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Thearon G. Hooks Jr.

Candidate for Stokesdale Town Council

Occupation: occupational safety and health, medicine

Age: 56

Education: undergraduate and graduate degrees

Address: 8135 Shoeline Road., Stokesdale

Previous elective experience: ran for council two times

Other relevant experience: chair- Stokesdale Public Safety Committee, Long Range Financial Planning Committee, Vice Chair Animal Shelter Advisory Board, Past member Guilford County Local Emergency Planning Committee

Why have you chosen to run for this office? To address the needs of the citizens of Stokesdale

Key qualifications you would bring tot he job: adult life of public service both in the government and the private sector

Family: married with six children

What distinguishes you most from your opponents? Experience.

Please list the top three issues in Stokesdale and your stances on those issues:

1. Town hall only if affordable.
2. Taxes: Will not vote for them.
3. Liquor by the drink/ABC store: Don’t think we need it.

If you were to give Stokesdale a letter grade on its effectiveness in managing growth, what would it be? B+

What vote of the current council would you overturn and why? I would have recommended that a petition be signed by enough people to get on ballot. I would have left liquor by the drink/ABC stores.