Author: Brandia Deatherage | Published: May 6th, 2010

    In yesterday’s primary election, Beaufort County resident Ashley Woolard defeated three competitors to win the North Carolina Republican Party’s nomination to run for the U.S. House of Representatives District 1 seat, currently held by Democrat G.K. Butterfield.

    Woolard received 45 percent of the 8,302 votes cast for the Republican contenders across the 23 northeastern counties comprising District 1; whereas Butterfield received 73 percent of the 63,243 votes cast for the Democratic contenders.

Check back tomorrow for more on the Woolard-Butterfield race.

Beaufort County commissioner Stan Deatherage, candidate for U.S. Congress Ashley Woolard and Woolard's campaign manager Bill Tarpenning, from left, watch the local news channel at last night's victory party at Down on Main Street in Washington as votes accumulate for Woolard and Woolard's opponent U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield (Dem-N.C.).

Republican Party activists Charles Hickman and Buzz Cayton, Woolard and Republican Party Chairman Larry Britt, from left, look at a printout of vote totals from across Beaufort County.

Woolard receives a gold, plastic name tag reading "Ashley Woolard Candidate U.S. Congress" from campiagn volunteer Larry Herwig, from left, who said that by winning the primary Woolard had graduated from paper sticker tags, and that if he wins the general election would receive an official brass name tag.

Woolard speaks to a crowd of supporters, including his wife, Jessica, far right, after the Associated Press called the race and declared him winner of his party's nomination as Republican candidate for U.S. Congress.

Scott Shepherd, right, congratulates Deatherage on his first-place finish in the Republican primary for Beaufort County commissioner.

    This article provided courtesy of our sister site: Beaufort County Now

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