According to Bearing Drift, the opponent for Democratic candidate Troy Farlow in the 96th house district will be Republican Brenda Pogge. Like the earlier race between Faisal Gill and Julie Lucas in the 51st, this selection is not without controversy: Sheila Noll, one of the other candidates in the three-way race is contesting the results.
At York, Sheila Noll won the precinct, but some voters were disqualified to vote because they had voted in the 2005 Democratic Primary.
The 96th became an open seat when incumbent Melanie Rapp retired. Pogge was endorsed by Rapp for the seat and Rapp made significant contributions to the Pogge campaign.
Troy Farlow has been working hard in the district. His financial report shows that he has more than $50,000 on hand. Pogge, the presumed winner, had only $9,200 on hand.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Troy Farlow was never a successful business man on the shore, I don’t think it even lasted a year, during the height of the building boom on the shore
2) Troy considers himself wall street banker. He spent 5 months in NYC, the first 2 volunteering by getting coffee and the next 3 in aquistions and mergers. I don’t think 3 months on the job qualifies as wall street experience.
3) Troy was never a community leader on the shore. Never held any office or did any community volunteerism, except help L. Lewis with his campaign. Troy is such an embarrassment to the shore. I think you will be hard pressed to see Lewis endorse him for the 96th District. Lewis did not formally endorse Troy when he tried to run for the 2nd District. What a joke.
3) Troy claims he went to Duke Grad School. He obvisiously was only there for a short time because according to an AP story he was laid off from PriceCooper in the spring of 2001. And we all know he left to go to Wall Street after 9/11/01. So he could have only been enrolled in the summer or got accepted in the fall and then never went because he went to go work on Wall Street for 5 months after 9/11/01. According to a book written in 2003, Troy states he drove overnight to Duke to meet with the head of the business school and she extended the enrollment by 15 days just for Troy with, by his own admission, a 2.4 gpa from Elon and he had not even taken the GMAT or GRE. Come On! As competitive as Duke is they let in Troy Farlow with a 2.4 gpa and no entrance exam. What about all of the people who filed properly with a 3.0 or better and acceptleable entrance exam from the GMAT or GRE, and did not get in. And they accepted Troy Farlow. Folks, I think Troy maybe applied and got denied. Troy is good at exaggerating the facts.