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Wayne Turner (Green Party) (also known as Michael) ran for election for Governor of North Carolina. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Turner completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Wayne Turner was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Turner earned a bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University in 1980. His career experience includes working as a general manager, project manager, research engineer, and community college instructor.^[1]

Elections

2024

General election

General election for Governor of North Carolina

Josh Stein defeated Mark K. Robinson, Mike Ross, Vinny Smith, and Wayne Turner in the general election for Governor of North Carolina on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Josh Stein (D)	54.9	3,069,496
	Mark K. Robinson (R)	40.1	2,241,309
	Mike Ross (L)	3.2	176,392
	Vinny Smith (Constitution Party)	1.0	54,738
	Wayne Turner (G)	0.9	49,612

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 5,591,547
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Gordon Ward (Independent)
Donte McCorey Sr. (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of North Carolina

Josh Stein defeated Michael R. Morgan, Chrelle Booker, Marcus Williams, and Gary Foxx in the Democratic primary for Governor of North Carolina on March 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Josh Stein	69.6	479,026
	Michael R. Morgan	14.3	98,627
	Chrelle Booker	6.7	46,045
	Marcus Williams	5.7	39,257
	Gary Foxx	3.7	25,283

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 688,238
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of North Carolina

Mark K. Robinson defeated Dale Folwell and Bill Graham in the Republican primary for Governor of North Carolina on March 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Mark K. Robinson	64.8	666,504
	Dale Folwell	19.2	196,955
	Bill Graham	16.0	164,572

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,028,031
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Green primary election

The Green primary election was canceled. Wayne Turner advanced from the Green primary for Governor of North Carolina.

Libertarian primary election

Libertarian primary for Governor of North Carolina

Mike Ross defeated Shannon Bray in the Libertarian primary for Governor of North Carolina on March 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Mike Ross	59.4	2,910
	Shannon Bray	40.6	1,985

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 4,895
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

Wayne Turner completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Turner's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a 69 year old, retired former engineer and plant manager, residing in Pittsboro, NC. I have been involved in third party independent politics as a Green for the last two decades.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Our system of representative democracy no longer works for the majority of the population. The influence of monied interests, combined with antiquated voting laws and methods, have seen democracy slip away from the larger masses of the people. Control is now firmly in the hands of monied interests, including large industrial interests, such as the fossil fuel industry, whose desired outcomes are focused solely on maintenance of profits. Similar interests counter to the public good are the banking and finance industry, the real estate sector, and private health insurance. Countering the influence of these industries requires adaptation of voting methods such as Ranked Choice Voting, proportional representation and multi-member districts.
The system of capitalism, as a method of organizing human production and determining social relations only works for a relatively few people. Many accept its restrictions because they have no resources except their own labor, and cannot avoid selling it to survive. Consequently, human production focuses on products which can sold at a profit in the market. Those profits depend on costs of production. Capitalists have found that many of those costs, such as costs of managing containment of pollutants, can be offloaded onto the general public, and do not affect cost of production, thus maximizing profit. Humanity can no longer afford this approach to production, which both overproduces, and wastes increasingly scarce natural resources.
Decisions about production, usually made by private interests, are accompanied by environmental exploitation and destruction. As capitalism privatizes profit and socializes responsibility, environmental degradation increases. This includes the threat of global warming, but on a more local level it strips or reduces the possibility of life through loss of arable land, overfishing, and loss of ecosystem resources (for example, clean water). The tremendous inequality in wealth brought about by capitalist production traps people into overexploitation of the environment for survival, and reduces the possibility of mitigation of these harms. We have to reimagine our relationship with the natural world to undo this damage, and avoid future damage.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Poverty and lack of individual opportunity, environmental protection and thoughtless overdevelopment, and the constant use of war as a means of oppression are central issues in my political thought. Each of these is interrelated, and have relations to other issues not mentioned.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

