State legislators in North Carolina pocketed $530,000 in campaign donations in the first half of 2023 from pro-marijuana and casino industry interests as they mulled various legalization proposals, according to a new report.
The major contributions largely poured in from out of state and also from donors who have faced sanctions over unlawful drug and gambling operations, longtime money and politics expert Bob Hall, ex-director of the left-leaning watchdog Democracy North Carolina, said in a report released this week. More than half of the $530,000 came from people who have never given to any legislators in the Tar Heel State before 2022, the document noted.
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