May 10 2008
Dan Blue-D (NC 33rd House) is beholden to PAC’s special interests
Dan Blue has received most of his campaign money from special interest PAC’s to include ElectriCities $1000 and Time Warner Cable $250. You can go to the State Board of Elections site and look under Campaign Finance. One has to wonder where his interests really are. There is a nice multi-page post on ElectriCities and all of the corruption and mismanagement allegations surrounding it on the blog Talking about Politics. And I am glad to see that Dan is receiving support from another multi-billion dollar conglomerate. Will Dan Blue also vote to give millions in tax exemptions to TWC as he has done with Google, Bridgestone, and Goodyear?
Jesse Tilton has his 15 lobbyists making a mad dash to the legislature “to do some splaining” and to try to recover from complaint calls about PAC checks and rate increases. So we need to counter.
Main number to reach legislators 919-733-4111
Some details
$1000
Dan Blue D, Wake County, lobbied for ElectriCities, then back in legislature, pushed a bill to his committee to take care of his former client - no electric cities in his district
Hugh Holloman D, Lexington, majority leader
Martin Nesbitt D, Asheville, no electric cities
Rick Glazier D Fayetteville, worked with Dan Blue to push bill to committee, his city is not a power agency city with debt or rate increase
Tony Rand D, Fayetteville
David Hoyle D, Gastonia
Fred Steen R, pushing the moratorium on annexation bill so on one hand against cities and on other for cities.
Joe Hackney D, no electric cities
Karen Ray R
Mark Basnight D
Bill Owens D
Phil Berger R, no electric cities
$500
Jeff Barnhart R
Laura Wiley R
David Weinstein R
Edgar Starnes R
Larry Shaw D
Jim Harrell D, no electric cities
Katie Dorsett D
Bill Purcell D