With the State of the Union address tonight, Rep. Don Davis (D-NC) took a moment to talk about his special guest for the event — 109-year-old Cassie Smith of Battleboro, who Davis describes as a “living and walking symbol of our democracy.”
Smith was one of the first residents in the state to cast a vote during the early voting period of NC’s primary election.
In addition to Smith, other North Carolinians who will be attending the SOTU are:
📌 Durham gun violence prevention activist Lavern Lucier, whose son Syncere Burrell was murdered in 2020
📌 Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden
📌 Steven Hadfield, a Matthews man who has a rare blood cancer as well as Type 2 diabetes, and an advocate for capping Medicare out-of-pocket costs
📌 Kris Blackley, a nurse at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Center in Charlotte, invited by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden to highlight the president’s push to end cancer, the “Biden Cancer Moonshot
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