News & Observer endorses Grier Martin (2006)
Wednesday November 1, 2006 8:01 PM
"District 34: Martin
In one term representing a district that's mostly in North Raleigh (and dips a little inside the Beltline), Democrat Grier Martin of Raleigh has shown good instincts: He didn't take free meals from lobbyists even before ethics reform was enacted, and he declined the $104-a-day living allowance for lawmakers even though he could have claimed it. Martin, a 36-year-old attorney, has been an energetic, imaginative legislator not afraid to break with the partisan status quo -- he opposed the state lottery -- and deserves a second term, for which The News & Observer endorses him.
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Grier Martin has the kind of progressive ideas of which the General Assembly is in desperate need."
In one term representing a district that's mostly in North Raleigh (and dips a little inside the Beltline), Democrat Grier Martin of Raleigh has shown good instincts: He didn't take free meals from lobbyists even before ethics reform was enacted, and he declined the $104-a-day living allowance for lawmakers even though he could have claimed it. Martin, a 36-year-old attorney, has been an energetic, imaginative legislator not afraid to break with the partisan status quo -- he opposed the state lottery -- and deserves a second term, for which The News & Observer endorses him.
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Grier Martin has the kind of progressive ideas of which the General Assembly is in desperate need."