There are not many people I look up to. People whose actions I admire have been labor organizers and people resisting oppression in their communities or countries. Activists like Eugene Debs and Bill Haywood, revolutionaries like Che Guevara, Fred Hampton, and Thomas Sunkara, writers like Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Walter Rodney and Franz Fanon - all have informed my view of the world from the perspectives of the working class, the poor, and the colonized peoples of the world. They have exhibited great personal courage, willingness to sacrifice for their ideas, and provided insight into the thought of people largely ignored in what passes for analysis and commentary in the US. There are tens of thousands, probably millions of such people unacknowledged in the world, and all I hope for is contribute to their efforts to make a fairer world in which hunger, poverty, war and degradation of people does not exist.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

I do not know of a single book, essay or film that I could recommend which would cover the scope of what I understand to be reasonable courses of action. I am a socialist, and I have been influenced by many authors in publications about history, economics, race and racism, labor history and labor rights, sociology, applied science and environmental issues. I have read various writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and their contemporaries and followers, and find their economic analysis and conclusions to be largely correct. Beyond that, I offer the platform of the North Carolina Green Party as a compilation of my likely positions on most policy decisions.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Honesty about intent are what I would prefer to see in elected officials. So much of what passes for politics today is calculated deception. Dishonesty and dissembling are features of too many winning campaigns. This leads to the people copying the worst actors as a cost of success, driving out honesty. This is hardly new in politics, and perhaps it is naive to think of winning a campaign without dissemblence or prevarication. Nonetheless, it is important to me that this behavior not be copied. Distrust in our political system is at least partly fueled by this behavior.

Also, we can no longer afford fairy tales and just-so stories about the depth and magnitude of the challenges humanity faces today. Truth-telling must be part of our political process, no matter the pressures from interest groups or the advice of campaign consultants. There are experts in various fields for a reason. Public policy practices and related science may be understood in a general way by many, but when making decisions about policy, detailed information is a necessity. Rejecting expert opinion in favor of political safety gambles with the future. If constituents are served by it, that is a matter of chance.

This is closely allied to another feature of of today's elected officials, which as a blustering arrogance that is unfounded in knowledge. This behavior substitutes for reason, and covers up understanding of the roots of many of our problems. There is never a good reason for arrogance, and an elected official that exhibits it will never be a good representative. An elected official should be widely informed, or upon finding that they are not, would seek to educate themselves more broadly about issues upon which they would create policy.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

A sense of responsibility to the future, which is congruent with a sense of responsibility to humanity at large, is my primary asset. I don't view the office as a waypoint on a longer journey; my age is too advanced for that, and I have no political ambitions on my own behalf. I see the office as a vehicle for accomplishing betterment in the lives of everybody, and not anything more. I respect the opinions of people who have spent considerable effort developing expertise in their fields, and will listen to their advice. I believe I have sufficient education to understand their recommendations, but there is always more to learn, and hope to learn. I will not act without consideration of the consequences, both long term and short term. Nor will I act for personal profit or advantage. I will also listen to the people of the state in their millions, as much as possible through personal contact. Lobbyists and private interests are unlikely to gain much attention. I am more concerned with the overall welfare of state and in creating conditions for a positive future once I have left office. I do not make light of the challenges to creating a good future for the state, but I will not stop trying to make a future that is more democratic, more socially and economically equal, and more capable of providing a good life for all.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

The constitution of the state of North Carolina outlines the duties of the governor's office. Among them are duties of informing the general assembly of state affairs, the crafting of a budget, emergency powers, and enforcement of the state's laws. The governor has some appointment authority to various boards and commissions, control of the state guard, and the power to grant clemency to convicted persons in the forms of reprieves, commutations. or pardons, within certain limits. A governor may call for special sessions of the legislature.

The recent history of legislation in North Carolina has led to a transfer of power from the governor's office and to the state's legislature. Many of the provisions described in the constitution, especially as relates to budgets, appointments, and the power to make changes in the administration of council of state offices and departments, have been greatly reduced. The legislature currently has super-majorities through gerrymandering of state house and senate seats. No governor of any party can override their decisions, and the legislature can override any vetoes. Budget power for all intents and purposes resides in the legislature.

Thus the core responsibility of the governor's office is to keep the people of the state informed of state affairs and point out discrepancies between gubernatorial recommendations and their intent as contrasted with the actual outcomes of laws created and passed within the general assembly. Insofar as appointments remain possible, the governor's office should strive to appoint qualified people that are non-partisan. The clemency powers of the office should be used to redress wrongs created through flaws in the justice system. At every turn, he governor should remind the people of the imbalance of power created by gerrymandering, loss of appointment authority, and the complete subsumption of budgetary power within the legislature as detrimental to democracy.

