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Perdue raised $7.5 million by mid-April

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on April 30, 2008 - 8:48am.

Beverly Perdue received $7.5 million in donations by mid-April of 2008.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate raised $1.7 million from donors in the first quarter of 2008, according to a report filed with the State Board of Elections.

Major donors included Shelby publisher Douglas Brown, former Disney executive Michael Eisner and Golden Corral CEO Theodore Fowler Jr.

She also raised $49,700 from political action committees, including Abbott Laboratories Employee PAC, the Asheville Anesthesia Associates PAC, the Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina and the Communications Workers of America.

In addition, she loaned her campaign $500,000. Her campaign still owes $275,000 in loans from her husband Robert Eaves Jr. from a previous election.

In the first quarter of the year, Perdue spent $5.9 million on TV ads, polling, office expenses and consulting, leaving her with $938,400 in cash on hand at the end of the reporting period.

Parade of Homes: Beverly Perdue

Submitted by estephenson on February 28, 2008 - 10:46am.

Beverly Perdue's Chapel Hill home is worth $1.7 million.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate's husband, Robert Eaves, built the house in 1994 in the Oaks residential development near the Chapel Hill Country Club.

The five-bedroom house on New Castle Drive has 10 rooms and is about 6,000 square feet. Eaves also built a four-room living space above the house's garage.

In June, Orange County's tax assessor valued the two buildings at $1.2 million and the land at $442,916.

Perdue's second home in Trent Woods, a town near New Bern, is worth $777,480.

Perdue and her former husband built the house in 1985. The land was transferred to Perdue in 1993, the same year that the two separated.

The three-bedroom home on Wilson Point Road has nine rooms and is about 4,600 square feet.

Craven County's tax assessor valued the land at $310,480.

Perdue raised $6.1 million by end of 2007

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on February 1, 2008 - 3:32pm.

Beverly Perdue raised $6.1 million by the end of 2007.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate raised $5.6 million from major donors, including Sanjay Mundra of the Soleil Group development company, MBM CEO Jerry Wordsworth, Grady-White Boats CEO Eddie Smith and Greenville Daily Reflector publisher Jordan Whichard.

She raised $32,762 from donors who gave less than $50.

She received $171,737 from political action committees, including BB&T, the Women's Campaign Forum and the N.C. Hospital Association, and $60,300 from other politicians' campaigns, including state Rep. Bill Owens, Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand and Sen. Dan Clodfelter.

She gave her campaign $3,340 in in-kind contributions, and her husband Robert Eaves Jr. gave $10,495 in in-kind contributions.

In addition, the campaign owes Eaves $275,000 for loans made during her 2000 campaign for lieutenant governor.

She also received a $5,993 in-kind contribution from the N.C. Democratic Party.

At the same time, Perdue spent $1.5 million on travel, office expenses, mailers, consulting and campaign events.

That left her with $4.5 million in cash on hand.