Carter Turner for Delegate
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About Carter Turner:Carter Turner was born in Culpeper, Virginia. He moved to Salem with his family at age 7. A 1987 Graduate of Salem High School, he was a member of the 1986 Regional Championship football team and co-captain of the tennis team.After graduating from Virginia Tech with a B.A. in History where he served as an executive officer in the German Club, Carter earned an M.A. from the Iliff School of Theology, and a Ph.D. in Religious and Theological Studies from the University of Denver. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Radford University. An avid sports photographer, Carter is a regular contributor to the Salem Times Register.Non-Partisan approaches to problem-solvingCarter believes that the best solutions to problems are achieved when people on opposing sides of issues are willing to work together for the common good. When leaders take positions based upon partisanship rather than principles, they leave their constituents behind.Recently our district's current Delegate led the effort to reject $125 million in unemployment stimulus money. Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of Virginians are unemployed, that the stimulus package included money from hard working Virginians, and that many Virginia business owners supported accepting the package, our current Delegate voted against it. We must not elect politicians who neglect our state's most needy. Injecting millions of dollars into the state's economy would stimulate sales and create jobs.If elected, Carter will support a second effort to release the stimulus money, putting common sense leadership above petty politics.
