#ncpol: ONE MORE GOPer looking at LtGov?
We’ve got four potentials out there on the GOP side, and it appears that a New Bern restauranteur and minor-league baseball team owner may make it a quintet. Buddy Bengel, owner of Bengel Hospitality and The Morehead City Marlins, is reported to be feeling out various key political players in his neck of the woods about a 2020 run for lieutenant governor.
Bengel was quite active in post-hurricane relief efforts in his home region. He also appears to be a must-see person for GOP politicians — like Dan Forest, Richard Burr, and Thom Tillis — campaigning in his neck of the woods.
Bengel also serves as a member of the NC Education Lottery Commission.
The other folks being mentioned as potential candidates are: former congresswoman Renee Ellmers, former Mecklenburg County commissioner Jim Puckett, attorney and newspaper publisher Neal Robbins, and state Rep. Mark Brody.
Nothing says conservative like serving on the lotto board. The GOP has been in charge since 2010 so why do we still have a state lottery again?
Exactly you are my kind of conservative with that statement #EndTheLotto
This is the same individual who caused the Morehead City Council politicians to force a baseball field down the taxpayers throats without us having right to argue against this…it’s called “DOING BUSINESS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS”…..