How much can you give a candidate before it becomes a public record?
In July, the legislature voted to lower the threshold for candidates to report the name, occupation and address of a donor from $100 to $50.
A House bill would now push the threshold back to $100.
It's a debatable change, but the first half of the bill's title does seem a tad, well, defensive:
An act to restore the law on disclosing the identity of political contributors...
The bill is co-sponsored by Reps. Paul Luebke and Bill Faison, both Durham Democrats, and Rep. Edgar Starnes, a Hickory Republican.
