News Briefs: Democrats trumpet efforts during annual Carter-Kennedy celebration

From the Statesville Record & Landmark
By Jim McNally
Published March 27, 2010

This year, Watauga County cabinetmaker and radio personality Billy Kennedy is taking on [Virginia] Foxx.
Kennedy followed up with what Hamby said about the party's advances in social matters.
"All the progress we've made in this country is because Democrats have always looked ahead and not backwards," Kennedy said.
He said the recently-passed health care legislation was an example of that progress.
"Getting that bill through has gone a long way toward making health care in this country a right and not a privilege," Kennedy said.

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