Antoine Marshall
Antoine G. Marshall (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent District 33. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 5, 2024.
Marshall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Antoine Marshall was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He earned an undergraduate degree from Claflin University in 2009 and a law degree from the Wake Forest School of Law in 2012.
Marshall's career experience includes working as an attorney, as a legislative assistant with the North Carolina State Senate, as an assistant Sergeant at Arms with the North Carolina General Assembly, interning with the South Carolina Congressional Black Caucus, and owning his law firm. He also worked in the congressional offices of James Clyburn and Donna Christensen. He has been affiliated with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and the North Carolina State Bar.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33
Monika Johnson-Hostler and Chris Costello are running in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33 on November 5, 2024.
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 | Chris Costello (L) | |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33
Monika Johnson-Hostler defeated Antoine G. Marshall and Debra Dunston in the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Monika Johnson-Hostler | 62.8 | 2,367 |
 | Antoine G. Marshall | 21.9 | 826 | |
 | Debra Dunston | 15.3 | 576 | |
| Total votes: 3,769 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Chris Costello advanced from the Libertarian primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2020
See also: North Carolina House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33
Incumbent Rosa Gill defeated Frann Sarpolus and Sammie Brooks in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Rosa Gill (D) | 70.8 | 33,194 |
 | Frann Sarpolus (R) | 24.9 | 11,659 | |
| Sammie Brooks (L) | 4.4 | 2,057 | |
| Total votes: 46,910 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33
Incumbent Rosa Gill defeated Antoine G. Marshall in the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rosa Gill | 66.1 | 10,028 |
| Antoine G. Marshall | 33.9 | 5,150 | |
| Total votes: 15,178 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Frann Sarpolus advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33.
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Sammie Brooks advanced from the Libertarian primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33.
Campaign finance
2018
General election
General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33
Incumbent Rosa Gill defeated Anne Murtha in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rosa Gill (D) | 78.7 | 23,900 |
 | Anne Murtha (R) | 21.3 | 6,468 | |
| Total votes: 30,368 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33
Incumbent Rosa Gill defeated Antoine G. Marshall and Shirley Hicks in the Democratic primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rosa Gill | 60.2 | 3,514 |
| Antoine G. Marshall | 24.7 | 1,442 | |
 | Shirley Hicks | 15.1 | 879 | |
| Total votes: 5,835 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33
Anne Murtha advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina House of Representatives District 33 on May 8, 2018.
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Antoine G. Marshall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Marshall's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Antoine Marshall has called Raleigh home for over 25 years. Proud to be a graduate of Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, Antoine was awarded the Presidential Scholarship to Claflin University. There he had his first exposure to politics working in the Congressional Offices of Congressman James Clyburn and Congresswoman Donna Christensen. After earning his Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and a minor in Biotechnology he obtained his Juris Doctor from Wake Forest School of Law.
With his law degree in hand, Antoine became a North Carolina licensed attorney in 2012. He began his career as a Sergeant-at-Arms for the NC General Assembly before serving as a Staff Attorney for Legal Aid of North Carolina focusing on foreclosure prevention before transitioning to become a Community Economic Development Attorney, focusing on affordable housing issues. Currently, he operates his own practice.
Antoine's commitment to his community is unparalleled. Antoine is a founding member of the Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School Alumni Association and serves on the board of the Southeast Raleigh Community Development Corporation.
Politically, Antoine has worked with Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. He was recognized in 2019 by the Wake County Democratic Party as one of its Rising Stars.
Outside of law and politics, Antoine is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, competes in bodybuilding competitions, and a three time girl dad.
- Antoine Marshall is a proud resident of Raleigh for over 25 years, reflecting a deep connection to the community. That dedication is showcased through his involvement with the Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School Alumni Association, and the Southeast Raleigh Community Development Corporation.
- With his educational background; a law degree from Wake Forest School of Law, experience in two Congressional offices and working within the NC General Assembly, Antoine has a deep understanding of policy and how sound policy impacts communities.
- Antoine's work history demonstrates an understanding of key issues within the district. Affordable Housing in a rapidly gentrifying community and community economic development in an area with higher poverty than the surrounding area, Antoine has key understanding on how to address pressing issues in the community.
Affordable Housing is the cornerstone of vibrant communities and economic stability. It is not just about providing shelter; it's an investment in the well-being of individuals and families. It is a fundamental right and a strategic imperative for building a prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable future for all.
Access to justice ensures that individuals, regardless of their socio-economic status, have a fair and equal opportunity to seek justice and protect their rights. Most are aware of the Sixth Amendment protection that you have a right to an attorney, but few make the distinction that is only for criminal law. The majority of civil cases that impact housing, custody, and personal safety have no legal counsel. There is only 1 Legal Aid Attorney for every 8,000 low income North Carolinians who qualify for Legal Aid service. By prioritizing and enhancing access to legal representation, we empower citizens to navigate complex legal processes, promoting fairness and preventing injustice.
Living wages are not just a matter of smart economic policy; they represent a commitment to the dignity and well-being of every worker. Our campaign is dedicated to creating policy that establishes a fair compensation structure that ensures every individual earns enough to meet basic needs, support their families, and participate fully in the community.
