Mike C. Stone

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Mike C. Stone
State Representative, District 51
Incumbent
Assumed office
2011
Preceded by Jimmy Love
Sanford City Council & Mayor Pro Tem
In office
2006–2011
Succeeded by Samuel Gaskins
Personal details
Born (1970-01-09) January 9, 1970
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Jennifer Womble Stone
Residence Sanford, North Carolina

Michael C. "Mike" Stone (born January 9, 1970) is an American businessman and political figure from Sanford, North Carolina. He currently represents the 51st House District in the North Carolina General Assembly. Stone is the current chairman of the House Government committee.[1]

Career

Stone is a businessman, the owner of O'’Connell'’s Supermarket in Sanford.[2][3] He first ran for the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2004, but was defeated in the election.[3] In 2010, Stone made a second bid, defeating Jimmy Love, Sr. to take a seat.[4] In 2011, Stone made news when he protested that his then-8-year-old daughter was part of a class-assigned letter writing campaign corresponding with him to protest budget cuts.[5][6]

In 2012, Stone began his second term.[7] In 2013, he introduced several politically contentious bills, among them to switch Sanford city and Lee County school boards from non-partisan to partisan, and to shift the responsibility for assigning school resource officers from the school board to the sheriff's office.[8][9] A third bill passed by legislation to change the members of the Central Carolina Community College board of trustees by removing those four members who had been appointed by the Lee County school board and dividing their seats among the school boards of Lee, Chatham and Harnett counties has resulted in a lawsuit, with the trustees seeking to block their removal.[8]

References

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  2. ↑ Chamber of Commerce
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "Lawmaker upset when daughter's class appeals for school funding". WRAL. June 6, 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2014. 
  6. ↑ "GOP state rep. gets budget protest from daughter". CBS News. June 6, 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2014. 
  7. ↑ http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/membersByDistrict.pl?sChamber=H&nDistrict=51
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Doran, Will (January 5, 2014). "Looking Back at 2013: Legislative action has local effects". Sanford Herald. Retrieved 1 February 2014. 
  9. ↑ "Sanford radio show taken off college station after NC Rep complains". NC Policy Watch. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2014. 
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