2011 Team and Supporters

2011 Our Team

Co-Campaign Manager
Joel Ford

Special Campaign Advisors
Donald Robinson
Noell Tin

Field Outreach Director
Jerome Miller

Fundraising Director
Bobby Drakeford

Fundraising Team
Betty Chafin-Rash
Jill Santuccio, APR
Lisa G. Crawford
Monica Wissbaum

Treasurer/Finance Team
Virginia Little
Doug Evans

Scheduler
Regina Walker

Campaign Administrator
Stefanie Austin

Internet Strategist
Michael Dickerman

Marketing & Communications Team
Sabrina Jackson

Field Outreach Team
Reggie Johnson
Lynnette Carr
Sophia Pratt
Juan De Cruz

Young Professionals Outreach Team
Davida Jackson
Carrie Cook
Rod Garvin
Amy Chiou
Toria Boldware
Nepherterra Estrada
Felisha Fletcher

Volunteer Director
Michelle Allen

Numbers & Stats Team
Eric Davis
Cynthia Wallace

Team Members
Mary Walker-Howard
Alfred Alexander
Helen Alexander

2011 General Election Endorsements

• The Charlotte Observer
• The Charlotte Post
• Black Political Caucus – Mecklenburg County
• Charlotte Fraternal Order of Police #9
• MeckPAC
• qnotes.com
• The Sierra Club – Central Piedmont Group
• SPPACE

2011 Primary Election Endorsements

• The Charlotte Post
• The Charlotte Observer
• MeckPAC

Elected Officials

Congressman Melvin Watt (NC12)
NC Senator Dan Clodfelter
NC Senator Charlie Dannelly
NC Senator Malcolm Graham
NC Rep. Kelly Alexander
NC Rep. Becky Carney
NC Rep. Beverly Earle
NC Rep. Rodney Moore
Council Member James Mitchell
Council Member Nancy Carter
Council Member Jason Burgess
Commissioner Jennifer Roberts
Commissioner Harold Cogdell
Commissioner George Dunlap Jr.
Commissioner Velma Leake
Joe White, Jr., Board of Education

Former Elected Officials

The Honorable Bishop George Battle, Jr.
The Honorable Edna Chirico
The Honorable Malachi Greene
The Honorable H. Parks Helms
The Honorable Ron Leeper
The Honorable Norman Mitchell
The Honorable Cyndee Patterson
The Honorable Gregg Phipps
The Honorable Betty Chafin Rash
The Honorable Wilhelmina Rembert
The Honorable James Ross
The Honorable Sarah Stevenson
The Honorable Sara Spencer
The Honorable Kim Mitchell-Walker
The Honorable Lynn Wheeler
The Honorable Darrel Williams
The Honorable Velva Woollen

