By Keith T. Barber
Lumina News

Characterizing U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole as a career politician out of touch with the challenges facing ordinary North Carolinians, Jim Neal, a candidate for Dole’s Senate seat, spoke to a group of approximately 20 people at Leutze Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) last Thursday.

“She’s a career politician who’s spent her entire life under the bubble in Washington,” Neal, a Chapel Hill resident, said. “She has no sense what the people in North Carolina are experiencing on a day-to-day basis. She is doing a reprehensible job representing our state. She’s doing a reprehensible job representing our country.”

Neal, a former financial analyst and investment banker, said UNCW was one of more than 30colleges and universities he’s visited in recent weeks to make his case for the democratic nomination. Neal said his motivation in seeking the nomination was simple, yet powerful: “Providing a voice to the people of North Carolina who don’t give large sums of money to Sen. Dole, who aren’t part of a special interest group and for whom she works, but she has completely lost her allegiance,” Neal said.

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