Becki Gray

Senior Vice President
Becki Gray is Senior Vice President of the John Locke Foundation. She provides information, consultation, and publications to elected officials, government staff and other decision makers involved in the state public-policy process.

Gray taps her experience in the legal field, at the North Carolina General Assembly and as a lobbyist in the private sector as well as the full resources and staff of JLF to fulfill requests for information and analysis from policymakers.

She offers commentary on television and radio shows across North Carolina and is a regular panelist on NCSpin. Gray writes a monthly column for Carolina Journal and her op-eds have been published in newspapers across the state. She frequently speaks to civic and political groups about public policy and legislative issues.

She earned an Art degree at Queens College in Charlotte, a Paralegal Certificate from Meredith College and has completed graduate work at UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Greensboro.

Gray is a member of the first class of the John Locke Foundation’s E.A. Morris Fellows, a statewide leadership program. She serves on the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees.

Posts by Becki Gray (page 1)

  • Self preservation may be key to collaboration on redistricting

    On opening day of the 2019-20 General Assembly, we heard lots of promises of collaboration.  There are opportunities to work together; finding a budget that meets the state’s needs while keeping policies that have created strong economic growth, reforms to an archaic alcohol beverage system, and creating a health care…
    Becki Gray, January 17, 2019

  • Cooper’s priorities for 2019

    Cleaning out my notebook and found notes from Governor Cooper’s address to the NC Rural Assembly on November 16, 2018.  He outlined his priorities for 2019. 2018 wraps on a contentious note between the governor and the General Assembly, i.e. voter ID veto and overrides and a lawsuit already,…
    Becki Gray, December 20, 2018

  • More, not fewer monuments and markers. Clinton leads the way.

    After months of controversy, protests and discussion about southern history, confederate monuments and the appropriate way to remember our history and learn from the past, I was touched by a recent news report out of Clinton.  Instead of destroying and eliminating confederate monuments we need more monuments, more memorials and…
    Becki Gray, December 15, 2018

  • We’re losing the war on poverty. Professor Jacobs explained how at yesterday’s Shaftesbury talk.

    Professor Micheal Jacobs joined us yesterday for a fascinating report on how progressive initiatives are actually increasing poverty and hurting those who most need help.  This hour long video is well worth your time and guaranteed to make you think about how policies intended to help the poor are actually…
    Becki Gray, September 25, 2018

  • Update on NC’s proposed Constitutional amendments

    As you recall, the General Assembly proposed six amendments to the state constitution be put before the voters in the upcoming November election, as authorized in our constitution.  Gov Roy Cooper (who is no stranger to suing the General Assembly) filed a lawsuit arguing that amendments 5 and 6 on…
    Becki Gray, August 27, 2018
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  • Constitutional amendment re-write

    Following the three judge panel ruling that the General Assembly could either take the two amendments in question off the ballot or re-write them, the General Assembly is coming back tomorrow, with pencils sharpened, ready to re-write. Here are the two amendments that have been the subject of…
    Becki Gray, August 23, 2018
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  • Constitutional amendments on the ballot in November

    One of the last legislative actions of the 2018 short session were proposed amendments to the NC Constitution.  The General Assembly cannot make changes; the state constitution does not allow that. But what they can do is put before the voters proposed amendments and by referendum, the voters make that…
    Becki Gray, June 29, 2018

  • Why, how, what and who of the vetoes

    Why?  Because our State Constitution says so: Article II, Sec. 22.  Action on bills. (1)              Bills subject to veto by Governor; override of veto.  Except as provided by subsections (2) through (6) of this section, all bills shall be read three times in each house and shall be signed by…
    Becki Gray, June 26, 2018