NC group files complaint about Republican PAC
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
By Staff
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Writer
A new Republican political committee seeking to get Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory elected North Carolina governor is breaking the law by how it funnels money through its national group, according to a complaint filed Wednesday.
Now a group supported by the Democratic Governors Association has formed an independent political organization and appears poised to run television advertisements in North Carolina.
The campaign finance group Democracy North Carolina asked the State Board of Elections to investigate a political action committee of the Republican Governors Association, which has collected more than $380,000 since it organized in May.
Group executive director Bob Hall said in a letter to the board that the RGA North Carolina 2008 Political Action Committee is misleading the public about who is giving to the North Carolina effort. He said that breaks campaign finance rules. (more…)
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