Members decide to stay out of governor, treasurer races

RALEIGH - The State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) today announces bipartisan endorsements for the general election in November. The endorsements are made through SEANC’s Employees Political Action Committee (EMPAC), which is a member-led subsidiary.
 
After interviewing all major party candidates for governor and treasurer, the EMPAC members responsible for endorsements decided to not endorse any candidates in those races.

For statewide office, EMPAC is endorsing the following candidates:

• Linda Coleman for lieutenant governor
• Elaine Marshall for secretary of state
• June Atkinson for state superintendent of the department of public instruction
• Beth Wood for state auditor
• Steve Troxler for state secretary of agriculture

“Never in my tenure at SEANC have our members endorsed such a dynamic and extensively bipartisan group of legislative candidates,” said SEANC Executive Director Dana Cope.

The 67 bipartisan endorsements in races for the General Assembly are a result of recommendations from SEANC members at the district level. Those recommendations were then confirmed by the statewide committee on Saturday. Those 67 endorsed candidates are:

N.C. Senate
District 1    Stan M. White
District 4    Ed Jones
District 5    Don Davis
District 8    Bill Rabon
District 9    Thom Goolsby
District 10    Brent Jackson
District 13    Michael Walters
District 14    Dan Blue
District 16    Josh Stein
District 18    Doug Berger
District 19    Wesley Meredith
District 21    Robert B. Clark III
District 22    Mike Woodard
District 23    Ellie Kinnaird
District 25    Gene McLaurin
District 26    Philip E. (Phil) Berger
District 28    Gladys A. Robinson
District 32    Earline W. Parmon
District 33    Stan Bingham
District 36    Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr.
District 45    Dan Soucek
District 46    John T. McDevitt
District 48    Tom Apodaca
District 49    Martin L. Nesbitt

N.C. House
District 3    Robert B. Cayton
District 4     Jimmy Dixon
District 5     Annie Ward Mobley
District 6     Paul Tine
District 7     Angela R. Bryant
District 9     Marian N. McLawhorn
District 11     Duane Hall
District 12     George Graham
District 18    Susi Hamilton
District 19    Emilie Swearingen
District 22    William Brisson
District 26    Leo Daughtry
District 27    Michael H. Wray
District 28    James H. (J.H.) Langdon, Jr.
District 30    Paul Luebke
District 32     Nathan Baskerville
District 33     Rosa U. Gill
District 36     Nelson Dollar
District 37     Paul Stam
District 38     Yvonne Lewis Holley
District 39     Darren Jackson
District 41    Tom Murry
District 50    Valerie Foushee
District 54    Cathy Wright
District 55    Dale Nelson
District 57    Mary Price (Pricey) Harrison
District 58    Alma Adams
District 59    Jon Hardister
District 60    Marcus Brandon
District 62    John M. Blust
District 64    Dennis Riddell
District 70    Pat B. Hurley
District 71    Evelyn Terry
District 72    Edward (Ed) Hanes, Jr.
District 77     Harry Warren
District 78     Allen McNeill
District 80    Jerry C. Dockham
District 83     Linda P. Johnson
District 88    Rob Bryan
District 94    Jeffrey Elmore
District 95    C. Robert Brawley
District 114    Susan C. Fisher
District 117    Chuck McGrady