What legacy would you like to leave?

Our democratic and economic institutions are no longer sufficient to the purpose of creating a decent life for the public at large. They have been subverted to the service of wealth, not in the sense of sufficiency of housing, health care, and personal satisfaction, but in purchasing power for personal desires. Such wealth cannot accumulate to all. The physical limitations of resources will not allow it. So we allow wealth to accumulate to a privileged few, and justify it be blaming the victims of the system. The bulk of the population fights for survival in an rigged economic system, while governed by politicians in service of the economic system.

I hope that when I leave, the democratic institutions will be more broadly democratic through greater representation of the public, as accomplished by voting reforms, including elimination of the plurality winner-take-all system that lies at the root of much of our democratic failures. We need proportional representation, multi-member districts, ranked choice or other voting systems that create compromise instead of strife, and an electoral system open to all parties and to politically independent candidates.

When I leave, I want to see prison populations reduced to the bare minimum necessary for public safety. an end to policing that puts mentally ill and poor people in prison, and economic conditions that allow people to avoid having to resort to crime to eat or have clothing and shelter. I want an end to the institutional racism built into our justice system and economic system by centuries of discrimination from irrational bigotry and class behavior. There is no meritocracy in the US. Only class warfare and racism explain the outcomes we see today in education, criminal justice.

Finally, I hope to see real discussions about wealth, what it means to be wealthy in a world of billions of people, and why we let personal wealth dictate a person's value and status in society. There can be enough for everybody.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

I remember the assassination of John Kennedy, in 1963 when I was nine years old. I believe I heard it at school and was telling my mother about it in the kitchen of our home.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

My first job was as a stock room boy and janitor at a long-defunct apartment store chain call Arlens in the late 1960s. It lasted for a summer when I was 14. On entering high school I worked part time as a shoe salesman for Thom-McAns for the next three years.

What is your favorite book? Why?

That's a hard question. Books that change my perception of the world, either by revealing some facet of it that I did not previously know or providing a narrative so foreign to what I have previously encountered that by reading it I was forced to engage with modes of thought that set my mind on new paths, have been sources of intellectual stimulation that I consider valuable. Some fiction books. such as Ian Banks' Culture novels, or Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, have made me think about possible futures, or suggested warnings about who we allow power in our lives and in the conduct of world affairs. Others, like Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude challenge us to reconsider time, myth and narrative history in the lives of communities. Non-fiction accounts of past events place new light and perspective on our own history and point the way toward a better understanding of our circumstances. Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was outstanding in this regard, as was Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States. I'm not sure I can pick a favorite. I've read more than I can recall, some for pure fun, usually science fiction, and others for insight into political philosophy such as Roediger's The Sinking Middle Class, C Wright Mills' The Power Elite, and Ralph Milliband's The State in Capitalist Society. In science fiction my favorite authors as a youth were Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven and Isaac Asimov. Later authors included David Brin, N.K. Jesmin and Neil Asher. Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower was thought provoking in terms of what we define as religion and its value in our lives.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series. Endless possibilities and the time to pursue them.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

I can't recall a song getting stuck in my head. Sometimes I will remember a song, based on some observation or memory, and the tune stays at the forefront of my consciousness for a while. But there are so many songs and tunes that could fill this role that it is hard to name a specific one.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

I have had many struggles in my life. Many have had greater struggles, others less. In general, they have left me with insight into issues of class, our corrupting fascination with wealth and how that fascination leads to undeserved contempt for working people, and how society views people that cannot work for one of several reasons.

In short, I learned that our society is unnecessarily and often deliberately cruel in dealing with a wide range of ills. The specifics are unimportant, but the experiences left me with contempt for pretension, bullying, arrogance, and the profession of false concern to hide social indifference. Since these are traits which US society exhibits in remarkable quantities in our social and economic institutions, resisting these behaviors in myself and challenging them in political and economic institutions constitutes my learned behavior from these struggles.

A governor is the top executive authority in his or her state. What does that mean do you?

