News 14 Carolina sent a questionnaire to everyone running for office in the Charlotte viewing area and in statewide races. Read what the Republican candidates for U.S. Congress 9th District had to say.
Sue Myrick
Position Seeking: US House of Representatives, North Carolina District 9
Party: Republican
Age: 66
Occupation: Member of Congress, former small business owner
Family: Husband, Ed. two children, three step-children, 12 grandkids, 5 great-grandkids
Length of time living in current location: Charlotte, NC for 38 years; born in Tiffin, Ohio
Why are you running for this office?
I’m fighting to secure our borders and stop illegal immigration, lower gas prices by allowing us to drill for oil and build refineries in America, create affordable healthcare for everyone, balance the budget, cut spending and taxes, create jobs, and protect the public from the threats posed by radical Islamist terrorists.
What are your top 3 priorities?
1. Strengthening our national security, because protecting the public is the number one job of the government.
2. Strengthening our economy through drilling for oil and building refineries here in America to lower the price of gas, creating affordable healthcare, lowering taxes to help families and small businesses keep more of their hard earned money, ending the taxation on social security incomes to help fixed income seniors, and enforcing our laws to punish China for their unfair trade practices and economic espionage.
3. Clamping down on illegal immigration by securing our borders, expanding the 287 (g) program, ensuring we get our immigration court opened this year, building a deportation center in our area, deporting criminal illegal aliens, and doing more to prevent illegals from getting jobs in the US.
If elected, what is the biggest issue facing your constituents over the next term?
The high cost of gas, healthcare, grocery prices and education costs—costs that could increase even more if Congress votes to increase taxes - which they are about to do—meanwhile people’s paychecks are not increasing, thanks to things like illegal aliens depressing American wages.
How do you consider yourself different than your opponent(s) in this race?
I fight for the values and beliefs of the people in our district.
Jack Stratton has yet to respond to the News 14 Carolina survey.
Candidates are listed in the order in which their responses were received.