State Rep. Mary McAllister is the subject of upcoming hearings by the State Board of Elections related to questions about campaign finance reports that show she has paid herself back on a loan by more than twice the amount of the loan.
McAllister, a Democrat from Cumberland County, has said the problems are errors.
She's getting attention for something else, too, Andy Curliss reports. McAllister's fulltime job is as director of a nonprofit in the Sandhills that focuses on helping people with sickle cell anemia disease.
A review of past bills she filed shows that last year McAllister was the lead sponsor on a bill that would have given her own organization $500,000 in taxpayer money. The bill was referred to a committee and died.
McAllister did not return a phone call this afternoon, but she said in 2005 that she had never used her position in the legislature to steer state money to the nonprofit.
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She is paid over $100,000 per year for doing nothing from her so-called non-profit which is funded by our tax dollars. These types of nonprofits are everywhere and are funded to get community leaders in certain communities to help deliver that community vote to the
Democrats. In other words, buying votes with your tax dollars. The non-profit corporations and organizations do not make a profit, but are profitable indeed to those at the helm. These things are everywhere and are a disgrace and a major rip off. I challenged the N&O to do a followup in a few years on a story they did about a nonprofit set up by a lady to help low income families get housing. If they will go look at that and all others like it, they will find that if they took the total dollars run through the organization and divide it by the number of houses built, they could have bought the poor folks houses at the Governors Club in Chapel Hill. Don't expect the Democrat leadership to do anything about it because it is in their interes to keep it going.