NC has a state senator, former I believe, Fern Schubert.
Correct! Fern ran for Governor and lost (badly, unfortunately, because she'd have been great). Eddie Goodall has her former Senate seat. She was Town Manager of Indian Trail for a while, just long enough to observe that the Town's finances were a mess and in violation of State and Federal law.
Now she's writing a weekly political expose' column for an independent Union County newspaper, and I haven't heard so much dirt since I last went to a country funeral!