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NC-08: NY Times Profile of This Race
Submitted by NCProsecutor on Thu, 10/26/2006 - 11:19am.Cross-posted from NC House Races
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This article in today's New York Times represents an interesting attempt at balance. The first part of the article highlights the Kissell campaign's focus on Hayes' about-face on CAFTA:
As if by chance, though probably not, both candidates are linked to the old mill. Charles Cannon, legendary founder of the Cannon textile empire and grandfather of Representative Robin Hayes, the Republican incumbent, built it in the 1920’s, and Mr. Hayes worked summers there as a youth.
Larry Kissell, his Democratic opponent, worked there for 27 years before becoming a high school teacher in 2001, when, he says, he saw “the handwriting on the wall” about its future. Now his campaign is organized around the threat of foreign competition and Mr. Hayes’s tiebreaking vote last year for a trade accord with Central America.
