Purple Ballot: Representative Ashton Clemmons on leaving the NC General Assembly

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Purple Ballot: Representative Ashton Clemmons on leaving the NC General Assembly

By Jeff Tiberii

Published July 30, 2024 at 10:20 AM EDT

Rep. Clemmons debates the state budget bill.

State Representative Ashton Wheeler Clemmons (D-Guilford) recently announced her resignation from the General Assembly and will take a position as the UNC system associate vice president for strategy and policy on education from preschool through high school.

Clemmons talks with co-host Jeff Tiberii about her three terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives, her decision to leave the GA, and reforms she believes would make the legislature more representative of the people it serves.

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Representative Ashton Wheeler Clemmons (D-Guilford)

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Jeff Tiberii

Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of 瓜神app's "Due South." Jeff joined 瓜神app in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and 瓜神app鈥檚 Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary 鈥淩ight Turn,鈥� launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.

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