NC Dems' eyes are on ex-beauty queen to defeat Rep. Robin Hayes (NC 8th District)

Charlotte Observer ^ | June 4, 2004 | RONNIE GLASSBERG

[jern]

Dems' eyes are on ex-beauty queen Can she unseat Hayes in 8th District?

RONNIE GLASSBERG Staff Writer

Daunted by Rep. Robin Hayes' financial muscle, Democrats say they are counting on a former beauty queen to unseat him by drawing on her connections with Hollywood donors.

In North Carolina's 8th Congressional District, top Democrats decided to stay out of this year's race, even though some party leaders view Hayes, the incumbent Concord Republican, as vulnerable.

That leaves two lesser-known candidates: Mark Ortiz, a Kannapolis Green Party activist running as a Democrat; and Beth Troutman, 27, a former beauty pageant contestant from Concord who has been working in Los Angeles as assistant to the executive producer and director of NBC-TV's "The West Wing."

[jern]

nc ping

[ken5050]

IMHO, she's a dead ringer for Amber Frey...can you do a side-by-side?

[RexBeach]

You mean "The Left Wing". Dontcha?

[bayourod]

Now I see why Miss America has never been from N. Carolina.

[Patrick1]

I'm sure Clinton will be happy to come in and campaign for her, both of them.

[Constitution Day]

NC *Ping*

Please FRmail me, mykdsmom or TaxRelief if you want to be added to or removed from this North Carolina ping list.

[ken5050]

see my #4..can you pull up a pic of Amber?

[Constitution Day]

[subterfuge]

"By all accounts, she's out in Hollywood trying to raise money from her left-leaning, Barbra Streisand-listening, Martin Sheen take-your-guns-away friends," he said.

Haaaaaaaa!

[Dan from Michigan]

"By all accounts, she's out in Hollywood trying to raise money from her left-leaning, Barbra Streisand-listening, Martin Sheen take-your-guns-away friends," he said.

Perfect!

[ken5050]

Ya Think????

[Constitution Day]

I'd have to see a larger photo of Mizz "Troutman" (snicker)

But yes, there's some resemblance.

[ken5050]

where are all the intrepid FR researchers?

[lilylangtree]

Gracious, she worked on West Wing. She's calling on her H'weirdo friends for assistance. She's a bloody liberal leftist communist demoncRAT. Hopefully, North Carolinians will recognize this.

[NCSteve]

Don't count on it.

In polling, Bush beats Kerry in NC by 3% unless Edwards is Kerry's running mate. If Edwards gets the veep nod, Kerry beats Bush in NC by 5%.

NC voters aren't exactly idealogically oriented.

[zbigreddogz]

What polls have you been looking at? The last 3 i've seen show Bush beating Kerry by 10pts, and 5pts if Edwards is the VP nominee.

[mykdsmom]

Troutman brings some name recognition from her days in beauty pageants.

In her farewell speech at the 2000 Miss Raleigh pageant, she caused an uproar when she claimed on stage that the Miss North Carolina pageant was rigged against her.

In typical liberal fashion Mz. Troutmouth claimed it wasn't her fault "Everyone is out to get me". I'm so sick and tired of the blame everyone else first crowd.

MKM