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Under the Dome: Charles Malone won the Democratic primary despite having dropped out over health concerns. He says those issues are resolved and he’s ready to take on George Holding, the Republican candidate.
Modified: 05/29/12 08:20:57 PMUnder the Dome: Crossroads GPS, the Super PAC associated with Karl Rove, the former advisor to President George W. Bush, has begun airing a new commercial in North Carolina. It is a soft-focused ad that aimed at people who may have voted for Obama in 2008 and may be having doubts about voting for him again.
Modified: 05/28/12 07:22:20 PMUnder the Dome: A new grant-management billing system caused the N.C. National Guard to be late on a $17,800 invoice for a conference at a resort.
Modified: 05/26/12 04:44:14 PM
Under the Dome: The 70-year-old lawmaker has been accused of crossing the center line and crashing into another car. The accident happened in December.
Modified: 05/25/12 12:25:49 PM
Under the Dome: The Democrat had been accused of using state funds to create political advertising.
Modified: 05/24/12 09:47:45 AMUnder the Dome: The Regulatory Reform Act is filled with hodgepodge of issues. Senate committee will be first to take a look at it.
Modified: 05/23/12 05:02:45 AMUnder the Dome: A federal judge struck down part of North Carolina’s public campaign financing system, following in the footsteps of other cases that link political money to free speech.
Modified: 05/22/12 04:28:42 AM
Under the Dome: Delaware District Attorney Beau Biden, a major in the Delaware Army National Guard, will kick off a NC veterans event for President Obama in Greensboro.
Modified: 05/21/12 04:13:34 AMUnder the Dome: Stephanie Cutter, the Obama campaign’s deputy manager, said the campaign remains strongly committed to winning North Carolina. She dismissed recent reports that the campaign made a mistake in targeting the state because of its high unemployment and recent Republican gains.
Modified: 05/19/12 04:48:00 PMUnder the Dome: A group formed by the Democratic Governor’s Association is spending about $217,000 to run the commercial in the Raleigh and Greensboro market. The buy comes just days after the Republican Governors Associated attacked Democratic nominee Walter Dalton.
Modified: 05/18/12 06:05:56 AMUnder the Dome: The conservative provocateur responds to Gary Bartlett, executive director of the N.C. State Board of Elections. Meanwhile, the liberal blog Think Progress says it has already refuted one of the claims made by O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
Modified: 05/17/12 07:01:14 AM
Under the Dome: A new poll shows the North Carolina governor’s race is much closer than expected, with Republican Pat McCrory holding a 6-point edge over Democratic rival Walter Dalton.
Modified: 05/16/12 09:21:57 AMUnder the Dome: Congressional candidate Scott Keadle last week said he hadn’t spent “two seconds” thinking about the president’s birthplace. But that’s not what he told a Tea Party group in April.
Modified: 05/15/12 03:53:04 AM
Under the Dome: N.C. Democratic Party Chairman David Parker controls the purse strings, and some in the party didn’t want to disrupt the flow of money.
Modified: 05/13/12 10:40:06 PMUnder the Dome: State Board of Education Chairman Bill Harrison writes in his blog that more school employees will lose their jobs if the state does not replace the $258 million in federal “edu-jobs” money that school districts are using to pay their employees.
Modified: 05/13/12 07:36:18 AM
There’s a call for embattled N.C. Democratic Party Chairman David Parker to stay, even as activists meet Saturday to replace him.
Modified: 05/11/12 06:44:20 AMLongtime Democratic House member Jim Crawford of Oxford was voted out of office, and it could be because of his vote on the abortion bill.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Central North Carolina and Planned Parenthood Health Systems Action Fund were the entities involved in North Carolina's Primary Election. They are separately incorporated 501 c(4) organizations. Modified: 05/25/12 03:19:33 PMCommon Cause has asked North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to investigate the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC, which promotes free-market laws in state legislatures, is a lobbying organization and not a nonprofit charity, Common Cause contends.
Modified: 05/09/12 06:56:46 AMThe N.C. Democratic Party made a $9,135 transfer on March 19 to its legal defense fund as part of financial settlement with a former staffer who alleged he was sexually harassed, new documents indicate.
Modified: 05/08/12 05:38:48 AMUnder the Dome: With a little more than a day to go, Vote for Marriage N.C. and the Coalition to Protect All N.C. Families are still asking for money for last-minute campaigning. Tuesday’s vote will determine whether North Carolina amends its constitution to ban same-sex marriage and legal recognition of civil unions and domestic partnerships.
Modified: 05/08/12 09:04:41 PM
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