Perdue raised $17.8m by end of '08

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on January 14, 2009 - 9:52am.
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Gov. Beverly Perdue raised $17.8 million for her campaign.

According to the final campaign finance report filed with the State Board of Elections, Perdue raised $2.4 million from Oct. 19 to the end of the year. 

Her biggest donors that quarter included Pfizer Vice President Marcus Abrams, Brody's owner Hyman Brody, SAS Institute CEO Jim Goodnight, Fortress Investment Group managing director Michael Malone, SMI Motorsports vice president Marcus Smith.

She also received major donations from the Communications Workers of America, Planned Parenthood of Central N.C., the Conservation Council of N.C., the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and PACs for Pfizer, GE, chiropractors and certified public accountants.

Other donations from the campaigns of state Reps. Jim Harrell and Bruce Goforth and Congressman Heath Shuler, among others.

Perdue also spent $17.7 million on her campaign.

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Re: Perdue raised $17.8m by end of '08

Submitted by ThoughtCrimes on January 14, 2009 - 1:13pm.

I'm so glad that we're getting change! I thought the Republicrats were s'posed to be the party of Big-Bad-Business? Seems like Bev has made some very rich friends! Is it still called prostitution if a person-of-questionable moral character is hired by others to pork US?

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