NC Senator Julia Boseman

Senator Boseman is currently mired in controvery. When she was first elected four years ago, she was outed by a conservative group in a nasty mailing for being a lesbian (something Senator Boseman had not been hiding, in fact was quite open about). Luckily, the citizens of Wilmington rallied around her and she became our area's state senator. Now with a new election coming up this fall she is again having things in her past dug up and used against her.

In a bitter custody battle over her son, Senator Boseman admitted to smoking pot before running for office in a deposition (read the story on WHQR here). As the Republican party plans to use this to try to defeat Senator Boseman in this year's election, I hope that her constituents remember that the head of the Republican Party itself had allegations of cocaine use plagued his first run with his response to those allegation being "I don't remember" (here and here) and is a recovering alcoholic. Senator Boseman pointed out to WHQR that despite the admittance in the deposition she still won custody of her son and quickly sought counseling in 2003 to help her deal with her problems at the time.

In addition to this new revelation it has also come out that Senator Boseman failed to pay $5000 in property taxes on a home that she and her partner shared. Senator Boseman did transfer the property to her ex-partner last year. While I do not condone not paying your taxes, I also know how much property taxes in our area have gone up and how difficult it can be in these hard economic times to keep up, especially when one is dealing with the splitting of a long-time relationship and divvying up property.

I think it's key here to remember what Senator Boseman has done for out area and for our great state. In 2007 and 2008 Senator Boseman sponsored 187 bills and was the primary sponsor of 77 of those bills. Most of these bills deal with making punishments of violent crimes against children and women more strict, closing loopholes on gun laws, and enacting new stiffer laws against sexual predators. Other bills include; promoting renewable energy, increasing rescue and fire pensions, marine research funds, as well as many different bills that directly benefit New Hanover County. She is on 10 committees, is co-chair on two of those and vice-chair on another. Her voting record is one that any parent or New Hanover resident should be proud of, with very few abscenses. Granted the 2007-2008 doesn't seem to have many contentious bills on the plate, she still managed to get many of her bills through and voted on some other respectable bills. In short, she has been a good Senator for us and is a State Senator that I am proud of.