Governor Stein
Because he grew up in Chapel Hill and went to Ivy League colleges, Josh Stein sometimes is portrayed as a departure from past Democratic governors in North Carolina.
He’s actually the latest in a political bloodline that goes back to Terry Sanford in 1960 and runs through Jim Hunt, Mike Easley and Roy Cooper: a strong progressive grounded in down-home values.
In a story headlined “What the only battleground Democrat to do better than Trump says his party needs to learn,” CNN asked Stein how he “got the biggest margin of any candidate in any battleground state,” running 171,000 votes ahead of Donald Trump.
Stein said, “I worked very hard. The team around me is extremely strong. We ran a savvy campaign. But I don’t think any of those things matter if voters don’t believe you are fighting for them.”
Like the Democratic governors before him, Stein fights for fairness, equal rights and economic opportunity.
Like them, too, he’s fighting criminals, drug dealers and rapists.
CNN said, “the main focus of the story Stein and his campaign told was grounded in his record clearing the state’s rape kit backlog and prosecuting fentanyl crimes.”
When Republicans tried to attack him on crime, Stein said, “I just don’t think it was believable because I had all these law enforcement validators who said, ‘I have been working with this guy for eight years and he is dogged in trying to combat the fentanyl crisis. He’s working his tail off to help victims of sexual assault.’”
Like his predecessors, Stein stands for what Bert Bennett, the political godfather to Sanford and Hunt, called “Democratic principles: human dignity, based on ethics and work and not color or background or money.”
Stein has put those principles to work throughout his career: public-interest-lawyer, U.S. Senate aide, top official in Attorney General Cooper’s Department of Justice, member of the state Senate and attorney general himself.
He proves that you can learn the right values whether you grow up in Chapel Hill or in Rock Ridge, where Governor Hunt and Lieutenant Governor-elect Rachel Hunt are from.
Values come first from good parents. Stein’s parents, Adam and Jane, had the courage to stand up for civil rights in the 1960s, when it wasn’t easy.
I’ve known Josh Stein for 28 years.
I know something about great governors; I worked for one for 16 years.
Governor Stein is made of the stuff of great governors.
Governor Stein
Because he grew up in Chapel Hill and went to Ivy League colleges, Josh Stein sometimes is portrayed as a departure from past Democratic governors in North Carolina.
He’s actually the latest in a political bloodline that goes back to Terry Sanford in 1960 and runs through Jim Hunt, Mike Easley and Roy Cooper: a strong progressive grounded in down-home values.
In a story headlined “What the only battleground Democrat to do better than Trump says his party needs to learn,” CNN asked Stein how he “got the biggest margin of any candidate in any battleground state,” running 171,000 votes ahead of Donald Trump.
Stein said, “I worked very hard. The team around me is extremely strong. We ran a savvy campaign. But I don’t think any of those things matter if voters don’t believe you are fighting for them.”
Like the Democratic governors before him, Stein fights for fairness, equal rights and economic opportunity.
Like them, too, he’s fighting criminals, drug dealers and rapists.
CNN said, “the main focus of the story Stein and his campaign told was grounded in his record clearing the state’s rape kit backlog and prosecuting fentanyl crimes.”
When Republicans tried to attack him on crime, Stein said, “I just don’t think it was believable because I had all these law enforcement validators who said, ‘I have been working with this guy for eight years and he is dogged in trying to combat the fentanyl crisis. He’s working his tail off to help victims of sexual assault.’”
Like his predecessors, Stein stands for what Bert Bennett, the political godfather to Sanford and Hunt, called “Democratic principles: human dignity, based on ethics and work and not color or background or money.”
Stein has put those principles to work throughout his career: public-interest-lawyer, U.S. Senate aide, top official in Attorney General Cooper’s Department of Justice, member of the state Senate and attorney general himself.
He proves that you can learn the right values whether you grow up in Chapel Hill or in Rock Ridge, where Governor Hunt and Lieutenant Governor-elect Rachel Hunt are from.
Values come first from good parents. Stein’s parents, Adam and Jane, had the courage to stand up for civil rights in the 1960s, when it wasn’t easy.
I’ve known Josh Stein for 28 years.
I know something about great governors; I worked for one for 16 years.
Governor Stein is made of the stuff of great governors.