Bryant

“I am thankful and blessed to be filing for re-election to a sixth term in the North Carolina Legislature as your senator for District 4 proudly representing Nash, Halifax, Vance, Wilson and Warren Counties,” she said in a statement. “I am very respectful of the confidence voters have shown in me for four different elections in four different districts – one local and three legislative.

“This year I had the privilege to be a primary sponsor of the most important legislation of my career — the bill to approve the sale of our Electricities’ share in nuclear and coal plants to Duke Progress and reduce the debt and electric costs for years to come in Scotland Neck and Hobgood and provide needed additional energy resources across the state.”

Bryant said she also fought for regional sales tax fairness “that will bring additional resources to all of our towns and the county, for transfer of the amphitheater at Historic Halifax to the county and to preserve some vestige of the historic preservation tax credit program.”

Said Bryant: “I have also worked hard to marshal all the resources of the state in support of our economic development projects to keep jobs and grow jobs throughout the county.”

The senator said she will continue to fight for the priorities that matter to the hardworking people of eastern and rural North Carolina – for teachers, small businesses, community economic development and good-paying jobs. “I will fight to stop shifting tax burdens from the wealthy corporations to hardworking families and to stop further cuts to education. I will fight to keep community colleges and universities affordable and accessible for the children of hardworking taxpayers and to protect our environment and quality of life.”

Bryant, a lawyer and organizational consultant, has contributed 35 years to public service.

That service includes time as a UNC-CH Trustee, UNC System Board of Governors, State Administrative Law Judge, Rocky Mount City Council and state legislature for five terms.

She serves on the following Senate Committees:

Appropriations Subcommittee on Natural & Economic Resources, and the Finance, Commerce, Education, Agriculture and Environment, Base Budget, Pensions and Retirement and Judiciary II Committees.

Bryant is also appointed to the Elections, Justice and Public Safety, and Economic Development Oversight Committees and the Joint Study Committee on the Affordable Care Act.

She is chair of the Roanoke River Basin Bi-State Commission to which she was appointed by the governor.