Libertarian Candidate Felicia Dreher hopes to be the first Libertarian County Commissioner
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Hello Felicia. Felicia Dreher is the Libertarian candidate in Davidson County's November 3 special election. She calls it “The People’s seat not the politicians.”
Dreher grew up in Brenham, Texas — the small town famous as the home of Blue Bell Ice Cream. It's a long way from Brenham to Davidson County, North Carolina, but Dreher made the move for family, drawn by relationships and by the stories she kept hearing about the community she now calls home.
"It's just very beautiful — there is a lot of nature in Davidson County," Dreher said.
Farmland and waterways are a major debate for residents in Davidson County. Dreher says that beauty is under attack and opposes the Sportsplex Project, Data Centers and questions millions of dollars afforded to the county but being held up in bureaucracy. She was recently appalled by the 12.1 million in Opioid Settlement Dollars after the loss of a friend to the crisis.
Since settling in Davidson County in 2019, Dreher has become an enthusiastic explorer of everything the area offers: the Yadkin River, Boone's Cave, High Rock Lake, and local parks like Thomas-Lex. She's especially fond of the South Davidson community along Highway 109, with its tree-lined roads and tight-knit feel. Somewhere along the way, the Texas transplant even became a convert to Lexington-style barbecue.
Outside of work, Dreher fills her time with fellowship at church, camping, fishing and hiking — the same rural, outdoor lifestyle that first drew her to the county.
About a year and a half ago, Dreher joined the Libertarian Party. She completed training through the North Carolina State Board of Elections Treasurer Training and has stayed close with others from that experience, describing the relationships that grew out of it in familial terms. For Dreher, the party's core belief — that individuals govern their own rights and are best positioned to make decisions about their own lives — resonated with how she already saw the world. She said she also wants to reach Davidson County’s growing number of unaffiliated voters.
Now she's a candidate herself, running as the Libertarian Party's candidate in a special election called for November 3, prompted by a vacancy tied to Fred McClure's race. It's an unusually compressed campaign, and Dreher doesn't shy away from calling herself the underdog. She'll be the only Libertarian name on a ballot that includes several other candidates, and she's quick to say she holds genuine respect for the people she's running against. Still, she wants Davidson County voters to have another option— someone in the race representing that perspective. As Dreher puts it, she's running for the people, not for the politicians.”
A Career Built Around Service
Dreher's path to nursing wasn't a straight line, and that's part of what shapes her candidacy. Before entering health care, she worked as a school bus driver and a custodian in Davidson County — jobs that put her inside the county's school buildings day after day. What she saw stayed with her: schools, she says, that need extensive repairs.
That firsthand view of the school system has followed her into other kinds of service. When schools shut down and children weren't coming in for meals, Dreher helped deliver food directly to kids at home. She has volunteered with Meals on Wheels and with RACE Against Drugs, and much of her work — past and present — she has centered on caring for Davidson County's older residents.
Today, Dreher works as a full-time nurse. During the COVID-19 pandemic she served as a CNA, and she also ran her own small business helping people who couldn't manage cleaning, shopping or other everyday needs on their own. Taken together, her career has touched nearly every generation in the county, from schoolchildren to senior citizens.
Dreher is the mother of two sons who are active in youth sports, and even there her attention circles back to the schools. She has been an outspoken critic of local sportsplex spending, arguing the money would be better directed toward addressing the repair needs she saw firsthand as a custodian and bus driver.
Her community involvement extends further still. For years she served as the "Bingo Lady" at a well-attended local church, and she has volunteered with the Salvation Army's Boys and Girls Club programs.
Faith at her core
Dreher describes herself simply as a follower of Jesus Christ and a believer — someone whose choices, including her decision to run for office, are faith-driven. She was shocked by the party nomination and did not accept until she went home to pray. It's a thread that runs through how she talks about her campaign: an underdog race, in an unusually short window, entered not because she expected an easy path but because she wanted Davidson County voters to have the people’s voice — and the Libertarian Party's — on the ballot come November 3.