Our Supporters

Alfred Alexander
Jen Algire
David Allen
Emma Allen
Michelle Allen
Collette Alston
Latrisha Anderson
John Arrowood
Doris Asbury
Linda Ashendorf
Alvin Austin
James Babb
Mary Lou Babb
Kevin Bardge
Mildred Beal
Joan Belk
Thomas Belk, Jr.
Deborah Bell
PJ Benton
Howard Bissell
Howard C. Bissell
James Bissell
L Doug Black
Fred Bolt
Al Bond
J. Michael Booe
Crandall Bowles
Christina Bowser
Thomas Brasse
Joyce Brayboy
Timothy Brennan
Lloyd Bridges
Collin Brown
Jefferson Brown
James Burbank
Elizabeth Burgess
Sandra Burris
Tiffany Capers
John Carmichael
Diane Carter
William Chandler
Emmanuel Choice
Derick Close
Sarah Coleman
John Collett
Johnnie Collins
Tamela Colson
Peter Conway
Julius Cousar
Patricia Cotham
Kevin Cox
Joyce Crawford
John Crosland
John Crosland Jr
Jesse Cureton
Geoffery Curme
Edward Curran
Jenifer Daniels
Larry Dagenhart
Michel Daisley
Janine Davis
Joni Davis
Colette Davis
Walter Davis
Gotham Desai
Laura Devaul
Patrick & Judy Diamond
Jill Dinwiddie
Ambrose Dittloff
Tracy Dorsett
Bobby Drakford
Philip DuBois
Melanee Duncan-Smith
Larken Egleston
Wayne Edge
Gainor Eisenlohr
Diane English
Mark Erwin
Anne Essaye
Nepherterra Estrada
Crystal Evell
Reed Fallon
Claire Fallon
Dan Farris
Rodney Faulkner
Ted Fillette
Tracy Finch
Ron Fisher
Walter Fisher, Jr.
Joel Ford
Anthony Fox
Toni Freeman
Antonio Gault
Rodrick Gee
Maryann Gilmore
De Alva Glenn
C Paisley Gordon
Pamela Gordon
Patrick & Katina Graham
Stanley Graham
Celia Gray
Herbert & Felicia Gray
Kimberly Green
G Patrick Griffin
Williams Grubb
David Haggart
Elizabeth Hair
E Claudette Hampton
Glen Hardymon
Tyrone and Tanisha Harmon
Robert Harrington
Cammie Harris
Connie Harris
Dee-Dee Harris
Johnny Harris
William Harris
Judy Harrison-Barry
Renata Henderson
Thomas Henson
Michael Hernandez
Deborah Hester
Keia Hewitt
Jamie Hialo
Diane Hill
Anna Hood
James Homan
Mary Hopper
Ann Marie Howard
Jeffrey Huberman
Laurissa Hunt
G. Patrick Hunter
John Huson
Susan Jackson
Rosalyn Jacobs
Clare Jansson
Charles Johnson
Yolanda Johnson
B H Johnson
Alicia Jones
David Jones
Sean Jones
Harriet Kaplan
Eric Law
Alvin Levine
Daniel Levine
Georgia Lewis
David Liles
Nina Lipton
Judy Lisenby
J. Mark Little
Emma Littlejohn
Viola Lyles
Harriette Mahoney
Thomas Manley II
Todd Mansfield
Joan Martin
Scott McClure
Valecia McDowell
Pender McElroy
Jeffery McEwen
Susan McGuire
Tom McKittrick
James McLawhorn
Linda McLendon
Thomas McMillan III
Kirah Mehta
David Miller
Jerome Miller
William Miller
Eric Montgomery
Kim Montgomery
Angeles Moore
Luther Moore
Frank Neely
Anna Nelson
Dr Ann Newman
Michael O’Brien
Joy Paige
Greg Pappanastos
Peter A. Pappas
Peter B. Pappas
Clarinda Patterson
Patricia Rodgers
Baily Patrick
Bailey Patrick Jr.
Bruce Perkins
Steve Perlenk
Yvonne Pettis
Courtney Pharr
Beth Pickering
John Porter
J. Norfleet Pruden II
James Rash
Del Raticliffe
Velma Ratcliff
Chad Readler
Patrick Ridinger
Patrick Riley
Thomas River
Michael Rizer
Robert A. Cox
Cheryl Roberts
Donald Robinson
Sally Robinson
Nicholas Rose
Stephen Rosenburgh
Lloyd Scher
Stephen Schiavone
John Schriml
James Scruggs
Tonya Sellers
Jacqueline Shipe
Thomas Shoup
Robert Sink
Timothy Sittema
Darin Smith
Juanda Smith
Michael Smith
Sam Spencer
Patricia Stanford
Cheryl Steele
Paul Steffens
Mary Settlemyre
Jonathan Strayhorn
Shella Sylla
Robert Szymkiewicz
Michael Tanck
H. Allen Tate, Jr.
Claire Tate
Majorie Tate
Lisa Taylor
Charles Teal
Vinod Thomas
Spencer Thompson
Noell Tin
Michael Tomlinson
Rhonda Torrence
Yolanda Trotman
Miles Vaughn
Cynthia Wallace
J.G. Walton
Carlos Watson
Lynn Weis
Robert Vest
Noelle Vogel
Stanley Wade
Ginger Walker
Wilbert Watson
Ed Weisiger, Jr.
Joe White Jr
Michael Whitehead
Michael Wiggins
Brandi Williams
Denise Williams
Brian Willis
Jackie Wilson
Tawana Wilson-Allen
Ryland Winston, Jr.
Anna Woods
Velva Woollen
Landon Wyatt, III
Lewis Young
Robert Young

Political Action Committees Support

Piedmont Natural Gas PAC
Mecklenburg G&L PAC
SPPACE
North Carolina Realtor PAC