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Wiley Nickel accepts over $80k from corporate PACs after filing bill against it

Between the months of April and June of 2023, Congressman Wiley Nickel, D-NC13, accepted $88,500 from corporate PACs. Company PACs include Amazon, Visa, and H&R Block. During his time in the state legislature, then state-Senator Wiley Nickel sponsored legislation urging Congress to act on corporate influence in American elections, saying “corporate participation in the political process often conflicts with...

Alex Baltzegar
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Sydney Batch announces on Twitter she will replace Searcy in N.C. Senate

Sydney Batch, a Wake County Democrat, announced Saturday on Twitter that she will fill a seat in the N.C. Senate vacated by Sam Searcy, who resigned. Cooper would appoint her. Batch, elected to the N.C. House in 2018, in November lost her seat to Republican Erin Pare, who got 50% of the vote to Batch’s...

John Trump
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Jackson picked for Court of Appeals; Searcy also resigns from General Assembly

The former House minority leader is set to join the state Court of Appeals. A Wake County state senator who considered a run for U.S. Congress also resigned from a seat he recently won. Rep. Darren Jackson becomes the second Wake County Democrat to announce he’s leaving the General Assembly as the 2021 session is...

Rick Henderson

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