Jim Long

Wayne Goodwin's campaign for Insurance Commissioner received yet another significant endorsement recently.

The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) awarded him with a very strong endorsement in the 2008 campaign for Insurance Commissioner. You may learn more about the NCAE at www.ncae.org.

Goodwin's outstanding legislative record on behalf of public education and his pledge to continue the watchdog role that Jim Long has had were especially persuasive.

To learn more about Wayne's campaign and to see the deep, diverse and broad array of support for his Insurance Commissioner campaign, then go to www.waynegoodwin.org and click on the tab entitled "Endorsements."

Please spread the word to friends, family and fellow voters in your community.

Read the editorial of the first newspaper in the 2008 campaign season to endorse Wayne Goodwin for NC Insurance Commissioner.

Just when you thought there weren't enough battles for us to fight, the wildfire of insurance company greed is spreading again in North Carolina. With the flames being fanned by NC Senator Tony Rand, North Carolina's automobile insurers are eager to let the market do its magic. This is going to be a long, hard fight, and before it goes nuclear, make sure you know who's on which side. It's actually pretty simple. The leadership in the North Carolina Senate is generally on the side of insurance companies making more profits, and Insurance Commissioner Jim Long is generally on the side of we the people.

To my surprise on Saturday morning, I happened upon a website with the address www.jimlongforpresident.com … Is this for real? Yes, there it is with the presidential seal, video clips and the like: Jim Long is, indeed, running for President!

See who is sponsoring the Democratic Victory Luncheon on January 26, 2008 in Hamlet, site of the N.C. Democratic Party's State Executive Committee meeting.

State Representative Melanie Wade Goodwin (D-Richmond) announced on November 8th her plans to seek re-election next year to the North Carolina General Assembly.

Goodwin’s district includes most of Montgomery County and all of Richmond County.

As she seeks a third term, the lawmaker said, “I have worked to improve education, enhance job growth, and promote families while in office. During the last three and a half years we have had many successes for District 66. One of them is removing Medicaid from our county budgets, thus saving millions of dollars a year for local property owners.”

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What's going on here?

Insurance Commissioner Jim Long kicked off his 2008 re-election campaign last night at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham. ... It has become tradition for Long to jumpstart his re-election at the ANNUAL SALUTE TO JIM LONG.

You may recall a discussion on this topic and Sen. Rand several weeks ago. Now there is a House companion bill to SB 901.

It is urgent that you act now.

I issue a challenge to all BlueNC readers to support the resolution below ... and share it with everyone they know ... and email their State legislators their opposition to the legislation.

Please also keep me and Commissioner Jim Long updated on the responses you receive. His email address is jlong@ncdoi.net and my work email is wgoodwin@ncdoi.net.

Thank you!

Wayne Goodwin
Assistant Commissioner of Insurance
and 2004 Democratic nominee for Commissioner of Labor

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A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF INSURANCE COMMISSIONER JIM LONG
AND IN OPPOSITION TO SENATE BILL 901 AND HOUSE BILL 1430

Dcobranchi asked the right questions earlier this week in response to Tony Rand's puzzling proposals to gut consumer protections against the insurance industry. Wayne Goodwin, Assistant Commissioner of Insurance, weighed in on the issue this morning here at BlueNC.

Now the News and Observer has jumped in with both feet, with a great editorial.

Perhaps Jim Long, North Carolina's insurance commissioner, kicked state Sen. Tony Rand's dog, or scratched the majority leader's shiny new car. Why else would Rand introduce legislation to strip Long of his power to rule on auto, home and workers' comp insurance rates? Or could it be that the insurance industry sought out Rand to scuttle a system that works fine for North Carolina customers -- and, by the way, for the bottom lines of insurance companies operating in the state. The bill is clearly a case of fixing what isn't broke. It should die quietly.