Jim Hunt

How much was it for? Yeah, we don't have that information.

On November 28th, 1983, North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt announced that the state was offering rewards for information leading to the arrests of those responsible for the murder of 59-year-old Clarence David Jay, who was shot during a robbery on Halloween of that year, and the disappearance of Polly Melt.

Polly was declared legally dead in 1988.

Her father, Fred, died in December 1990 at the age of 98, but he never gave up hope she might be found, and he never allowed a memorial service.

I mean, I had to sue my own Republican legislature trying to take power away from me.

By the way, the Democrats did the same thing to Jim Hunt.

The Democrats did to Jim Martin.

And they're doing it now to Governor Stein.

It just doesn't make any difference.

It's a sad reality.

I've been to Jim Hunt's funeral recently, and Governor Holzhauer.

Everyone's planning lunch the next day.

So when I was in North Carolina, that was in the early 80s.

The governor there was Jim Hunt.

And he served two terms.

And then I left, and there was another governor.

I can't even tell you what his name was.

But then Jim Hunt came back and ran again and won.

So is it that they should just serve two terms, or should they serve because they know what they're doing and they're good at what they did?

And the people want to reelect them.

[audience applauding] Second, second, all states and school districts must turn around their worst performing schools or shut them down.

That- [audience applauding] That's the polies-- policy established in North Carolina by Governor Jim Hunt.

North Carolina made the biggest gains in test scores in the nation last year.

Our budget includes two hundred million dollars to help states turn around their own failing schools.

You're on the air.

Hey, Bill.

It's Jim Taylor over in Kentucky.

How you doing tonight?

But he was on the justice.

And one of Jim Hunt's head of the Department of Public Safety.

Carlton, Phil Carlton.

Yeah, that's right.

There was this continued effort to like, how do we, improve upon what we have? How do we make ourselves more attractive to new tech companies? And so by the 1980s, you know, we went into a pretty severe recession in the early 1980s.

We had a new governor at that time, Governor Jim Hunt, who very much followed in the footsteps of Hodges and Sanford as an activist, pro-economy, like economic development, making North Carolina attractive to outside companies.

And he put together a task force to look at both biotechnology and microelectronics.

And biotech at that time, hard to remember, 1980, I mean, you know, it was like the first IPO, one of the first, you know, Nobel Prize is awarded for gene sequencing.

So he was excited about that opportunity.

And his way of doing that was to go.

He met with Jim Hunt and Jim Hunt said, what do you need? He said, I need seventy five million dollars to hire to bring the best labs in the world to RTP.

And he called him back like a week later and said, OK, I got your 40 million dollars.