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Democratic
candidates for Congress in North Carolina’s 5th district will
participate in a Watauga County, Congressional Candidates Forum
on Thursday, April 6, 2006. The forum will be held at the Watauga
County Administration Building, located at the corner of Water and
King Street in downtown Boone, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Voters
in Watauga and surrounding counties are invited to attend the forum
and learn more about each candidate’s stand on the issues.
In
addition to prepared questions from the moderator, audience members
will be encouraged to submit written questions, which will be drawn
at random during the second portion of the program. Each candidate
will have the opportunity to answer audience questions.
The
Democratic Party congressional Primary in the 5th district
includes four candidates:
Mark
Glen, 49, is a native of Long Island, N.Y. He attended and graduated
from Duke University in 1980 with a degree in history. Glen completed
his training as an architect at Princeton University. He and his
family moved to Winston-Salem in 1995, where he founded Glen &
Koester Residential Design (which later became Acanthus Architecture,
PA). Mark Glen is active on committees of the Episcopal Church,
and he and his wife Ann have one daughter, 5-year-old Emma Louise.
Syndi Holmes, 52, is a mother of four sons and the grandmother of two grandsons. Holmes relocated to Davie County from Maine in 2001 and resides in Mocksville with her youngest son who is a freshman in the University of North Carolina system. A graduate of Saint Mary’s in Minneapolis, Holmes has been a registered nurse for 22 years. Holmes has experience in home health case management and currently serves as a full time hospital staff nurse at a local medical center.
Roger Kirkman, 56, is a native of Winston-Salem, NC. Kirkman is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, where he later pursued graduate studies in Cartography and Population Geography. Kirkman was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at London Business School, an accelerated MBA program, during which he took honors in Marketing and Finance. At present, Roger Kirkman serves as a public information officer in the Division of University Advancement at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU). An avid reader and traveler, Kirkman resides in Winston-Salem with his wife Connie.
Roger
Sharpe is a former member of the N.C. Senate where he represented
Watauga and five other counties. A native of Iredell County, he
resides in Harmony. Sharpe is a graduate of East Carolina University
and also attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
During the Carter administration, he worked as a special assistant
to the director of the Office of Civil Rights. More recently he
was White House liaison for the National School Boards Association.
His memoir of growing up in Iredell County, "Ceremony of Innocence,"
was recently published by Mercer University Press.
The
5th district congressional candidates forum in Watauga County will
provide an opportunity for voters to get to know more about the
candidates before making their choice in the May 2, 2006 Primary.
Early voting for this year’s Primary election will begin on
April 13, 2006.
The
5th congressional district includes Alexander, Alleghany, Davie,
Surry, Stokes, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yadkin counties as well as portions
of Forsyth and Iredell counties. For more information about the 5th Congressional
District Democratic Party, visit http://www.ncfifthdistrict.net
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