Corporate financial adviser Jim Neal is in first run for office

by The Associated Press

Winston-Salem Journal

RALEIGH
Someone has finally gotten into the race to challenge U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole next year, as a Chapel Hill corporate financial adviser announced yesterday that he would run for the Democratic nomination.

The adviser, Jim Neal, a fundraiser for 2004 presidential candidates who has never run for public office, said he has formed an exploratory committee and has been out raising money. He filed his statement of candidacy with the U.S. Senate yesterday afternoon, a spokeswoman said.

“North Carolina deserves a hell of a lot better than a senator who serves nothing more than a rubber stamp for President Bush,” Neal said in an interview. “Like a lot of other people, I’m fed up with it.”

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