Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue held a fundraiser with federal lobbyists in Washington Friday.
Their state counterparts would not have been able to donate to her putative gubernatorial campaign under a state campaign finance law that went into effect Jan. 1.
Reform advocates said the event shows the limits of their efforts.
"I don't know how you would regulate it," said Louisa Warren, director of the N.C. Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform.
Lobbyists for Rent-A-Center, Time Warner Cable and other companies met Perdue at the law firm of Oldaker, Biden & Belair. The fundraiser was expected to raise $20,000.
"Our campaign has raised almost every one of our dollars from inside North Carolina," said Peter Reichard, Perdue's finance director, "and it is well within the rules for us to have a fundraiser at a major Washington law firm." (Char-O)
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