• Rep. Larry Kissell, D-8th, headlines a Washington Post feature story on the “dying breed” of white Southern Democrats in Congress.
• Richard Hudson, Kissell’s Republican opponent, wins the Guardian Award from 60 Plus, an organization that promotes conservative policy issues for senior citizens.
• The State Employees Association of North Carolina invited Democratic gubernatorial nominee Walter Dalton to speak to its annual convention in Greensboro, but the lieutenant governor said no. SEANC has announced it will not endorse in the governor’s race.
• Meantime, N.C. Citizens for Progress, a political arm of the Democratic Governors Association, is upping its financial support for Dalton with a $900,000 ad buy. The DGA considers the North Carolina governor’s race one of the top five in the nation and may spend as much as $5 million on Dalton’s behalf.
• Brad Woodhouse, the communications director of the Democratic National Committee (and brother of Dallas Woodhouse, head of North Carolina’s chapter of the conservative grass-roots group Americans for Prosperity), said state Democrats should have ousted embattled party chairman David Parker and that the Obama campaign doesn’t need Parker’s help to win North Carolina.
