Cleanup: Elections and lawyer ads
Yesterday I wrapped up a few details regarding ads aired by Attorney General candidate Bob Crumley's law firm. The SBOE ruled those ads constituted election speech and said he should cut them out, which he has.
A couple more loose ends to tie up here:
Rep. Bill Faison is in the same sort of business as Crumley and similarly has appeared in advertisements for his law firm.
The NC Republican Party has complained about those ads to the SBOE and the SBOE has written Faison to alert him to their rulings.
Click here for a PDF that has the complaint from the GOP and the SBOE's letter to Faison. Sorry, I haven't been able to find any video of the ads and have never seen on of Faison's on the television - I guess I don't watch enough daytime TV.
I also heard from Kim Westbrook Strach, an SBOE official who handles campaign finance matters and who was unavailable last week. She pointed to quotes in Monday's newspaper story from Crumley that suggested the sitting Attorney General, Roy Cooper, had been advising the SBOE on this matter. Strach said that the SBOE had separate council from the AG's office precisely because of the potential conflict.
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