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Viewers who were overwhelmed by television ads in 2014 should brace themselves for 2016, when many more high-profiles races will be on the ballot. But don't expect to know much more about who is bankrolling those ads.
Mark Binker
A flurry of last-minute spending by independent groups may have helped some candidates cross the electoral finish line and may have helped finish off one incumbent.
The N.C. Democratic Party says Carolina Rising, a group that backs Republican candidates, has violated federal and state fundraising laws. The group's director calls the complaint "laughable."
Candidates have to chase dollars even as they chase votes this fall, as they brace for an election year made all the more expensive by non-candidate spending. Meanwhile, voters and watchdogs find themselves without hard data to show who is giving until late October.
Between candidates and outside spenders, more than 14,000 separate broadcast ads about the U.S. Senate races have run in North Carolina since Jan. 1.
Blue Cross Blue Shield, the SAS Institute, Koch Industries and other corporations fueled a pair of independent spending efforts that could knock Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson out of her re-election race in the primary.
Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson says she's being unfairly tarred as sympathetic to child molesters in a new attack ad funded by business groups.
Two senior aids for House Speaker Thom Tillis resigned after affairs with lobbyists came to light in 2012. A Democratic super PAC is spending $1 million to air a commercial featuring the episode.
