The 2024 general election is nearly 11 months away – on Tuesday, Nov. 5 – but it’s not too early for the Rhino Times to project some winners.
Filing for the 2024 election closed at noon on Friday, Dec. 15, and since nobody filed to run against a number of candidates, it’s a pretty safe bet that they are going to win whether they spend a nickel on their campaign or not. It is possible for a candidate to lose even if they have no competition on the ballot because there can be write-in candidates. However, the chance of a write-in candidate winning are somewhere between slim and none, but much closer to none.
District 8 Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston, who was just re-elected chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, attracts a lot of opposition from people who comment on articles. However, despite the fact that some people are opposed to just about everything Alston supports, not one person in District 8 filed to run against Alston. So, while other candidates are battling their way through a contested primary on March 5, Alston won’t even be on the primary ballot. And for the general election, his name will be the only one on the ballot in the District 8 Guilford County commissioner race – giving Alston an excellent chance of winning.
District 1 Guilford County Board of Education member T. Dianne Bellamy-Small has been involved in some heated elections over the years, having served on the Greensboro City Council before losing a re-election bid, and then being elected to the Guilford County Board of Education. But this year Bellamy-Small should be able to waltz back into her school board seat for another four years since no one filed to run against her.
Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen was first elected register of deeds in 2004, and since no one filed to run against him, on Nov. 5 he will almost certainly be re-elected to serve another four years as Mr. Deeds.
District 58 North Carolina House Rep. Amos Quick, who started his political career on the Guilford County Board of Education, will be all alone on the ballot in the District 58 race.
District 28 NC state Sen. Gladys Robinson filed on opening day and no Democrat or Republican has filed to run against her.
Nine Democratic candidates are running unopposed for Guilford County District Court judge. They are Tonia A. Cutchin, Ashely Watlington-Simms, Carolina Tomlinson-Pemberton, Walter W. (Trip) Baker III, Michelle Fletcher, Angela C. Foster, Angela (Angie) Bullard Fox and Bill Davis.
And the beat goes on.
Brilliant predictions Rhino Times! Unfortunately, you are correct and accurate on all fronts. It is also unfortunate for the Citizens of Guilford County that will have to survive once again under this mediocre leadership!
Jim Donaldson
I agree. Many of these individuals aren’t just unfortunate citizens who are just not intelligent enough to carry out their jobs efficiently, They sentence innocent individuals to the penal system who have committed no crimes. Magistrates are allowing people to be charged with crimes without a shred of evidence and judges who have the responsibility of deciding a child’s future and safety, whom they’ve never met, have just taken children from their parents for no readon, or rather without any testimony or tangible evidence. The judge announced in courtroom 2B that she had already decided a case before she had heard it. The court appointed attorneys for the parents did not object nor report her to the appropriate department. She has become so comfortable with destroying families, she did not even think to consider the court transcripts from that morning are enough to have her permanently removed from her position and ever practicing law again.
No wonder why most of Guilford County is liberal and left leaning is that no Republicans even bother getting on the ballot! 9 District Court Judges running unopposed says it all. You can’t win when you have nothing in the game. Shame on Republicans once again.
Perhaps the Republican lawyers are all in much better jobs with much better earning potential and have no desire to spend their time as a district court judge. It likely takes a special person to want that job.
Get out of the County!