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Friday, August 08, 2008 10:41 AM Perdue draws fire for 527 group association By Matt Shaw | Times Staff Writer The Republican Governors Association criticized Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue this week for accepting the help of a Washington-based 527 group. Funds from "Alliance for North Carolina" are being used to air negative ads to boost Perdue's gubernatorial campaign, the association claimed this week. The group has also contributed money to the state's Democratic Party, "With a wink and a nod, Bev Perdue is making a mockery of North Carolina's campaign finance laws," said RGA Executive Director Nick Ayers. "On one hand she denounces the presence of outside groups and denies having any involvement with them. At the same time the Party she controls is taking huge contributions from the donors running the ads." The association called on Perdue to tell the state party to return money from Alliance's donors. Perdue's campaign has not yet responded to the criticism. dole attacks hagan campaign U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole's campaign charged her Democratic opponent with having "a secret meeting with Chicago union bosses" who are now supporting her. Kay Hagan "snuck out of North Carolina" Monday to meet with officials of the United Food and Commercial Workers and the Service Employees International Union, a Dole spokesman said Wednesday. Those unions then spent $115,000 Tuesday to buy air time for an ad attacking Dole. "Two things have become crystal clear in this election: Kay Hagan is running as a Trojan horse for big labor, rich trial lawyers and liberal Washington insiders, and she has no plan, no agenda and nothing positive to say about herself," Dan McLagan said in a statement. Dole's campaign says that "Hagan and her cronies" have spent around $576,000 on attack ads so far. Hagan blasts Dole's CAFTA votes Meanwhile, Hagan's campaign has begun a "92 Days, 92 Ways" drive, intending to illustrate ways that Dole's tenure in Congress has hurt the state. The "92" refers to the percentage of the time Dole has voted for President Bush's agenda in her first six years in Congress, including voting twice for Central America Free Trade Agreement, which expanded the NAFTA model, according to Hagan's campaign. Dole visited a textile plant in Belmont, N.C., in 2005 as an example of a plant that would benefit from CAFTA, Hagan's staff said Wednesday. That plant closed permanently in 2007. |
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