House District 98
Melinda Bales
Melinda Bales believes in increasing high-paying vocational and technical training opportunities for our students, which is why she helped lead the Lake Norman Education Collaborative, connecting schools directly with local businesses.
70%
of voters said they would be more likely to vote for Bales after learning this.
Melinda Bales knows that a four-year college degree isn’t the only path to success, which is why she supports a plan to create more programs for students to pursue vocational or technical education.
73%
of voters said they would be more likely to vote for Bales after learning this.
Melinda Bales believes we need to overhaul North Carolina’s broken transportation funding system, which isn’t able to keep up with growth and has resulted in heavy traffic and congestion.
61%
of voters said they would be more likely to vote for Bales after learning this.
As Mayor of Huntersville, Melinda Bales increased funding for school resource officers, strengthened school security, and invested in a comprehensive community-based plan to increase parental involvement in our local schools.
64%
of voters said they would be more likely to vote for Bales after learning this.
Melinda Bales believes the victims of violent crime deserve a voice, which is why she created Victims’ Advocates at all local police departments.
65%
of voters said they would be more likely to vote for Bales after learning this.
Beth Helfrich
Beth Helfrich supports getting rid of School Resource Officers completely, which would make our schools less safe for students.
68%
of voters said they would be less likely to vote for Helfrich after learning this.
Even though gas prices continue to rise and inflation makes it harder for families to make ends meet, Beth Helfrich is pushing a plan that would raise the price of gas even further by banning technology that would lower the cost of oil.
63%
of voters said they would be less likely to vote for Helfrich after learning this.
Beth Helfrich supports a bill that would eliminate math and science positions in schools, increase class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, and remove protections for Exceptional Children programs in order to create a new multi-billion-dollar bureaucracy that would micromanage how principals run their schools and teachers manage their classrooms.
68%
of voters said they would be less likely to vote for Helfrich after learning this.
Beth Helfrich supports a radical plan to allow prostitution and legalize all drugs, including meth and heroin.
61%
of voters said they would be less likely to vote for Helfrich after learning this.
Beth Helfrich backs a complete government takeover of healthcare, banning private
health insurance plans, tripling the size of the state budget, and raising taxes on hardworking
North Carolinians to pay for it.
61%
of voters said they would be less likely to vote for Helfrich after learning this.
Beth Helfrich supports a bill that would require teachers and principals to undergo racist DEI training, introduce Critical Race Theory into our state’s K-12 public schools, and establish race-based hiring quotas in education.
57%
of voters said they would be less likely to vote for Helfrich after learning this.