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Eddins Another Battle Casualty
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Edited | Chronicler Aug 27, 2006 04:57pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, May 3, 2006 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Toby Coleman, Staff Writer
A Republican Party feud undid a Wake County lawmaker Tuesday as Rep. Rick Eddins lost his state House seat to his GOP challenger, Marilyn Avila.
With 29 of 30 precincts reporting, Avila, 57, of North Raleigh, won 66 percent of the vote in the House District 40 race. Eddins trailed with 34 percent, according to unofficial results.
During the primary contest, Avila hammered on Eddins, 52, of Raleigh, for cutting deals in the state House that helped embattled Speaker Jim Black.
"I think people were ready for change," said Avila, a former Wake County GOP chairwoman. Because no Democrat entered the race, Avila's primary victory assures her a seat in the legislature...
Eddins denounced a Republican committee that sent out fliers that questioned his conservative credentials.
"This is special-interest, corporate, tax-free money at its worst," he said.
The Republican Legislative Majority Committee got at least $100,000 from the family business of Art Pope, the Raleigh businessman and former legislator who also helped found the think tank where Avila works.
In its advertisements, the committee targeted Eddins and four other Republican lawmakers because they allied themselves with former House co-Speaker Richard Morgan. In 2003, Morgan and four other Republicans cut a power-sharing deal with Democrats that left most Republicans out of power.
Before his defeat, Eddins spent 12 years representing House District 40, which encompasses a large swath of northern Wake County, portions of North Raleigh, Rolesville and Wake Forest.
Some of his constituents said they voted against him because they think his alliance with Morgan and his work in the legislature left him linked to the political scandal surrounding Black, who is under investigation for possible campaign finance violations.
"The main reason I voted against Mr. Eddins is his association with the speaker," said Ralph Lang, 58, a Raleigh retiree.
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