Both former Governor Pat McCrory and Congressman Ted Budd can claim some positive momentum in their campaigns for U.S. Senate after 2nd quarter fundraising totals were posted Thursday, July 15. McCrory outperformed all his primary opponents in the North Carolina race, raising $1,237,000 from April through June of this year. The Budd for Senate campaign...
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper raised $605,649 — 7% of his 2019 campaign funds — from residents of New York and California, based on a Carolina Journal analysis of his campaign finance reports. But details about Cooper’s fundraising trips to those states are hard to come by. Two trips to New York are at the heart...
Paul Gessing wanted to pop the top on the soda tax in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That was all. The president of the libertarian Rio Grande Foundation never planned to file a lawsuit against the city. But when Santa Fe elected officials accused him of violating a campaign finance ordinance and demanded to see his donor...
What if the governor broke campaign finance laws but no state election board was there to rule? Maybe he would stall an investigation by not appointing members to the board. North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes offered that scenario Wednesday in a news conference. Hayes accused Gov. Roy Cooper of repeating past Democratic governors’...
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson is “astonished” that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Middle District of North Carolina is holding the state’s congressional candidates in electoral limbo by failing to rule on whether new district boundaries will be used for the June 7 primary. “We haven’t heard a peep out of them,” said Hudson, a...
American politicians, parties, and interest groups spend relatively little on their electoral campaigns. And the side that spends the most money doesn’t always win.
Jeanette Doran on bringing N.C. into compliance with campaign finance ruling; advocates debate state spending plans; legislators debate compensation for eugenics victims; Marc Levin on juvenile justice policy; Jenna Ashley Robinson on reining in Pell grants
The Left is oddly mesmerized by the notion that corporations shouldn’t be allowed to expend dollars on politics because corporations aren’t people.
Coercing taxpayers to fund the campaigns of candidates with whom they may passionately disagree is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
Lawmakers should vote down a bill to expand North Carolina’s system of taxpayer-funded campaigns for Council of State positions. It is flatly unconstitutional.
As long as America remains a free society, it will be impossible to force politically active people to shut up.
