By Matt Shaw | Daily Times Staff Writer
The Wilson Times

Jim Neal passed through Wilson Wednesday on a route that, he hopes, will lead to the U.S. Senate.

Neal, a Democrat seeking U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s seat, attended a fund-raising event Wednesday night hosted by Allen Thomas Jr., Page and Eliot Smith, and Susan and Tom Hackney.

Before that, he stopped by the Daily Times’ offices.

Kay Hagan, a five-term state senator from Greensboro, has also declared her candidacy for Dole’s seat and looms as perhaps Neal’s biggest competition in the May 6 Democratic primary. Filing doesn’t begin until next month.

During his talk at the Daily Times, Neal called himself “a different type of animal” from Hagan.

“I am someone who is going to go to Washington and do what I’m going to say that I’ll do,” he said. “I am a candidate from the real world, not the political one.”

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