In 1994,he started his own telecommunications company,The Communications Company,Inc.,[9] providing telecommunications to local businesses. In 2009 he began working in the IT Department at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.[10]
North Carolina House of Representatives
Pridgen is currently serving his first term as Representative for District 46 of North Carolina. In the House of Representatives he is active on seven standing and two House Select committees. Representative Pridgen was appointed to serve as Co-Chair of the House Unemployment Fraud Task Force and the House Select Committee on E-Procurement. The standing committees he serves are Agriculture,the Appropriations and Appropriations on Education,(of which he is Vice-Chair),[5][6] Education,Judiciary and Judiciary B(criminal) subcommittee,and Public Utilities.[8][11][5][3][6][12]
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Pridgen has been the primary sponsor of eleven bills and has co-sponsored twenty-eight other bills,[8] including H475 which authorizes a referendum on whether to make English the official language of North Carolina.[3] He was also a primary sponsor of bill H219 which aimed to keep stricter records of registered sex offenders in the state.[8] Pridgen nominated Dick Taylor to serve on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Taylor was among eight of sixteen nominees approved by the NC House and is now serving on the Board.[4] Pridgen also served as Vice-Chairman of the Appropriations Sub-committee on Education. In this role,he supported a motion that would allow extra tax revenue to help fund the University of North Carolina system schools.
Electoral history
2012
North Carolina House of Representatives 46th district general election,2012[13]
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