Raleigh – Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger has criticized as “purely partisan” and “political gamesmanship” a decision by the State Board of Elections to hold a new statewide election for Commissioner of Agriculture. “While I’m confident Steve Troxler would prevail in a special election,” Berger said, “a new statewide election will be expensive and is unlikely to draw as much attention as the November race. The three and a half million North Carolinians who voted in the Commissioner of Agriculture race in November deserve to have their votes counted. North Carolina elected a new Agriculture Commissioner who should be allowed...