When most people hear the words "executive" or "authority", they identify it with someone who can command obedience in the name of their office. Such power is usually backed up by the ability of the state to enforce its will through physical suppression of dissent. Ideally, such a position would not even exist, and only the broadly democratic will of the people would make decisions. However, that is not how government is currently organized.

For myself, I would much prefer that any decisions that are made, other than the emergency powers addressed below, are accepted by the people of the state largely by consent before the decision is executed. For administrative decisions that are limited to the efficient and cost-effective operation of the state, it is not practical or expected that wide consultation with the public is required. For decisions involving a budget, and the collection and expenditure of resources, I would only feel comfortable exercising power after a process which had sufficient public input and resultant support. Since in North Carolina, as described previously, the governor is very limited in power to take any meaningful action with regard to collection or expenditure of resources, that possibility of that process will never be offered to the public.

Otherwise, I have no interest in being considered an "executive authority", or in being in a position where I have to exercise power without public consent, excluding emergencies. In emergencies I would have to rely on the mandate of my election as a sign of the peoples' trust that I would act correctly.

Governors have many responsibilities, which vary from state to state. Which of those do you personally consider the most important in your state?

Under the constitutional duties of office, and prior to the usurpation of the powers of the governor by the state legislature. I would have considered the responsibilities of budget creation and administration the most important responsibility. These are the decisions that most impact people's lives, and determine whether we are egalitarian or exclusive, bigoted or non-discriminating, well-educated or narrow-minded and blinkered, and either respectful of the natural world or disdainful of its existence as other than an extractable resource and open sewer for polluters. It is still the responsibility of the office to create an aspirational budget, and I intend to do so in a manner that advances everybody. But as a practical matter, this power is no longer available as a realistic expectation of the office.

In lieu of this ability. the greatest responsibility of the office is to be aware of the conditions that the people of the state experience on a daily basis, and to communicate these conditions to the public and to the legislature. The governor has the ability to ask for information from the various departments and offices of state, and can ask for this information to be delivered in a timely manner. This allows the office to be aware of changes in state administration and in the impact of budgets on decisions and actions at the state level. Budgets have impacts on the local level as well. An accurate and truthful description of the issues facing the state, the impact of budgets on those issues, and whether those impacts are positive or negative for the people, delivered as public information, may be the most effective way left to use the responsibilities of the office in favor of the people.

Different states require governors to have different degrees of responsibility for the state budgeting process. If it were your choice, what do you believe is the appropriate degree of gubernatorial involvement with this process in your state?

The governor's office and the legislature should be equal partners in budget creation. The state constitution specifically says that it is the duty of the governor to create and present to the legislature a budget. Such a document should be supported with clear reasoning behind each categorical expense (i.e., education, health care). The legislature has an interest in having input to the budget as representatives of the various constituencies. The governors office, aside from the legal obligation embodied in the constitution, has an interest in seeing the the people of the state have housing, food, education, living wages, and health care. A system which favors some participants over others will result in an imbalance of representation.

In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?

As previously noted, the governor's office has an interest in the broad welfare of the people. Line items in the budget which appear counter to aspects of the peoples' welfare as measured by housing, healthcare, education and fair wages should have no expectation of safety from veto. Beyond that, line items that are crafted to transfer resources from the state to private individuals or companies deserve scrutiny, and there must be transparently good reasons for such items to survive a veto.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?

Neither branch of government should be disdainful of the other. Both ideally represent the people over narrow interests. Cooperation is better for the people than conflict, as long as such cooperation is in the pursuit of real improvements for the quality of life of the people at large.

What do you love most about your state?

The state's natural environment is the source of all benefits, and also its most attention worthy feature. Endowed with fantastic and varied ecosystems, from coastal waters to temperate plains to mountains, the state's beauty resides in its natural habitats. Where people have been able to avoid overexploitation and can coexist with these environments, it is a source of hope for the future.

What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?

There are many, but I will list just three. First, we have no plan to respond to the challenges of global warming. The state has taken a 'wait and see' attitude, while growing zones shift north, extreme weather threatens coastal development, and changes in ecosystem services threaten clean water and wildlife. We have to start looking at these changes and at all development from the point of view of future generations. This is hard in a capitalist system. because short-term profit is the driver of all capitalist activity. We have to overcome this orientation.

