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Greg Dority will run for the NC 3rd District If he runs for re-election, Congressman Walter Jones will face Conservative GOP Primary opposition. Long whispered grumblings among conservative GOP activists, frustrated by their perception of an ineffective state Party and its “elite” state and national leaders, whom they also believe to be indifferent to their concerns for the nation and their ideology, is certain to bloom into a full-fledged populist revolt drawing state, national and perhaps international attention. In an exclusive interview late Friday, former NC 1st District GOP congressional nominee Greg Dority told me he will run for Congress...

Ballance expected to plead guilty to mishandling public money By STEVE HARTSOE, Associated Press Writer November 9, 2004   12:05 pm RALEIGH, N.C. -- Frank Ballance, the former U.S. congressman who resigned from his eastern North Carolina seat this summer, is to plead guilty Tuesday to a federal corruption charge related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation, his lawyer said.Ballance, a 62-year-old Democrat, was in his first term representing the 1st Congressional District when he resigned in June, citing ill health.His lawyer, Joseph B. Cheshire V said Ballance would enter his plea at an arraignment Tuesday afternoon in...