I have a number of individuals I look up to for a variety of reasons. Charles Hamilton Houston created the legal strategy behind the civil rights movement and trained the generation of attorneys who brought down Jim Crow. Paul Robeson for the range of his accomplishments in art, music, sports and activism. He serves as a model to me that my interests can be diverse and I can achieve success in them all. My father for his work ethic, integrity, and commitment to family.
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Kerner Commission Report
Integrity, compassion, empathy, leadership, and intellectual curiosity.
Intellectual curiosity, integrity, honesty.
My responsibilities are to represent the constituents within the district. That means looking for and considering policy that would improve their lives. Finding funding and opportunities to direct to the benefit of those living in the district.
If there is child who grows up in the district that has an opportunity they would not have had if not for a program implemented or position I advocated for.
I was 13 years old when the September 11th tragedy occurred.
After graduating from law school I served as a Sergeant at Arms for the North Carolina General Assembly. I served in that role for roughly a year before moving on to Legal Aid of NC.
1984. It serves as a powerful warning against the dangers of totalitarianism and the abuse of power by a centralized government.
Love Nwantiti by CKay
I think the ideal relationship is based on the who the two sides represent. The Governor is elected statewide and speaks for every citizen within the state. The State Legislature is elected by their individual districts. In an ideal ungerrymandered world these districts would be compacted districts of like-minded communities/voters, and their needs might be more specific or differ from the goals of the entire state.
It is up to the members of the legislature to represent the needs of their specific district and the governor to represent the needs of the state as a whole and find compromise in the manner of doing so.
There is a troubling trend occurring now in which the North Carolina Legislature are trying to seize power from the govern for themselves. This weakens a necessary balance of power needed for sound governance.
The undemocratic activities of gerrymandering, power grabs by the legislature, and hyper-partisanship.
Beyond that North Carolina is a rapidly growing state and housing is a major need in many of the large counties.
Protecting our natural resources, North Carolina is one of few states that has mountains and beaches both of whom are prone to degradation due to the impact of climate change.
I believe that serving in public office is like any other job, prior experience and training will make one a better candidate. I think previous experience would be beneficial in understanding how to work with constituents, understanding the relationship between policy makers and policy implementers, and limitations of the office.
I do believe that it is beneficial to build relationships with other legislators. While the soundness of the policy should be the overwhelming factor in a legislator deciding whether to support a policy, having a relationship with other legislators makes it easier to work with them on compromises or anticipate objections.
Rick Glazier
My goal is to pass sound policy that benefits my community. If I feel like I can have a bigger impact in another office to accomplish those goals, I will consider doing so.
I have several stories of my clients that I worked with from Legal Aid in how certain laws and policies worked against them. The most touching one for me was within my first month working at Legal Aid. I was in the Mortgage Foreclosure Protection Division, and my job was to assist clients who were facing foreclosure on ways to avoid them. One of the clients who called in was in her 80s. Her husband had passed away maybe a decade prior and her son had died unexpectedly a couple of years prior.
I exhausted every option to see if there was a way to keep her home, but her income consistent of her husband's Social Security benefits, was insufficient for any option to work. She was going to lose her house and there was nothing I could do to stop it. And as I was breaking the news to her, she accepted the information, and to my surprise she asked if she could pray for me and my career (knowing I was a new attorney).
A legislative body is by design is supposed to be a deliberative, slow moving body. In an emergency you want immediate and fast response. For that reason granting of emergency powers is best left in the hands of the Executive.
Compromise is desirable and collaboration with several individuals and groups with different thought processes, backgrounds and experiences can ensure that you're not overlooking blind spots created by limitations in your own experience.
But the most important part is the soundness of the policy. Policy that solves a problem with strong disagreement is more desirable than policy that everyone agrees on but doesn't solve the problem.
A program targeted to teachers and law enforcement for down payment assistance. North Carolina like most states is struggling to recruit and maintain teachers and law enforcement officers. Part of the reason is the pay offered for these positions. My proposal is a program offering 5%-15% down payment assistance for individuals in qualifying positions. This assistance shows up in the form of a second mortgage on the property that is not required to be paid on until the original mortgage is paid off or they no longer work in the qualifying profession.
If the property is sold the percentage assistance initially provided is the percentage taken out of the equity to go back to paying for the program.
Appropriations, Justice and Public Safety
Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform
Ethics
Judiciary
Local Government
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2020
Antoine G. Marshall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Marshall's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Antoine is a father, husband, attorney, community servant and Raleigh native.
A product of Wake County Public Schools graduating from Southeast Raleigh High School in 2005. He went on to get a B.A. from Claflin University and Juris Doctor from Wake Forest School of Law.
Antoine has a long experience working in Government and policy. His experience includes working in the Congressional offices of Congressman James Clyburn and Congresswoman Donna Christensen. He also interned with the Congressional Black Caucus of the South Carolina State Legislature and served as a legislative assistant for NC State Senator Jay Chaudhuri. These experiences gave Antoine the insight to see how sound policy could benefit communities.
