Fayetteville Today

State Rep. Chris Humphrey (R-Lenoir) recently joined BJ Murphy, Neuse News publisher, to discuss the upcoming election and his reelection bid. 

Among the topics the two discussed were voter identification laws, reopening of North Carolina schools, rural broadband internet access and COVID-19’s impact on the state budget, according to a Neuse News Facebook post sharing the video on Sept. 29.

As a first-term member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Humphrey said in the video that he feels there’s a lot of unfinished business, and he wants to keep working to represent his district.

“Obviously we left the General Assembly without a budget – I thought we had a very responsible budget that we put forth,” Humphrey told Murphy in the video. “It was a bipartisan budget, and, of course, it was vetoed.”

Though the state House had a sufficient vote to override the two-year budget’s veto, the state Senate could not muster the votes, he said.

Humphrey said that the next step on the budget is to look at the new revenue estimates the General Assembly receives in September, and from there identify where the state is going to face the most challenges in funding the budget.

“There’s a lot of good things that we’re trying to get accomplished here in eastern North Carolina,” he told Murphy.

Among those things Humphrey said he wants to see accomplished just in his part of the state are funding for the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine and the Ayden Commercialization Project.

“The schools – there’s a bond discussion to help revitalize our schools in Lenoir County and Pitt County, and multiple highway projects,” Humphrey told Murphy. “There’s some unfinished business that I want to fight for the folks of this district.”