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Foxx calls for runoff in 5th District The Associated Press July 28, 2004   7:23 am WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- State Sen. Virginia Foxx has notified the State Board of Elections that she wants a runoff in the Republican primary for the 5th Congressional District, but her opponent says she should withdraw from the race.Winston-Salem Council Member Vernon Robinson, who outpolled Foxx in the primary, said that Foxx should follow the lead of Richard Vinroot, who said last Thursday that he would not ask for a runoff in the Republican primary for governor. Vinroot finished second to Patrick Ballantine."If she is...

WINSTON-SALEM | "Grass, paper, Monk." When Jay Helvey says the words, he sounds like he's playing the traditional children's game, "Paper, rock, scissors." What he's really doing is describing the beginning of one of the world's great resumes. In something of a Horatio Alger story, Helvey, 45, the child of teachers Jim and Doris Helvey of Lexington, has parlayed a classic local childhood work experience of the 1960s and '70s - mowing yards, delivering The Dispatch, hopping curb at Lexington Barbecue, applying veneer finishes at Carolina Panel Co. - into great success in academia and the business world. He served...

Fifth District race getting interesting Many political observers in the Triad think that the entrance of Ed Broyhill into the congressional race hurts state Sen. Virginia Foxx the most. She was counting on her base of support outside of Forysth County, and particularly in the northwestern mountain counties, to at least get her into a runoff with one of the many Forysth candidates. But Broyhill has obvious connections, family and personal, in many of those same counties. One of those competing for the nomination,Nathan Tabor of Kernersville, reportedly fired a previous set of consultants because they had proposed a campaign...