Vivian Fulk NC House District 91 Candidate
Cutting a Rug
Newsletter 1 December 5, 2023
Vivian Fulk NC House District 91 Democratic Candidate - Donate to my campaign!
It’s official. I just filed to run for office with the Stokes County Board of Elections!
My name is Vivian Fulk, and I am running for NC House as the former Democratic Party Chair for Stokes County. I was violently attacked on election day 2014 and stood my ground. I’m still standing and will stand for you too!
I moved to King at twenty-one and worked at The Hastings Company as Assistant Plant Engineer. At 64, I am a retired Industrial Engineer and Computer Systems Analyst. My husband and I own a fourth-generation small farm on Goff Road. Taking care of each other makes our community stronger and it’s my version of the pursuit of happiness.
It’s time we gave our students and teachers the respect they deserve! It’s a constitutional responsibility to provide an education. Money for public schools should be first not charter schools.
And it’s time we guarantee reproductive freedom: not only as a woman’s right to choose, but as her right to choose freely, without obstructions from her legislatures in Raleigh.
Now if you believe that it’s time to take back the General Assembly, then I want you to stand with me now!
Stand up now, go ahead, and use those fingers to text your friends and say: Vote for Viv! And I want you to make a fist to knock on doors. Stand up and wave BYE-BYE to the GOP majority in Raleigh!
Vote Viv! I’m STANDING UP for you. Thank you for your support. Let's stand up for our rights!
A Stokes County Origin Story
I first met Leomia and Hestella, when Randy Fulk’s aunts in 1982 at the family season harvest celebrating the end of tobacco priming at one their 8 tobacco barns. They were clogging on a sand strewn piece of plywood “cutting a rug”. I learned all kinds of dances for my PE class at East Tennessee State University so therefore I had to get them to teach me this dance! They were patient with me as was the rest of the family teaching this “city slicker”. I worked at The Hastings Company with others in Randy’s family. I was a curiosity, I’m sure. Leomia was tiny but so full of life at the age of 61 in 1982.
The following year Randy and I were married and put a trailer adjacent to that very same tobacco barn. Leomia’s trailer was 500 yards away on the same dirt road. She walked past our trailer every day to trek around a 5-acre field using a long walking stick. She had worn a path around that field. She was a new widow with her husband passing just a few years earlier.
Randy and I moved away but came back to the farm in 1995. By then at 74, Leomia was in a nursing home. We lived in her trailer while our house was being built. She passed away shortly after we moved into our home.
Today at 64 myself, I walk that same field she walked. I dreamt of Leomia recently. I’m asking her to help me persevere in my walking our labyrinth installed in the center of that very same former tobacco field she once walked and worked in as a child. And honoring both Hestella and Leomia with this short story. “Cut a rug” sweet sisters.
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