RALEIGH, N.C. – The Executive Committee of the Wake County Republican Party has announced its candidate endorsements for the Oct. 6 elections.

On that day, voters in Wake County will go to the polls to elect candidates in various municipal offices and four districts in the Wake County Board of Education.

Claude E. Pope, Jr., Chairman of the Wake GOP, said, “We are delighted with the high caliber of candidates who sought our endorsement, and look forward to providing significant support to these candidates, including financial contributions, volunteer workers, training, and election day efforts.”

The Republican endorsement is given on the basis of a vote of the party’s executive committee, which met Monday night at the NCGOP headquarters on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh.

The candidates endorsed at the meeting are as follows:

Wake County Board of Education:

District 1: Chris Malone
District 2: John Tedesco
District 7: Jerry Ballan
District 9: Debra Goldman

City of Raleigh:

Mayor: Larry D. Hudson II
At-Large: Champ Claris
District B: John Odom
District E: Lisa Elliot

Town of Cary:

At-Large: Philip Scarsella
District A: Jennifer Robinson
District C: Jack Smith