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- ↑ Triangle Business Journal:Conservative legislator pulls shocker, becomes Democrat
- ↑ "U.S. Attorney's Office - U.S. Department of Justice". www.justice.gov. U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO).
- ↑ | August 28, 2007 | Interview: Decker Discusses His Fall | Don Carrington |
- ↑ "Speaker Jim Black and Michael Decker Top List of Legislators" (PDF). democracync.org. December 5, 2005. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
- ↑ North Carolina State Board of Elections.
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- ↑ "NC State House 084". Our Campaigns. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
