Democratic Senate candidate Marcus Williams in his own words

Create a more robust, job producing economy, with an emphasis on targeted pools of venture capital, grants and low interest loans for the initiation and/or expansion of small businesses. This is an immediate necessity. For the longer term, it is imperative for us to balance the federal budget and commence the process of diminishing the monstrous federal deficit. A second component of this priority is to attract high wage and high skill jobs in North Carolina. Working with State and Local officials, we would collaborate to identify clean industries to inveigle into our State. Third, we must inspire all unemployed citizens to examine the range of options for retraining or reinventing themselves to enable them to take advantage of the new green economy and other emerging job opportunities.

See answer to Question 1.

I am probably the most fiscally frugal of all of the candidates. We, as a nation, must learn how to do more with less of the taxpayer's hard earned dollar by immediately scrubbing every budget item to examine and identify opportunities to reduce discretionary and annualized spending and simultaneously undertake efforts to attack that monstrous federal deficit. My proven record of balancing budgets and supervising staffs demonstrates the acumen to adroitly engage in this process.