First thing is to get some needed sleep.
Then John Bridgeman, the newly elected Democrat in the N.C. House District 76 seat, will work at getting his bearings for the job he's taken on to represent portions of Gaston and Mecklenburg counties in Raleigh. On Friday afternoon, the results of Gaston County's election showed the Gastonia businessman received 53 percent of the vote over McHenry's 47 percent. In Mecklenburg County, Bridgeman won by 54 votes. Bridgeman said after he and a crowd of people had watched the results on a screen in the county courthouse. He will join a legislature in which Democrats are in the majority.