State Auditor Dave Boliek on Switching Political Parties
Clip: 5/11/2026 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
NC’s State Auditor Dave Boliek on why he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
NC’s State Auditor Dave Boliek discusses why he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and how he maintains nonpartisanship as State Auditor.
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State Auditor Dave Boliek on Switching Political Parties
Clip: 5/11/2026 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
NC’s State Auditor Dave Boliek discusses why he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and how he maintains nonpartisanship as State Auditor.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Democratic Party changed, in my opinion.
My values that I have align more with the Republican Party.
But overall, I think my personal values align with North Carolina and North Carolinians.
And that's what I think I'm trying to represent every day here at the Auditor's Office.
We look at it through the lens of what is, what are the people that I grew up with in Rockingham County, in Guilford County, in Durham County, the people that I worked with and lived with in Cumberland County for the last 27 years?
The people in Orange County and Durham County where I live today.
What do they care about?
And that's the lens that I look at things as I sit here, I mean, the State Auditor unique position takes an additional oath of office that no other member of the council of state takes, and that is an oath to be nonpartisan.
And so everything we do here at the Office of State Auditor is we leave party label at the door and we look at it through that lens: what do North Carolinians care about and what do they want to know about?
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