Source:  Jim Morrill, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 6/2/11

Dale Folwell is a champion dirt-bike racer who spends weekends navigating rugged, off-road courses across North Carolina. Now many credit the Winston-Salem Republican with maneuvering a gauntlet of competing interests to help engineer the first overhaul of the state's workers' compensation laws in 17 years. 

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