Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton raised $2.5 million by the end of the year.

According to campaign finance reports submitted to the State Board of Elections, the Rutherfordton Democrat raised $145,000 in the final quarter of the year.

Major donors during that period included Carolina Crossroads event coordinator Elizabeth Branham, Greenville attorney Marvin K. Blount III, Chapel Hill developer Michael Cucchiara and former UNC-Wilmington Chancellor Jim Leutze.

The political action committees for BB&T, the Carolina Asphalt Pavement Association, Caremark Rx employees, Dominion, the Eastern band of Cherokee Indians, John Deere, McGuire Woods, and the N.C. Association of Educators.

He also received donations from the campaigns of state Sens. Dan Clodfelter and Tony Rand, retiring Rep. Jim Harrell, Congressman Heath Shuler, among others.

In addition, Dalton received a total of $95,000 from the N.C. Democratic Party. 

Walter Dalton received $88,750 from political action committees in 2007.

According to his mid-year and end-of-year campaign finance reports, the candidate for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor received money from 53 different PACs.

The top donors, who gave $4,000 each: Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, Progress Energy, R.J. Reynolds, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Duke Energy.

Blue Cross Blue Shield gave $3,500 and the Dominion energy company gave $3,000.

Dalton also received $2,000 donations from the N.C. Farm Bureau Federation, the N.C. Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, the N.C. Automobile Dealers Association, Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

Other notable PAC donations came from Kerr Drug, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, the Carolina Asphalt Pavement Association and Time-Warner Cable.

Note: This list does not include money from other political campaigns.