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The education commission would seek to find ways to give more power to parents and teachers for educating children while asking the General Assembly to raise the ceiling on charter schools.
The roads commission would seek ways to fund bridge and road repairs in the state. Munger realizes opting for repairs instead of building new ones isn’t the way to get votes, but he says 20 percent of the bridges in the state are rated a 30 or less. “They’re in danger of falling down,” he said during a campaign stop at Wings & Rings in Roanoke Rapids Sunday night.
Munger was on a three-day tour of the state, starting in the mountains and going to the coast late Sunday night, traveling U.S. Highway 64 to get to his destinations.
The highway, he said, reflects the different personalities of the state, the poor mountain regions, the wealthy Triad and Triangle regions and again the poor eastern region. “Roanoke Rapids is in the eastern region,” he said. “It’s not clear where help is going to come from.”
Munger, who is running against Democrat Beverly Perdue and Republican Pat McCrory, is hoping to get 5 percent of the vote in the election, which assures him the Libertarian Party will be on the ballot in 2012, an election in which he already plans to run.
What will hurt that 5 percent chance, he said, is an Obama landslide because those people will have most likely voted a straight party ticket. “They are voting for a president,” he said.
If Munger gets more than 4.4 percent of the vote, he will have set a North Carolina record for votes cast for a Libertarian candidate.
If the comments made to him by people on his tour are true, then he should get 10 percent of the vote.
Munger believes the two-party system is broken. “We rely on the candidate making the most grandiose promises. You need a third party to take different positions,” he said.
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