Greg Dority

Lt. Governors: Loans

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:19:35 -0400

How much have candidates for lieutenant governor loaned their campaigns?

Here's a quick guide to the amount of money each of the major candidates or their spouses have loaned their campaigns, according to campaign finance reports filed with the State Board of Elections.

Figures are for the total loans still outstanding.

Democrats

Hampton Dellinger: $322,500

Dan Besse: $50,000

Pat Smathers: $25,917

Walter Dalton: $0

Republicans

Robert Pittenger: $500,000

Greg Dority: $0

Timothy Cook: $0

Lt. Governors: Fundraising

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:18:52 -0400

How are the candidates for lieutenant governor doing?

Here's a quick guide to the amount raised by each of the major candidates for governor, according to campaign finance reports filed with the State Board of Elections last week.

Figures are for total amount raised so far this election cycle.

Democrats

Walter Dalton: $1.3 million

Hampton Dellinger: $685,412

Dan Besse: $92,285*

Pat Smathers: $87,807**

Republicans

Robert Pittenger: $1.5 million

Greg Dority: $9,183

Timothy Cook: Less than $3,000

* Includes $4,000 donation from Besse.

** Includes $6,513 of in-kind contributions from Smathers.

Previously: How they did by the end of 2007.

Dority raised $9,000 by mid-April

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:44:23 -0400

Greg Dority received $9,183 in contributions by mid-April of 2008.

The Republican candidate for lieutenant governor had no donations to report from earlier reporting periods, so that number is also his total raised so far.

Major donors included insurance representative Walker Lynch and William Graham Settle of Cary.

He did not receive any contributions from political action committees or make any personal loans.

He spent $7,151 on stickers, consulting and signs.

That left him with $2,320 in cash on hand.

Dority: Avoid All-Charlotte ticket

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:50:15 -0500

Greg Dority says Republicans shouldn't double-down on Charlotte.

In an e-mail to reporters, the candidate for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor argued that the party shouldn't put Charlotte pols Pat McCrory and Robert Pittenger on the ballot together:

It would be a disaster for the GOP to field a ticket with both the Governor and Lt Governor candidates from Charlotte. This would be a certain recipe for defeat in November as independents and conservative Democrats down East and in the West would have little incentive to support the GOP Charlotte team versus a Democratic ticket from North Carolina.

Dority, who lives in Beaufort County, is running against Pittenger.

In the crowd at the Wake GOP dinner

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:19:53 -0500

A number of notables were in the audience at the Wake County Republican Party's annual President's Day Dinner tonight.

U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Elizabeth Dole; U.S. House candidates B.J. Lawson and Augustus Cho; state Sens. Richard Stevens and Neal Hunt; Reps. Nelson Dollar and Marilyn Avila; and state House candidates Bryan Gossage, Eric Weaver and Paul Terrell.

Also at the dinner: Gubernatorial candidates Fred Smith, Pat McCrory and Bob Orr; lieutenant governor candidates Greg Dority and Bob Pittenger; and attorney general candidate Bob Crumley.

A few judges and judicial candidates were also at the audience: state Supreme Court Justice Bob Edmunds, Appeals Court judges Ann Marie Calabria and Donna Stroud, Appeals Court candidates John Tyson and Bob Hunter, Wake County District Court Judge Jennifer Green.

And a few local officials: Wake County commissioners Kenn Gardner and Joe Bryan and Register of Deeds Laura Riddick. Wake GOP chairman David Robinson came back to the podium later to note that he had left omitted "an individual who is most likely armed" — Wake Sheriff Donnie Harrison.

Another noted guest was in the audience: Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms' wife, Dot.

The loudest applause of the night went to Helms, Harrison and Avila, the former county chairwoman.

Fundraising: Lt. Governor

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:51:12 -0500

How are the candidates for lieutenant governor doing?

Here's a quick guide to the amount raised by each of the major candidates for governor, according to campaign finance reports filed with the State Board of Elections last week.

Figures are for total amount raised so far this election cycle.

Democrats

Walter Dalton: $855,382

Hampton Dellinger: $576,413

Dan Besse: $81,903*

Pat Smathers: $63,035**

Republicans:

Robert Pittenger:

Greg Dority: $0

* Includes $4,000 donation from Besse.

** Includes $6,513 of in-kind contributions from Smathers.

Dority to form campaign committee

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:49:58 -0500

Greg Dority will form a campaign committee.

On Monday, the candidate for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor announced that he would create a committee to raise $100,000 for the primary and $800,000 for the general election.

He said he would file the paperwork with the State Board of Elections this week.

Dority has not had a campaign committee so far this election season, so he does not have any contributions to report so far.

He announced he was running in late November.

Pittenger kicks off campaign

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:22:55 -0500

State Sen. Robert Pittenger kicked off his campaign for lieutenant governor Monday.

The Charlotte Republican pledged to use the bully pulpit of a statewide office to promote budget-cutting proposals he has repeatedly proposed since taking office in 2003.

"State government has become too big, spends too much and takes too much from taxpayers for the services they get," he said in a speech at the state Republican Party headquarters.

Pittenger said he wants to reform medical malpractice lawsuits, eliminate duplicate spending, cut taxes and put more money and technology into classrooms.

He faces Greg Dority in the Republican primary. (Char-O)

Welcome wagon for Pittenger

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:26:22 -0500

Robert Pittenger got some welcome—and some unwelcome—words today.

As the Republican state senator announced his entry into the race for lieutenant governor, primary opponent Greg Dority said he has "done much for the state," Rob Christensen reports.

"I encourage him to join me in advocating for middle class North Carolinians now suffering an escalating economic hardship driven by excessive state government spending and the ravages of illegal immigration," Greg Dority said in an e-mail to Dome.

Meantime, Democratic candidate Dan Besse sharpened his knives.

In a statement, he said that in a different era Pittenger "might have been president of the Flat Earth Society."Besse, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, is a long-time environmentalist. Pittenger, a Charlotte businessman, has been skeptical about global warming.

"If Mr. Pittenger had been in politics a century ago, he would have declared that electricity will never work, and called it a conspiracy to destroy the candle industry," Besse said.

Charlotte candidate announces run

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:31:41 -0500

After much deliberation, a Charlotte Republican has decided to run for statewide office.

Oh, we're sorry, did you think we meant Pat McCrory?

No, we're referring to state Sen. Robert Pittenger, who has been weighing a run for lieutenant governor since November.

Since then, he's aired TV issue ads, publicly weighed running, changed his campaign committee paperwork, announced he wouldn't run for the state Senate again and picked up an endorsement from former Gov. Jim Martin.

But he's not actually officially announced yet. That'll happen at a news conference Monday in Raleigh.

Four other Democrats and one other Republican, Greg Dority, are running for the post.