Keadle aims for Congress

Iredell County Commissioner Scott Keadle is running for the U.S. Congress.

In an interview with the R&L, Keadle, a Republican, said he will run for the 10th District seat.

To do that, however, he will likely have to get past three-term incumbent Rep. Patrick McHenry in a GOP primary next spring.

"I'm running because I feel like our country is on the wrong track," Keadle said. "And I've got the capability and the will to help put it back on the right track."

Keadle is no stranger to tough primaries.

In 1998, he beat out some heavy hitters — including Mecklenburg County Commission Chairman Tom Bush and former Rowan County Board of Commissioners Chairman Jim Cohen — in a Republican primary for the 12th Congressional District seat.

Keadle — a dentist with a practice in Salisbury — would later lose that general election race to Rep. Mel Watt, a Democrat who has held the 12th District seat since it was re-established in 1992.

In 2000, Keadle won a GOP primary in a run he made for a seat in the North Carolina Senate.

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