A licensed attorney since 2012, Antoine has dedicated his career to applying his education in a manner that honors his Law School's motto 'Pro Humanitatae' (For Humanity). Antoine began his career as an Attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina working with low income families in the areas of landlord/tenant. He currently operates the Law Office of Antoine G. Marshall, a solo practice firm.
He is married to Dr. Chrishele Marshall and together they have two daughters.
- A new generation of leadership for North Carolina
- Restructuring our Elected bodies to ensure that our legislature looks like the people they represent
- Smart policy solutions for systemic problems.
Affordable Housing, giving our municipal governments the tools needed to build more affordable housing
Access to Justice, funding for civil legal service agencies
Prison Gerrymandering. The process of counting prisoners at the location of the facility they are held in and not the communities they came from and will return to upon release. It removes voting power and resources from high crime communities.
Public financing for political campaigns
Turning the Minimum Wage into a Living Wage. Tasking the Dept. Of Labor to create a cost of living calculator and tie the Minimum wage to the cost of living.
An independent redistricting commission comprised of a 15 member people made up of
- 3 retired NC Supreme Court or Court of Appeal judges appointed by the Governor. At least one judge cannot share the judge's political party.
- 4 individuals selected by the General Assembly appointed by the Majority and Minority leaders in the House and Senate
- 8 civilians selected by a lottery system overseen by the NC Secretary of State.
2 Republican, 2 Democrat and 4 Unaffiliated.
Each individual appointed by a legislative leader has the ability to strike 1 person chosen by lottery for their party slot and 1 person for the independent slot.
An approved map has to pass through this committee with approval from at least 10 votes of the 15-member commission, and will then be subject to an up/down vote by the General Assembly.
One of my heroes is Paul Robeson. He exemplified excellence in so many areas of life, a All-American athlete, accomplished singer, and civil rights activist.
The show the West Wing
The book Things Fall Apart
A good elected official is wise enough to come up with solutions, open enough to receiving criticism, understanding that there is a lot they need to know, brave enough to admit when they need help and humble enough to do all this without grandstanding.
Understanding of policy and the ability to connect policies to outcomes.
A willingness to listen to a broad arrange of groups
Strong public speaker and communicator
Fairness, equity and a strong desire to do the most good for the most people.
When my career is over I would like more people to be able to run for office. Younger people and lower income individuals are barred from considering a career in public service due to the structure around low legislator pay and lack of public financing for campaigns. Our legislature should look like the people they represent.
September 11, 2001. I was in the 7th grade.
In high school I worked for a cleaning company contracted to clean the common areas of an apartment complex. Once a week I would go to the facility and sweep, mop, and clean the baseboards the common areas of eight four-story units. I worked the job for 2 years, even while working other jobs.
1984. The discussion of politics, policy and the scary totalitarian role of how it could impact lives.
Old Town Road. I have two daughters ages 2 and 3. They began randomly singing it on the car ride home, and it became stuck in my head.
Maintaining a work-life balance. I'm a workaholic and stepping away from work to take a vacation or relax.
Outside of the size difference (50 seats compared to 120) I believe the biggest difference is the personalities in the room. The NC Senate is led by Phil Berger who is a strategic ideologue who sets pretty severe restrictions on what Freshmen members of the Senate are allowed to do.
I believe that there is a benefit to experience. Policy creating is a skill, and like any skill you get better over time. I don't think experience in government is the only way to learn how to policy craft policy.
There are several types of experiences outside of serving in elected office that exposes one to deep dives into policy outcomes such as through the non-profit world or working with businesses heavily influenced by government policy.
Getting a state legislature that is truly reflective of the state. Partisanship has paralyzed our state. We have failed to pass a budget and legislation is not crafted, rather forced by few key lawmakers with rank and file having little input other than voting up or down on it.
I believe this is because through gerrymandering we have a legislature that does not have public support and rather than get a majority through convincing voters they have found it more convenient to rig rules and cheat their way into a majority.
The Governor and the State Legislature are supposed to work to create laws on the benefit of the state. I believe that the legislature is to craft policy and give the Governor the authority to enforce policy.
The process of crafting policy requires compromise. Without a veto proof majority and the Governor's mansion, any policy must get passed with at least some bipartisan support. And many times to get that bipartisan support it requires horse trading and coming off ideological positions towards compromise. Without trust that the other side of the negotiation isn't going to stab you in the back, nothing gets accomplished.
Elections and Ethics Committee
Redistricting
State and Local Government
I would like to be in leadership. Realistically, the Democratic Party freshman Leader.
Mickey Michaux was an institution all in himself. He drew respect on both sides of the aisle, and his knowledge and understanding of the organization was unmatched.
Right now I'm just interested in making my state a better place from the State House.
Many of the stories that inspired me to run for office were the clients I represented at Legal Aid. My most vivid memory was a foreclosure case of an elderly woman. It was one of my very first cases at Legal Aid. She reminded me of my grandmother. I had exhausted all attempts at remedy to save her house. Our last conversation I informed her there was nothing I could do, she was going to lose her house. She asked if she could pray for me. Here we were, she was losing her home and sensing how distraught I was took her time to pray for me. Since then I've trying to be worthy of her prayer by investing myself in all of my clients and my community as a whole.
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
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