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The family-funded super PAC supporting George Holding's election to Congress plans on running TV ads constantly between now and the primary election, according to Palmer Sugg, the Raleigh attorney who is one of its founders.
The American Foundations Committee just dropped about $93,000 on this week's ad, according to the latest federal campaign finance report it will be filing.
The Paul Coble campaign kicked off today’s round by sending out a news release titled, “George Holding: Up to His Eyeballs in Debt!”
The debt refers to the nearly $250,000 in debt his campaign committee has incurred. Is he up to his eyeballs?
One of the most passionately fought campaigns of this year’s primary season is the slugfest between former federal prosecutor George Holding and Wake County Commissioner Paul Coble, who are vying for a seat in Congress.
The race has produced North Carolina's first super PAC. It ranks No. 9 as the most active super PAC playing in a congressional race in the nation. And like other super PACs in this new world, how The American Foundations Committee is permitted to operate is somewhat controversial and sometimes unclear. Click here to read more, see a list of donors and get a primer on super PAC rules.
To get your political fill, here are more big headlines from this weekend:
--Newt Gingrich tries to keep GOP race alive. In stumping across the state, Gingrich mainly ignored Romney, but stepped up his criticism of Obama, describing him as "a Chicago-machine politician dedicated to Saul Alinsky’s radicalism." Here's a dispatch from his statewide tour, including stops at a tea party rally in Greensboro and Raleigh. He also visited the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte.
Bob Orr received $284,318 in donations by mid-April of this year.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate raised $76,845 during the first quarter of 2008, according to a campaign finance report that went online today.
Major donors included retired Chapel Hill attorney James Ball, Raleigh developer Max Barbour, Wake County Commissioner Paul Coble and John W. Pope's widow, Joyce.
In addition, Orr loaned his campaign $15,000 in January. Previously, he loaned his campaign $5,000. That raised his campaign's coffers to $304,318 in total.
In the first quarter of this year, Orr spent $68,286 on salaries, office expenses, staff, fundraising and a mailing with the Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, which endorsed him.
He ended the quarter with $10,371 in cash on hand.
Clarification: From the Orr campaign: "We did not do a mailing with the Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They were raising money for a voter information mailer and we sent them a small contribution."
Correction: Dome mistakenly included loans in Orr's totals in an earlier version of this post.
