Source: WRAL, 3/25/18

A former powerbroker in North Carolina's General Assembly is ready to return to the legislature to fill a newly vacant seat. 
The Daily Herald of Roanoke Rapids reported Sunday that a local Democratic Party committee picked Milton "Toby" Fitch Jr.to fill the state Senate seat for the rest of this year. The Rocky Mount-area seat opened after Sen. Angela Bryant resigned Monday and took a $117,000 job on the state parole commission. 

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