Fred Smith has given $49,090 to Republican candidates and groups in the past 10 years.
According to a quick review of campaign contributions listed on Open Secrets and Follow the Money, the Republican gubernatorial candidate has been pretty generous.
As with Pat McCrory's donations, the biggest beneficiary was the state party. Between 1999 and 2007, Smith gave the party's executive committee $41,548. He's also donated $1,000 to the Republican National Committee.
The top candidate was Tony Moore, who received $4,000 for a state Senate bid in 2004.
He also gave $1,000 to Patrick Ballantine's unsuccessful bid for governor that year. And in a donation he may have come to regret, he gave $406 to Bob Orr's Supreme Court campaign in 2002.
Orr is now running against Smith for the GOP nomination for governor.
A complete list after the jump.
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Smith gave to a host of other Republican legislative candidates: $2,150 to Rep. Leo Daughtry in 1997 and 1998; and $1,000 to Adrian Arnett's bid for Senate, $1,100 to Louis M. Pate Jr.'s bid for House, $1,000 to Sen. Neal Hunt, and $250 to Rep. Tim Moore, all in 2006.
At the federal level, Smith gave to unsuccessful Republican Congressional campaigns: $2,100 to Dan Mansell in 2006, $2,000 to Billy Creech and $1,000 to Virginia Johnson in 2004; $2,000 to Doug Haynes in 2000, and $500 to Ada Fisher in 2004.
He also gave $2,000 in total to U.S. Rep. Walter Jones in 2001 and 2003.
And he gave $2,00 to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2002, $1,000 apiece to Sen. George Allen of Virginia in 2005, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina in 2004, and Sen. Richard Burr in 2004. He gave $2,000 in total to President George W. Bush in 1999 and 2000.
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