FAMILY, FAITH & FREEDOM.

DEANNA BALLARD:

Raised to Work Hard, Respect the Classroom, & Trust God.

During COVID, Sen. Deanna Ballard led the charge to reopen public schools, recognizing the disaster that awaited the state and country from the awful decision to keep kids away from the classroom. She went toe-to-toe with Gov. Roy Cooper, former Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, and the teachers’ union, forcing their hand by passing landmark legislation ordering the schools reopened.

Sen. Deanna Ballard grew up in Lincoln County, the middle daughter of a school teacher and a logger. 

Her parents worked six jobs at times to help support the family. Deanna remembers her father’s hour-plus commutes to a logging job far from home, and the uncertainty when Dad was laid off at the Bowater paper mill. 

Because of her parents’ work and devotion to their kids, Deanna was the first person in her family to graduate from a four-year college. She’s stayed true to that scrappy, blue-collar ethic her whole life. 

The family’s strong Christian faith rooted in Biblical values further strengthened her call to trust and obey God in all circumstances. Having been active in church throughout her life attending youth camps, leading worship or Bible study and traveling on mission trips, she believes service is an act of faith – hearing, believing, and obeying are critical to building up others and speaking truth even when it’s not easy.

At a low-wage event-planning job in Charlotte shortly after college, Deanna met a Republican campaign organizer and got involved in politics as a volunteer. She’s worked on the frontlines with the hardworking, unappreciated grassroots volunteers that are the backbone of every successful campaign. 

To help make a difference for the conservative values she learned at home, Deanna accepted a role traveling the country helping Republicans with historic success in the 2002 election. That experience and the grace of God led to public service with the U.S. Secretary of Education, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, and then President George W. Bush and First Lady Mrs. Laura Bush, where Deanna was recognized as a White House commissioned officer.

In 2009, Deanna started working with the Rev. Franklin Graham and family at Billy Graham’s ministry in Charlotte, and Samaritan’s Purse, in Boone. She helped expand the organization’s charitable work to needy families across the globe, including North Carolina’s own people devastated by natural disasters.

In 2016, she ran for office for the first time to make sure the resilient people of Western North Carolina had a strong conservative voice in Raleigh. In the North Carolina Senate, Sen. Ballard focused relentlessly on empowering parents in their children’s schooling, just as her parents empowered her. 

She worked closely with Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on his task force uncovering political indoctrination in public schools and fought to focus all levels of education on the skills needed to thrive in the workforce.

Deanna Ballard is a family-first conservative. She’s running for Lieutenant Governor because our financial security and constitutional freedoms are in jeopardy. She’s dedicated her life to fighting for our children and serving working families – the backbone of North Carolina. They’ve been stretched thin by inflation, looked down upon by elites, and told their way of thinking and worshipping is no longer mainstream. Enough is enough.

ON THE ISSUES

Deanna has fought tirelessly for North Carolina families - and isn’t stopping now.

  • Sen. Ballard focused relentlessly in the Senate on empowering parents in their children’s schooling and stopping the woke agenda. As chair of the Senate Education Committee, she helped write the Parents’ Bill of Rights, which will soon become law.

    Sen. Ballard worked closely with Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on his task force uncovering political indoctrination in public schools. Like Lt. Gov. Robinson, Sen. Ballard believes schools should focus on reading, writing, and math, NOT political indoctrination.

    Sen. Ballard passed multiple bills championing charter schools and the state’s Opportunity Scholarship program, which offers funding to children whose needs are best met at a private school.

    During COVID, Sen. Ballard led the charge to reopen public schools, recognizing the disaster that awaited the state and country from the awful decision to keep kids away from the classroom.

    She went toe-to-toe with Gov. Roy Cooper, former Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, and the teachers’ union, forcing their hand by passing landmark legislation ordering the schools reopened.

  • When she was just a kid, Sen. Ballard’s father lost his job at Bowater Paper Mill. The family struggled to make ends meet, and at certain times her parents worked six jobs between the two of them.

    But they didn’t look to government for a handout. They did what we as Americans and North Carolinians do best: They fought through it and persevered.

    Sen. Ballard has long championed economic policies that focus on skills training and don’t center on a college education. Too many students take on crushing student loan debt – and for what? Often, a job that pays less than “blue collar” work.

    In the state legislature, Sen. Ballard LOWERED taxes on families and businesses. She passed bills expanding career and technical training, so students don’t need to take on debt at woke universities for a path to decent, good-paying jobs.

    Above all, she focused relentlessly on small business job creation to unleash the American Dream for anyone who’s willing to work hard.

  • Our state and country have been subject to a radical agenda in just the past few years that tries to strip us of our core values.

    Deanna believes:

    • The police need to be DEFENDED, not defunded.

    • Illegal immigrants need to be deported, not protected in sanctuary cities.

    • We all have a right to gun ownership and to defend ourselves and our families.

    • Biological males should NOT be competing against women in sports.

    • Every unborn life is precious and deserves protection.

    As Lt. Governor, Deanna Ballard will UPHOLD these values, no matter the opposition.

  • The sanctity of the ballot box is the bedrock of self-government. That’s why Sen. Ballard helped lead the effort to finally make photo voter ID a reality in North Carolina. In 2018, she supported a state constitutional amendment to require voter ID, and North Carolinians overwhelmingly voted to adopt that amendment.

    For the next several years, liberal activists used the court system to halt voter ID’s implementation, but that finally came to an end this year. In 2024, in part because of Sen. Ballard, North Carolina will finally have a voter ID requirement at the polls.

    As Lt. Governor, Deanna will fight for election integrity efforts that eliminate voter fraud and ensure one person, one vote.

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  • "I first met Sen. Ballard in 2021. I was a concerned mom uninvolved in politics but watching in real time the disastrous impact that school closures had on my kids. We spoke nearly every day over the succeeding months as she formed a coalition to reopen the schools. Sen. Ballard fought on behalf of my kids relentlessly, and she won."

    Kelly Mann, a Wake County mom who partnered with Sen. Ballard in the school reopening fight

  • “I didn't live in Sen. Ballard's district when I reached out to her desperately looking for someone who cared about what was happening to our kids. She responded because she cared. She earned my deepest respect, and I will be forever grateful to her for getting our kids back into school. Sen. Ballard gave me hope and a voice when we had none.”

    Christine Hanks, a Carteret County mom

Raised to Work Hard, Respect the Classroom, Trust God.