Welcome back to the Carolina Cabinet, Cumberland County's smartest hour of talk radio. Host Peter Pappas sits down with State Rep. Diane Wheatley, who has represented NC House District 43 since 2021.
Wheatley talks about growing up in a military family — born at Fort Campbell, the daughter of an Army paratrooper — and the path that led her from the Cumberland County Board of Education to Raleigh. Peter presses her on bringing state tax dollars home, the 8% average teacher raise in the new state budget, whether school vouchers take money from public schools, and whether anyone is coordinating the school board, the county commissioners, and the local delegation.
A registered nurse, Wheatley explains why her biomarker-testing bill passed the House and never got a Senate hearing, defends the delegation's role in 911 consolidation, and makes her case for another term — hospital growth, rural health care, and staying accessible to constituents.
Wheatley faces Democrat Janene Ackles in November. Find all of our candidate conversations at thecarolinacabinet.com.
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