Second. our state population is increasing at a rapid rate, but state services are not funded to keep up. In fact, the path we are on has state services, such as public education, declining in the future in favor of for-profit private education. Nor can we build housing that everybody can afford in any reasonable length of time. The development of high end luxury housing and high-rent apartments is rampant and intrusive. Homelessness and poverty are being kicked down the road for future generations. Volunteer groups substitute for governments disdainful of the poor. Domestic violence shelters and homeless shelters are overwhelmed. But the new residents coming to the state are predisposed to simply displace low-income people, preferably to somewhere out of sight and out of mind. The state seems to agree.

The decline of public education system is remarkable. The state nearly destroyed it completely, then realized it wasn't the right time, and began to refund the schools partially. But along the way it is creating a state-funded parallel educational system of for-profit schools that don't perform any better, but seem to vent the hostility of legislators towards public schools. Emulating Florida or Texas isn't going to help. Along the way, we are reducing the university system to a diploma mill for capitalism. We have to reverse this.

Tell us your favorite joke.

I can't think of one.

Under what circumstances should the governor of your state be able to use emergency powers?

Ideally, a governor should want to use emergency powers in the event of natural disaster, and only under those circumstances. However, we now presented with the spectacle of governor’s using emergency powers and control over their respective state guards to score political points and create instability with political goals in mind. This is presented as a struggle over state’s rights vs federal power, but the motivations for these actions are not rooted in any erudite and informed debate over legal authority. They are simply raw displays of power for personal gain.

Any elected official worthy of the office would recognize this and refuse to use emergency powers for political advantage.

We are also now living in a world where science and public health concerns are not considered important, or even worthy of acknowledgement, by significant portions of the population. A governor cannot afford this ignorance, and must be able to understand the risks to the public in a pandemic or in the appearance of a biological threat where quarantine of individuals and communities is the correct path to follow. Prior to Covid, challenges to the idea of public health came from cranks and fools. Antipathy to public health science and the idea of a common goal have been weaponized as oppression and denied as a possibility, respectively. A new pandemic with greater consequences than Covid is possible, and will present a new challenge for governors who must weigh the consequences in the life of millions against the consequences of using emergency powers.

Presumably, a governor could also be asked to or see a need for invocation of emergency powers in response to military attacks on the US. At that time the state guard could be under the orders of the larger military structure of the US, but in the event that did not happen immediately, the governor’s office could use emergency powers to provide medical aid, transportation services and support displaced persons.

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

None as of yet. I expect the endorsement of the North Carolina Green Party. Very few endorsement opportunities have appeared as of the date of this note.

What are your views on financial transparency and government accountability?

In my opinion, there is never any reason for any government to hide information from its peoples. Secrecy in the service of special interests, state or private, is used to cover questionable deals, rewards to donors, and to hide the impact on the public from proposed policy decisions. Claiming secrecy in service of planning processes or contract negotiations is tantamount to classifying the public as a nuisance in creating public policy for those same people. The harm of concealing information from the public will always outweigh the advantages of secrecy.

Regarding government accountability, accountability for what, and to who? There are laws governing bidding processes, and conflicts of interest. It is not clear to me that they are adequate, and many such conflicts may be hard to identify. We must rely on a free press and on the courage of officials and employees to identify them for the public. If government accountability means redress, financial or otherwise, for government actions that cause harm to individuals or to communities, these issues have typically been addressed through the courts. It is expensive for individuals or small groups of people to undertake these actions. I would prefer to see a state-funded legal agency that could bring reasonable actions against the state without cost where justified. The qualifications for such representation would have to be narrowed to exclude nuisance actions or abuse of the office.

I would prefer to see accountability of elected representatives for violating the trust of voters. To do this, we need to change the way officials are elected. First-past-the-post voting systems should be replaced by ranked choice voting, multimember districts and proportional representation. . Such candidates would have achieved a consensus among voters of being acceptable, if not perfect, and are less likely to ignore their constituency in decisions that directly affect them (which is nearly all decisions).

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Wayne Turner campaign contribution history
Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	Governor of North Carolina	Lost general	$2,285	$1,438
Grand total			$2,285	$1,438
Sources: OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission *This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
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