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BUNCOMBE REGION PageB2 ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES Sunday, May 3, 1998 Lesser-known Democrats fight for chance to unseat Faircloth held office is Ella Scarborough, a former Charlotte City Council member who says she is trusting God to deliver her the primary victory. Edwards, whose million-dollar television campaign portrays him as a smalltown guy fighting for schools and against big-spending lobbyists, said he did not consider it unusual to seek a U.S. Senate seat as his first elected office. "I have this notion, romantic I know, about what a senator is," said Edwards. "When I think about what a U.S.

senator ought to be, I think about a fiery advocate, someone who works passionately for his constituents. "That's what I've done for my life's work, so it seems only natural to me to try for the Senate," he said. Edwards said he is not worried about the conventional wisdom that lawyers are easy to attack in campaigns because of their occupation. By (tennis Patterson ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER RALEIGH One thing is certain about the Democratic U.S. Senate primary the winner will be a sharp contrast to incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth, a rough-hewn good ol' boy with decades of political experience.

The two Democrats who have dominated the campaign so far Raleigh attorney John Edwards and former University of North Carolina lobbyist D.G. Martin of Chapel Hill couldn't be more different from Faircloth, a conservative Democrat-turned-Republican who built his family farm into an agribusiness conglomerate. Edwards, 44, is a personal injury lawyer making his first bid for public office, while Martin, 57, is a soft-spoken academic, the son of a Davidson College president who ran twice for Congress in the 1980s. The only one of the seven Democrats in the May 5 primary who has previously "I think it is difficult to run statewide as a criminal defense lawyer," he said. "I'm not too worried about it because I represent mostly kids and families; I represent real people.

"All my cases, essentially, are against insurance companies," he said. A year ago, Edwards won $30 million for a Cary girl whose intestines were sucked out when she sat on an uncovered drain at a swimming pool. Martin, who has focused on his integrity and a return to more civil politics, ran twice for Charlotte's 9th District congressional seat, which had been held for more than 30 years by Republicans. In 1984, he came within about 300 votes of winning. "I knew that I enjoyed the campaign process, believed I was good at it, and got a lot of satisfaction out of the privilege to participate in the process," said Martin, a Yale-educated lawyer and former Green Beret "Most people with whom I agree ton Mayor Marion Barry a foil of bis campaign.

Faircloth is chairman of the budget subcommittee that oversees District of Columbia finances. Under his leadership, Congress has stripped much of the power from the elected City Council and Barry. On the speaking circuit, Faircloth frequently draws laughs when he talks about, Barry's entourage, his security force and money wasted on cronies. "They had 68 people on the payroll that had been dead for more than three years," Faircloth said. "It was just incredible, but we're making headway.

We're starting to get things turned around." Nationally, Democrats have rated Fair-cloth's seat as vulnerable, but Faircloth doesn't see it that way. "I think we're doing pretty well," he said. "We've got one opponent (Edwards) with a lot of money and he's willing to spend it, but I think were doing OK" don't feel that way about it "I knew that if I woke up on the day after the election and hadn't been a candidate, or the result was not good, I wouldn't be able to explain that to my children or myself why I hadn't done what I knew to do." The other Democratic candidates include a small-town business consultant, a newspaper carrier, a Charlotte accountant and a coastal environmentalist. Faircloth has two Republican challengers in his bid for a second term a retired farmer from Statesville and a former District Court judge from Flat Rock, both political unknowns. His campaign has centered on reforming the Internal Revenue Service and national efforts to shift from welfare to work-fare, the main theme of his 1992 campaign.

Faircloth, who strongly criticized the Clintons as a member of the Senate Whitewater Committee, also has made Washing Republican challengers to Faircloth face long odds Precinct polling places Voters should note several recent changes in voting places following the creation of new precincts. If you're not sure where to vote, call the Board of Elections at 255-51 23. Address Location Precinct Pct. Franks, a 67-year-old former District Court Judge, said he is not counting on "status quo Republicans" who Bee no need to change. "I fully expect a lot of those people to sit home during the primary because they don't see a lot of issues in the primary," Franks said.

"I'm making my approach to rank-and-file Republicans, many of whom never go to a Lincoln Day dinner or a Republican men's club meeting or women's club meeting, but they are voters." Both candidates say they support campaign finance reform to get special-interest money out of politics. "I feel like that's a must until we get the very best government we can and get the common, average person in it," said Plyler. "When I say campaign reform, I mean somebody who can get in there without being bought by the special i interest groups." Efforts to reform the financing system are at the mercy of people elected under that system, Franks said, "which is probably one reason that campaign finance reform proposals aren't going anywhere." Franks also disagrees with Faircloth on a number of national and international issues. "I see a major problem in the failure of Congress to deal with the national debt," Franks said. "I think there are two reasons for this one is that no one knows what to By Dennis Patterson ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER RALEIGH Leonard Plyler of Statesville and Steve Franks of Flat Rock know they face long odds as they attempt to upset incumbent U.S.

Sen. Lauch Faircloth in the Republican primary. Yet they are hoping concerns about campaign reform and politics as usual will drive voters into their camps. "I know it's a shot in the dark, but I feel like somebody had to take the shot," said Plyler, a 66-year-old fanner. "But I don't know of anybody else running who is going to present my views, so it is left up to me to do the best I can with it" do about it, and the other is that I feel our financial institutions, which includes international banking and bonding firms, are happy with the extent of our national debt because they are involved in marketing the securities that finance our debts." Franks supports ending subsidies for road-building by loggers in national feeling about conservatism is that conservatives should be interested in conserving our natural resources," he said.

Faircloth changed his vote, helping kill a bill that eliminated that subsidy, Franks said. He also said that the United Nations has made improvements sought by the United States, so it is time for the United States to become current on its contributions. 1 William Wolcott building 2 Randolph Elementary School 3 Claxton Elementary School 4 North Asheville Community Center 5 Jones Elementary School 6 East Asheville Community Center 7 Xenilworth Presbyterian Church 8 Shiloh Community Center 9 Murphy Community Center 1 0 Livingston Community Center 11 Asheville Middle School 12 Fletcher Elementary School 13 West Asheville Presbyterian Church 1 4 Accelerated Learning Center 15 Vance Elementary School 1 6 West Asheville Community Center 17 Unitarian Universalis! Church 18 Roberson High School 19 Skyland United Methodist Church 20 St. Luke's Episcopal Church 21 Haw Creek Elementary School 22 Beaverdam Community Center 23 Haw Creek Fire Department 24 Sand Hill Venable School 25 Bell Elementary School 26 Avery's Creek Elementary School 27 Biltmore Forest Town Hall 28 Owen Middle School 29 Public Works building 30 Lake Tomahawk Clubhouse 31 Christmount Assembly 32 Broad River Community Center 33 Fairview Elementary School 34 Fairview Fire Department 35 North Buncombe "Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville "Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville Asheville "Asheville Avery's Creek Biltmore Forest Black Mountain 1 "Black Mountain 2 Black Mountain 3 "Block Mountain 4 Broad River Fairview I SSFairview 2 Flat Creek 161 South Charlotte St. 90 Montford Ave.

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