To the Editor:

The Senate race in North Carolina is the most important election in our state this year. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., has been and will continue to be a rubber stamp senator for President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid 96 percent of the time if she is elected. More than $20 million has been poured into our state from outside to get her elected. We have a senator who represents an unpopular president more often than she does the people in her state? The senator we elect is suppose to represent us, not the president.  

N.C. Rep. Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, has helped Gov. Pat McCrory get North Carolina’s unemployment rate down to 6.9 percent. Our state’s tax rates were among the highest in the South. Tillis and McCrory changed that. Without the Reid/Obama campaign money this Senate race would not be close.  

Any person who is unemployed should vote for Tillis. He has played a big part in reducing the unemployment rate in North Carolina from 9.8 percent to 6.9 percent. We need two senators who will represent the people in North Carolina, not just one. It should not be a tough choice to decide who the other senator should be.

Jim Mueller

Glenville