The Clintons are coming North Carolina this week.
Today, Sen. Hillary Clinton will visit Raleigh, Fayetteville and Winston-Salem.
The Winston-Salem event will be held at the Forsyth Technical Community College gymnasium at 1300 Bolton St.
The event is free and no ticket are required, according the Clinton campaign.
On Friday, former President Bill Clinton will likely pass through Statesville on Friday when he campaigns for his wife in several cities close to Iredell County.
Bill Clinton, who was in Charlotte and Cary last week, will attend campaign events in Greensboro, High Point, Kannapolis, Salisbury and Hickory to drum up support for his wife in advance of North Carolina’s primary elections in May.
The Clintons’ visit follows a trip to Greensboro by Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday.
GOP Forum
North Carolina’s Republican candidates will try to convince potential voters that have what it takes to lead the state during a forum next week in Charlotte.
The event is being sponsored by The League of Women Voters, the Carolina Business Review and WTVI Studios.
Four of the five GOP candidates governor - Salisbury attorney Bill Graham, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, former Supreme Court justice Bob Orr and state Sen. Fred Smith - have agreed to participate.
The forum will air on WTVI as a special edition of Carolina Business Review at 9 p.m. April 4; 2:30 a.m. April 5; and noon April 6.
Three Democrats are also in the race for the governor’s mansion: N.C. Treasurer Richard Moore, Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue and retired U.S. Air Force Col. Dennis Nielsen.
Johnson calls for energy clamp-down
Hickory attorney Daniel Johnson, a candidate for U.S. Congress from North Carolina’s 10th District, called for Congress to address the escalating energy crisis.
In a release, Johnson noted gasoline prices are at an all-time high and that the average American is feeling the crunch.
“These sky-rocketing gas prices are bankrupting our small businesses and our families,” Johnson said.
“It doesn’t add up that big oil companies are making record profits and their CEOs are earning record bonuses while ordinary Americans are paying record-high prices at the pump.”
Johnson, who will face Hickory engineer Steve Ivester in Democratic primary, said he would advocate for the government “to work with both private industry and consumers to increase the efficiency of fossil fuel use and to encourage investment in renewable energy sources like solar, wind and bio-fuels.”
He also said he would “crack down on gas price-gouging” and would support raising the average miles per gallon on automobiles.
“Our dependence on Middle East oil is also a national security issue,” said Johnson. “We cannot allow our economy to be held hostage by what are often hostile foreign regimes.”
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