Alliance to name donors tomorrow


The Alliance for North Carolina is expected to name at least some of its donors Friday.

The so-called "issue advocacy" group began airing a television ad today criticizing Republican candidate for governor Pat McCrory, David Ingram reports. But little is known about the group, which was renamed from the Pioneer Majority only this month.

Scott Falmlen, a spokesman for Alliance for North Carolina, said it plans to file a statement with the State Board of Elections on Friday. He said the statement was not yet ready Thursday afternoon.

The group has little choice but to file the statement. State law requires it to do so within 24 hours of the airing of a "candidate-specific communication."

The statement should include donations and expenses above $1,000, according to the law.

Update: A spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association confirmed this evening that it gave $500,000 to the Alliance for North Carolina.

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Re: Here's the problem

AGREED! Hey, Bob Hall, where are you on this? We all know that Bob has his own political agenda...

Fyi:

Scott Falmlen, Principal Nexus Strategies
Falmlen has an extensive record of success in managing major political campaigns and party organizations.

For over twenty years, he has served as a campaign advisor, manager, or state party executive director involving competitive races for Governor, the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, the state legislature, and numerous local offices.

Most recently, Falmlen directed the North Carolina Democratic Party’s 2006 Coordinated Campaign effort that resulted in the expansion of Democratic majorities in both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly; that successfully unseated an eight term incumbent Republican member of the United States House of Representatives; and that came within 329 votes of unseating another entrenched Republican incumbent congressman.

Falmlen served as the Executive Director of the North Carolina Democratic Party from 1999-2005 leading the party through Governor Mike Easley’s election and re-election campaigns and overseeing the Party’s efforts in the 2000, 2002, 2004 elections for President, US Senate, US House of Representatives, and the North Carolina General Assembly. During that time, Falmlen also served as President of the National Association of State Democratic Executive Directors.

Prior to his work in North Carolina, Falmlen served as the Executive Director of the Florida Democratic Party from 1995-1999. He also served as the Chief of Staff to the Majority Leader of the Florida Senate and served as Director of External Affairs/Political Director for Florida Governor Lawton Chiles.

Falmlen also has proved adept at understanding and complying with complex campaign finance laws and regulations while at the same time creating party operation and campaign plans that take advantage of all available legal campaign finance options.

Scott Falmlen received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with Minors in Business and History from Georgetown College.

This should be the headline in the story - online and print:
The Democratic Governors Association confirmed that it gave $500,000 to the Alliance for North Carolina.

Here's the other problem

These reports aren't going to show up at the SBOE until 4:55 pm today. Then none of the principals involved will be able to be found to comment over the weekend. And a half researched story gets tucked into the paper Saturday or Sunday and the media moves on to other things next week. Meantime we never do find out anything about the "Alliance" funding for their false misleading negative attack ad.

Here's the problem

Whatever you think about it the RGA PAC clearly lists its donors.

The DGA has set up a series of front groups to avoid releasing the names of the people actually funding the ad.

Today's story's will say "Alliance funded by DGA" which is what the DGA wants. The public still will not know who contributed the funds to the DGA that were passed through to the "alliance".

The Democrats, who I will note again have been bashing McCrory for raising $800 dollars of PAC money with the assistance of the News and Observer and other media outlets, have set up a shell game to avoid disclosing the source of their funding.

We'll be able to tell how far in the tank the N&O etc. are for the Democrats by the level of vigor shown in attempting to unravel the specific groups funding the "Alliance's" false and misleading negative attack ads.

Re: Alliance to name donors tomorrow

Beverly Perdue = MORE CORRUPTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION!!!

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a corrupt NC democrackkk!!!

Re: Alliance to name donors tomorrow

What a surprise!! The DGA gave $500,000 to an arm of the campaign of "Positive Bev". Yet her mouthpiece ripped McCrory for getting far less than that from the RGA. Talk about hypocracy.