Joe L. Kiser is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's ninety-seventh House district, including constituents in Lincoln County.
Kiser served a term as sheriff of Lincoln County before being elected to the legislature. He lives in Vale, North Carolina. Kiser is currently (2007-2008 session) serving in his seventh term in the state House and is the former House Republican Leader. He is not running for re-election in 2008.
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“This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper’s axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, “By George, I’ll bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that.” These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)