LOD: The Biggest NC PACs

A series of charts and analysis by the NC FreeEnterprise Foundation provides an excellent profile of the largest PACs giving to NC General Assembly contests in 2010. PACs supplied nearly $10 million of the $33.3 million raised by legislative candidates in 2010, and they balanced their donations fairly evenly between Democrats and Republicans, in contrast to the past tilt toward Democratic incumbents. Sorted by industry, PACs in the utility and telecom business led all others, followed by the health-care sector. Progress Energy and Duke Energy ranked in the top 10 for PACs giving to legislative candidates, and their combined $591,000 would make them number 1, edging out the trial attorney’s NC Advocates for Justice. Lots of interesting material here. . . .