Andy Bowline

Gerrymandering

Politicians should not pick their voters. Full stop. NC's General Assembly has rigged the maps to guarantee supermajorities, and that supermajority has been busy accumulating power instead of governing. They answer to map-makers, not voters.

When voters elected a Democratic governor by 15 points in 2024, the legislature responded by stripping his powers before he took office. They buried the changes in a hurricane relief bill and gave the public one hour to review 130 pages. That's not governing. That's a power grab.

Public Schools

Our schools are being starved. Teachers are leaving. Class sizes are growing. And public dollars are being funneled to private schools with zero accountability.

The Opportunity Scholarship voucher program will cost $6.5 billion over the next decade. 92% of that money is going to families whose kids were already in private school. The expansion passed without any increase in teacher pay. NC ranks dead last in per-pupil spending. 28 rural counties have zero or one private school to even use a voucher at.

This isn't "school choice." It's a wealth transfer.

Follow the Money

Corporate profits are up. Your bills are up. Your wages? Not so much. That's not an accident — it's a choice.

Duke Energy made $4.4 billion in profit last year — a 61% jump. Then the General Assembly passed a law shifting $24.8 million in energy costs off industrial users and onto residential customers. Your electric bill is subsidizing corporations.

Hospital systems across the region are posting record profits. Staff wages haven't kept up. Wait times haven't improved. Your bills haven't gone down. The money's going somewhere — just not to patients or the people who care for them.

Tax breaks and incentives go out the door, but nobody checks whether the jobs showed up, whether wages improved, whether the community saw any benefit at all. No clawbacks. No audits. No receipts.

Healthcare

Too many people in this district can't afford to get sick. Healthcare should be a right, not a reward for having the right job.

Medicaid providers are cutting services because the state won't fund them properly. Reimbursement rates were slashed because the legislature can't pass a budget. People are losing access to therapy, pharmacy benefits, and primary care. We need to expand Medicaid and stop pretending the current system is working.