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Powell for Congress Suite 200 Park West •4400 Silas Creek Parkway• Winston-Salem, NC 27104 (336) 768-0035 www.powellforcongress.com e-mail - ed@powellforcongress.com For Immediate Release June 9, 2004 Contact: Ed Powell (336) 768-0035 (O), (336) 722-9909 (H), or (336) 655-6269(Cell) Former North Carolina Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Edward L. Powell, Republican candidate for the Fifth Congressional District, today strongly condemned the recent Supreme Court decision that allows Mexican trucks to use the highways of the United States. Powell said, “This is another direct result of the disastrous North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has already virtually destroyed our textile and furniture...

<p>A North Carolina newspaper meant to chastise Republican Vernon Robinson when it declared: "Jesse Helms is back! This time, he's black."</p> <p>Now that quote has become Mr. Robinson's campaign slogan as he battles seven other 5th District congressional candidates in the July 20 Republican primary.</p>

U.S. Rep. Richard Burr's decision to seek the U.S. Senate seat of John Edwards may have some Piedmont Triad voters remembering the 1970s television comedy "Eight is Enough." With the primary election more than three months away and the general election seven months off, eight candidates are already in a messy tussle for the Republican nomination for Burr's 5th Congressional District seat. They include current and former state legislators and a black conservative activist. There's also a soy supplement executive and the scion of the Broyhill furniture family. Though most campaigns only heat up in the final weeks before a...

FYI...Ed Powell's website-- www.powellforcongress.com --is up and running.

Tuesday, March 2, 2004 Filing criticizes Foxx's spending She says expenses linked to Senate, not congressional, run By David Rice and Theo Helm JOURNAL REPORTERS State Sen. Virginia Foxx continued to defend spending from her state Senate campaign yesterday as at least one complaint was filed with the Federal Election Commission saying that she used money from the state campaign to support her campaign for Congress. Foxx's campaign opponents have questioned expenses paid by her state campaign committee because federal law forbids the use of nonfederal campaign accounts to make expenditures for federal campaigns. Foxx, R-Watauga, has said repeatedly that...

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Marker is dropped off at City Hall Robinson says he didn't know procedure to get a permit to put it there By Victoria Cherrie and Theo Helm JOURNAL REPORTERS >> a d v e r t i s e m e n t << >> w e b t o o l s << Print Story | Email Story | News Tip? >> r e l a t e d m a t e r i a l << City Council Member Vernon Robinson told reporters that he bought the granite marker with his own money....

FIFTH DISTRICT REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE ED POWELL TODAY CONDEMNED THE CENTRAL AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (CAFTA) Winston-Salem, NC – Republican 5th District Congressional candidate Ed Powell announced today that he is absolutely opposed to the newly announced Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Powell said, “We should have learned our lesson from NAFTA and the awful Chinese experiment that the only people who win in these trade agreements are the Wall Street chieftains who have sold the Fifth District workers down the river in the textile and furniture industry. These big-time Wall Streeters, who have one of their own running...

"Clemmon's Courier" Thursday's Internet Edition, November 13, 2003. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More than money: Ed Powell counts on credentials By Dwight Sparks - His unshorn grandfather — long hair and long beard — had vowed not to shave or cut his hair until a Republican was elected President. Ed Powell’s grandfather missed it by four years — dying in 1948, not living to see Dwight D. Eisenhour finally reverse the GOP’s dismal fortunes during the FDR era. Powell grew up in the Davie County hinterlands, one of two sons of a lumberman who operated a sawmill where Lake Myers is today. Both...

LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ARTICLE- POSTED ON VERNON ROBINSON'S WEBSITE Link = http://vernonrobinson.com/cgi-data/news/files/54.shtml Helvey Outed as a Liberal Democrat Supported by Liberal Democrats Outing a GOP imposter Kernersville News Posted on 11/06/2003 9:40 AM PST Democrat in G.O.P. Clothing? Winston-Salem, NC - On Monday, Republican Congressional candidate Ed Powell criticized Jay Helvey for having Erskine Bowles's Finance Committee Chairman, Scott Livengood, as the chairman of the Helvey for Congress campaign. "This is proof-positive of what i suspected all along: Winston- Salem's downtown Democrats aretrying to hijack the Republican Primary with their man, Jay Helvey," Powell said. "It is...

Jay Helvey has been discovered to be a Democrat in Republican's clothing. Ed Powell's condemnation of Mr. Helvey was right on in that it showed Helvey to be someone vastly different from how he is portraying himself. Someone like Ed Powell, with proven political leadership, should be the one to look over the interests of an area that is in dire need of help. In no way possible is Mr. Helvey qualified to serve as a Congressman--especially considering his past that is starting to surface. Mr. Helvey not only has the support of those who tried to defeat Sen. Dole,...