William M. Brawley

Brawley voted for the 2017 budget that kept teacher pay at $35,000.[2][3] Brawley also voted for the 2016 budget that provided tax cuts to corporations over education funding.[4]

Brawley supported a controversial plan that would add toll lanes to I-77 in Charlotte, NC. .[5][6][7] In 2015, Brawley voted for a bill that will add toll lanes to I-485 and US 74 by 2019.[8]

In 2015, Brawley voted for a bill that would block the Medicaid expansion.[9] The Medicaid expansion would provide healthcare for 500,000 low-income North Carolinians.[10]

Brawley sponsored a bill that would make it more difficult for towns to inspect residential properties for unsafe conditions.[11][12]

In 2017, Brawley sponsored a bill that would establish a committee to analyze the impact of breaking up large school districts.[13] The committee found that breaking up the district would cause resegregation, disrupt bus routes, and cause legal issues.[14][15] In 2018, Brawley voted for a bill that would create allow four majority-white suburban towns in Charlotte to create their own charter schools.[16][17] This bill was criticized by the North Carolina NAACP President, Anthony Spearman, saying this was an attempt to create "Jim Crow independent school districts".[18]

Brawley voted for a bill that would allow landfill operators to spray landfill fluids, called leachate, into the air.[19][20] In 2014, Brawley voted for a bill that would allow Duke Energy to clean up their coal ash spill.[21] In 2017, Brawley voted to cut funding from the NC Department of Environmental Quality, days after the GenX story broke.[22][23]

Brawley was defeated for re-election in 2018 by Democrat Rachel Hunt.[24]