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Not sure this person really exists.

Haven't nominated it for deletion yet because I am still researching this more. However, I don't think person really exists. Whoever created this article may just be vandalizing (Take a look also at RSC Brands). I think they just made it up. I cannot find any mention of this person's name outside of Wikipedia. If you look through the edit history you will see where some of the info originally put on the page was outright false. Nothing is cited. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 08:17, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Taking out false info.

Most of this article, I think is vandalism. I previously took out the false info about being NC Speaker of the House (false and wasn't cited). I just took out info about NC House District 107. It did not serve any part of Mecklenburg County during the 1990's because the NC House only had 98 districts(!) until the 2002 redistricting when the number of representatives was increased to 120 (the house district that became 107 was district 59 held by W. Pete Cunningham from 1989 until 2007). The page creator is probably just laughing at the work they've caused for us. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 08:32, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]