[ladyinred]

Erskine Bowles is running in North Carolina

Is he from anywhere near NC, or is he just a carpetbagger like his pal Hillary?

[deport]

Erskine came by his commitment to public service close to home. Born in Greensboro in 1945, he is the great-grandson of a Methodist minister and the second of four children of Jessamine and Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles. Skipper Bowles was an ardent Democrat, state legislator, head of Governor Terry Sanford's Department of Commerce, Democratic nominee for Governor in 1972, and chairman of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Erskine grew up in Greensboro, graduated from UNC, Chapel Hill in 1967, served in the Coast Guard reserves, and earned his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1969.