The Independent endorses Grier Martin 2006

The Independent weekly newspaper endorsed Grier’s campaign for re-election:

“First-term Rep. Grier Martin, a Democrat, did himself proud by not voting for the lottery, and by not going along with Speaker Black’s method of scrubbing the lottery bill of all grace-saving provisions (it was supposed to have no advertising–remember that one?) by sticking an amended version in the House budget. No wonder, then, that Martin was one of the first in the House to distance himself from Black and to call for serious ethics and campaign-finance reforms. As a freshman, he didn’t get ’em all, but he tried.”