Notes from Google Alerts: Neal and Hagan
From the Google news alert service regarding the front-running U.S. Senate candidates:
- * Southern Political Report says incumbents rules in campaign fundraising - shock! "Democrats are beginning to raise significant funds in North Carolina, where the GOP's US Sen. Elizabeth Dole had just under $2.7 million on hand, not as impressive as one might expect for the former chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. In the Democratic contest to oppose Dole, state Sen. Kay Hagan has much more cash on hand than investment banker Jim Neal, $516,000 to $139,000."
- * Bay Area Report: Neal will be on the west coast for a fundraiser. Neal tells the paper he opposes DOMA but would back civil unions.
"I think that the federal government and the state has no right discriminating against anybody on any basis, period. Churches are free to marry whomever they want to, they enjoy that right as non-secular institution," said Neal. "But the state has no business. Clearly, DOMA I think usurps the constitution's full faith and credit clause."