Bob Orr spent $225,600 in 2007.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate's biggest expense was a $5,000-per-month contract with Raleigh fundraising consultant E. Whitney Jones and related expenses. In all, he paid her $59,769, according to campaign finance reports.
He also spent $10,652 on cell phones, landlines and Internet access.
Rent was another major expense. For much of the year, Orr rented a suite in the office building at 225 Hillsborough St. in Raleigh. The building is owned by Variety Realty LLC, which is registered to conservative philanthropist Art Pope.
But Orr and other tenants had to leave after Campbell University announced plans to move its law school to the building in early October. He moved to the upper floor of the Stratas & Weathers building near Raleigh's Five Points neighborhood.
His monthly rent went from $382.71 to $2,000.
Campaign manager Dave Woolf said that rent went up because the office nearly quadrupled in size to around 2,100 square feet and now has six employees plus interns. He said the old office was temporary.
"It was virtually empty and we were just given some space to park in there," he said.
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