Vaughan to run for Senate seat
GREENSBORO -- Former Greensboro City Council member Don Vaughan said Wednesday that he has filed paperwork to run for state Sen. Kay Hagan's seat in 2008.
Vaughan, a Democrat, served on City Council from 1991-2005, when he lost a reelection bid. He is a Greensboro native and has practiced law here for more than 25 years. Vaughan currently serves on the State Banking Commission.
"I have the desire for public service in Raleigh and to serve Greensboro again," Vaughan said. "I feel I can do our community a great deal of good in the N.C. General Assembly."
Vaughan has had a small lobbying practice but said he has only one bill pending before the legislature right now. He would have to give up lobbying, obviously, should he become a member.
He lost a close election in 1996 for the Senate seat that Hagan won in 1998. Hagan is leaving her N.C. Senate District 27 seat to run for U.S. Senate.
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