Endorsements

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Dale Merritt & Brooke Merritt Chalk named Honorary Co-Chairs of Young Professionals for Merritt

(August 5, 2008) -- Dale Merritt and Brooke Merritt Chalk, State Auditor Leslie Merritt’s adult children, have been named Honorary Co-Chairs of Young Professionals for Merritt.  "It is essential to have your family’s support in an endeavor as important as a statewide campaign,” said Auditor Merritt. “I am grateful that Dale and Brooke, who as young professionals already have a number of other obligations on their plates, are willing to take an active role in my re-election effort. Brooke and Dale are why I chose to enter public service. Their generation and those who follow them will inherit the state and nation we leave behind, and I am committed to doing my part to ensure that they inherit a state that is in sound financial shape.”  more...

State Employees endorse Auditor Merritt for re-election
(July 28, 2008) -- The Employees Political Action Committee, a subsidiary of the State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC), has endorsed State Auditor Leslie Merritt for re-election. Merritt, who is serving his first term, is the only Republican candidate for the Council of State to earn SEANC’s endorsement in 2008. The endorsements were approved Saturday by SEANC’s Board of Governors.  more...

Holshouser, Martin, Gardner & Faircloth named Honorary Campaign Co-Chairs

(January 23, 2008) -- State Auditor Les Merritt today announced that former governors Jim Holshouser and Jim Martin, former Lt. Governor Jim Gardner and former U.S. Senator Lauch Faircloth will serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of his 2008 re-election campaign.  more...