent Folwell won the seat in 2016, becoming the first Republican North Carolina Treasurer since 1876. He previously represented Forsyth County's 74th House District in the legislature.

He's being challenged by Chatterji, a Duke business professor and former senior economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration.

Healthcare has emerged as a key topic in the race.

Folwell will continue to push for his Clear Pricing Project, which he says will boost transparency in the state health plan and save money. 

Critics of the plan say it will reduce revenues to health care providers, and some major hospital groups declined to sign on after Folwell introduced it two years ago.

Chatterji says he will advocate for expanding Medicaid across North Carolina.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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