The Southern Highland Reader

STATEWIDE–Former NC state senator Cal Cunningham, a Democrat, has rejoined the race to unseat current senator Richard Burr in next year’s election.

From Congressional Quarterly:

In what appears to be a case of right news, wrong timing for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, word began to leak out Tuesday that Democratic former North Carolina state Sen. Cal Cunningham has decided to reverse an earlier decision and will challenge incumbent Republican Richard M. Burr in 2010.

The decision is a victory for the DSCC, which has been working to get Cunningham to reconsider the contest after he passed on the race in mid-November. The only problem is that the news leaked out on the same day that North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, who is also competing in the Democratic primary, was holding a funeral for her husband, who died last week at age 77.

Read the piece here.

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