Ex-Senate Candidate to Run for North Carolina Insurance Commissioner

June 15, 2015

Unsuccessful 2014 U.S. Senate candidate Heather Grant says she’ll run for North Carolina insurance commissioner in 2016.

Grant of Wilkes County announced Friday she will seek the Republican Party’s nomination for the job. Current Democratic incumbent Wayne Goodwin has served since 2009.

Grant is a nurse practitioner and U.S. Army veteran who finished fourth in the eight-candidate GOP primary for Senate with almost 5 percent of the vote. Primary winner Thom Tillis is now in the Senate.

Grant says she’s running because it’s time to focus on ensuring North Carolina residents have their freedoms and security so that they can grow and prosper.

The insurance commissioner regulates insurance companies and their agents, and judges rate requests. The commissioner is also the state fire marshal.

Topics North Carolina Politics

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  • June 23, 2015 at 9:44 am
    Agent says:
    Why in the world would someone get and hold an Insurance License and then go to be a nurse practitioner? Could it be that she wasn't very good at insurance? If that is the c... read more
  • June 22, 2015 at 4:46 pm
    Michael says:
    She was also a licensed agent from 1999 to 2012.
  • June 17, 2015 at 12:27 pm
    Agent says:
    Something tells me that a Nurse Practitioner is not qualified to be an Insurance Commissioner.

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