Candidate Biography (submitted by campaign):

Professional:

Former:
President and CPA, Goodall Consulting, PA, Charlotte, NC
Tax planning and business advisory services to families and small businesses since 1973

Vice President of Finance & Administration, Atlas Marketing and Subsidiaries, Charlotte, NC Responsible for all non-sales areas of 600 employee, $60 million food broker

Ernst & Young, CPAs, Charlotte, NC  Staff accountant

Activities and Appointments:

Current:
Member, Matthews, and Union County Chambers of Commerce
Member, American Institute and North Carolina Association of CPAs
Member, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Charlotte, NC
Senator, NC Senate District 35
Heartland Institute Legislative Advisory Board

Former:
Tennessee Boy's State appointee
UNC-C Junior Class VP
Founding member Alpha Kappa Psi, (UNC-C’s first fraternity)
Varsity basketball, UNC-C
NC National Guard- Monroe Artillery Battery
Founding member Union West Rotary
Board of Directors, Matthews and Union County Chambers of Commerce
Producer & Host, Off the Record public television show
Board of Directors, 51 Area Business Association
President, Union County Republican Men's Club
VP, Charlotte Christian School Parent Teacher Fellowship
Big Brothers Volunteer
Sam Walton 2000 Business Leader Award
Board Member, Union Academy Foundation, Inc.
Vice Chair and founding board member, Union Academy Charter School (2001-2002 Board Member of the Year)
Junior Achievement Volunteer Consultant
Chairman, Union County Republican Party
Americans for Prosperity Foundation-NC's "2005 Senate Freshman of the Year"
Union County GOP Man of the Year-2005

Married to Carol Sloan Goodall, children Jay, Jessica, and Claire, grandchildren Laya and Beau
Providence Woods South, Weddington, NC                                      

Today we conservatives may be losing the struggle to retain our "traditional way of life" in America. Liberals use the power of the media and judicial system to restrict religion to the church sanctuary, to redefine marriage, to teach a false self-esteem to our youth, to kindle class and racial mistrust by promoting politics of envy. Liberals are bashing free enterprise by painting the very hands that feed us as dirty and by demanding the successful pay an even greater disproportionate amount in taxes. Despite these attacks the constant traditional values and institutions that made America great will continue to work, but only if we increase the struggle to protect them so they can work.