Meet Colby Watson · Congress NC-08

From here. For here.

One of us.

Colby Watson was born and raised in Union County. He didn't inherit a fortune or a famous last name. He started with a trowel, a pickup truck, and a willingness to outwork anyone, and built a small business with his own two hands.

Along the way he learned what politicians in Washington seem to have forgotten: that hard work should pay off, that a handshake still means something, and that the people who build this country deserve a government that works as hard as they do.

He's done the work

I build things.

Before Colby ever thought about running for Congress, he was out on the job site before sunrise, laying brick, running a crew, and signing the front of a paycheck instead of just the back of one.

Running a construction company means you feel every price increase personally: materials, gas, health care for the people who work for you. It also means you've lived the government red tape firsthand: the permits, the inspectors, the costs Washington piles on people who build things. It's why Colby understands the squeeze families across NC-08 are feeling, and why he trusts the people who build things over the insiders who profit when we don't.

Why he's running

You deserve someone who fights for you.

We used to be a country that built homes families could afford and a life you could get ahead in. Washington and Wall Street made building too expensive, then figured out how to profit from the shortage. Colby watched his own congressman, Mark Harris, take money from Blackstone while Wall Street bought up North Carolina homes, vote to cut Medicaid, and put the insiders ahead of the folks back home. (Harris's own 2018 election was thrown out 5-0 for ballot fraud.)

Colby isn't running to climb a career ladder. He's running to be a builder in Congress: to cut the red tape that blocks new homes, bring costs down, and break with his own party when it's wrong. He'll vote to ban members of Congress from trading stocks, even when leaders of both parties don't want him to.

Family & roots

NC-08 is home.

Colby Watson with his family in North Carolina

Colby and his family are proud to call NC-08 home. His own parents homeschooled him, so he learned early how much a child's future depends on parents being at the table. Today he's raising his own kids in the same community he grew up in. He's not a politician; he's a normal guy who still shows up on the job site and sweats the same bills you do, running so the next generation has the same shot at the American Dream that he did.

Independent by nature

He answers to you.

Colby will judge every bill by one question: is it good for the families of NC-08? He'll work with anyone who is, and stand up to anyone, in either party, who isn't. He's already said he'll break with his own party's leadership to ban congressional stock trading and cut the red tape that keeps us from building homes.

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