1205 Col. Morris Davis and Kate Barr (Can't win) + News and Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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I'm Moe Davis. I was born and raised in Shelby, North Carolina. We had a farm in Rutherford County where my dad grew up where we had horses and black angus cows. I graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in criminal justice and I worked in law enforcement training at the North Carolina Department of Justice before I went to law school at North Carolina Central University. I've been a member of the North Carolina Bar since 1983, which is the same year I joined the Air Force. While in the Air Force, I earned a Master of Laws in government procurement law from the George Washington University School of Law and a Master of Laws in military law from the U.S. Army JAG School.
I'm best known for having served as the Chief Prosecutor for the terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After serving in that role for two years, I resigned when I was ordered to use evidence that was obtained by torture. Later, I was head of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division at the Congressional Research Service; a law professor at the Howard University School of Law; and an administrative law judge at the U.S. Department of Labor. I've written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and I've appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News and NPR.
I retired in 2019 and moved back home to western North Carolina. I was the Democratic Party nominee for the NC 11 congressional seat in 2020. My wife and I have a rescue cat named Mika and a rescue dog named Maggie.
Built to lose.
I've been training to lose this Senate race for all of my life.
I voted for Al Gore in 2000, cheered for Carolina basketball during the Matt Doherty era, and watch the Carolina Panthers on Sundays (shudder).
It's the thrill of a lifetime to give voters in District 37 the opportunity to choose their next representative. I'm going to lose, but we'll have some fun, make some noise, and raise some hell on the way down.
My platform
- Abortion is healthcare.
- We must fully fund public education.
- We need common sense gun laws to keep our communities safe.
And all of those would be achievable in our purple state if we had a representative democracy instead of this gerrymandered nonsense.
When I'm not losing
Family
I'm mom to Winnie (7) and Max (6) and wife to Dan.
Community
• Davidson Town Planning Board Member
• Davidson K-8 PTO President
• Volunteer for the Davidson Housing Coalition
• Past President of the Davidson-Cornelius Child Development Center
• Past Member of the Davidson Mobility Committee
• Past Member of the Davidson Sustainability Committee
Science
I'm a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the University of Michigan's Center for Academic Innovation. My job is to use technology and behavior change theory to help college students succeed.
Entrepreneurship
Prior to my work at UM, I was Founder and CEO of pip & grow, a baby box company. During our seven years in business, we received national awards (including SCORE small business of the year), were featured in Forbes and MSN, and I was named to the inaugural Forbes Next 1000 list. I left the company in September 2021 in the hope of finding better work-life balance. (Spoiler: I was not successful
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends thank you very much for pressing play because I've got a great |
| 0:06.2 | North Carolina show for you today first I'm going to be talking with Mo Davis in |
| 0:11.1 | the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, how he's dealing in Asheville, North Carolina, |
| 0:15.6 | where he lives with his wife. |
| 0:17.4 | Then I've got Kate Barr, who is running for North Carolina Senate, but she can't win. |
| 0:22.2 | Katebar can't win. KateBar can't win. |
| 0:23.7 | Come is her website because her district is so gerrymander |
| 0:27.7 | she doesn't have a chance. |
| 0:28.8 | Kate Barr is really impressive, have a great conversation with her and then their own France pants. |
| 0:34.4 | Francis Christian also lives in Asheville. |
| 0:36.0 | She joined us for the debate watch party on Thursday night and talked to us about her experience |
| 0:40.7 | in the hurricane and the aftermath of it. |
| 0:43.6 | So Mo Davis, Kate Barr and France Pants all join me on today's show. |
| 0:48.6 | Plus, I've got your headlines and your news clips. |
| 0:52.3 | My conversation with Mo begins at 25 minutes. |
| 0:56.4 | But right now I've got your headlines and clips. |
| 0:58.9 | Oh, and let me just start with this email from our good friend |
| 1:01.4 | Carlo up there in Canada who says, Pete, I didn't listen |
| 1:05.1 | to any of the podcasts when I was in San Francisco for 18 days. I typically listen to the car, |
| 1:09.3 | while in the car, mowing the lawn, or using the snow blower, so none of these were happening while I was away. |
| 1:14.1 | So I had a lot of catching up to do. |
| 1:15.4 | I was very pleased but not surprised to see that the interviews were still relevant and well worth |
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