Morehead-Cain election roundup: Ricky Hurtado ’11 elected to NC House of Representatives as only Latino to serve in state legislature, other victories across the state

We’re sharing a brief roundup from the 2020 General Election on November 3. We had a number of Morehead-Cain Alumni running for office; here’s how their races turned out. Ricky Hurtado ’11 was elected to North Carolina’s House of Representatives. The alumnus will represent District 63 in Raleigh. The Representative-elect will be the only Latino to serve in the current state legislature, according to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. Ricky is the co-executive director and co-founder of LatinxEd, an educational initiative that provides multi-year support to Latinx students and immigrant families seeking access to higher education in North Carolina. The alumnus is also an adjunct instructor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Education.Roy Cooper ’79 was reelected against his Republican challenger, Dan Forest, the state’s lieutenant governor.David Price ’61 was reelected to the U.S. House to represent North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District.Kristin Dutrow Baker ’85 of Concord secured her seat as a representative in North Carolina’s House of Representatives for District 82. This November’s election was the alumna’s first race for office.In other states, Jim Cooper ’75 was reelected to the U.S. House to represent Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District. The alumnus has served Davidson County since January 2003.In Kentucky, Doug Farnsley '73 was elected to the city council in Prospect.Tom Ciszek ’03 was one of 21 candidates for the Santa Monica City Council in California.Wayne Goodwin ’89 of Raleigh sought a third term for North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance (Wayne was defeated by incumbent Mike Causey).That’s it for our Morehead-Cain election roundup. We’ll be back on Tuesday, November 10, for our last episode of the season featuring Tom Thriveni ’10, a staff writer for The Late Late Show on CBS, and Lauren Gornto ’21. Special thanks to Nicholas Byrne ’19 for contributing music for this episode. Listen to the full song, “Loosen Up” on Spotify. On your mobile device, you can listen and subscribe to Catalyze on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. For any other podcast app, you can find the show using our RSS feed.Catalyze is hosted and produced by Sarah O’Carroll for the Morehead-Cain Foundation, home of the first merit scholarship program in the United States and located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can let us know what you thought of the episode by finding us on Twitter or Instagram at @moreheadcain or you can email us at [email protected]: Representative-elect Ricky Hurtado ’11. Photo created and copyright owned by Andie Rea (permission to publish granted by photographer).