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Newby’s banjos highlighted in national report

June 14, 2013 at 12:03 pmCategory:Uncategorized

Outside groups that spent more than $2 million in last year’s heated N.C. Supreme Court justice race were highlighted this week in a report about the increasing role of Washington money in state judicial races.

As part of an article looking at how national political funders are getting involved in local judicial races, the Center for Public Integrity focused on $1.2 million from the Republican State Leadership Council. The money flowed through to an ad featuring a banjo-strumming narrator singing about how N.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby is tough on crime, according to the report.

(Newby, of course, ended up defeating challenger Sam Ervin IV, a N.C. Court of appeal judge, in the November election.)

The Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan investigative news organization, found that “North Carolina’s Supreme Court election was arguably decided by groups like Justice for All — secretive nonprofits, unaffiliated with a candidate, whose money came from out of state,”

Newby’s campaign updates donor information

September 12, 2012 at 4:09 pmCategory:Uncategorized

by Sarah Ovaska

Here’s an update from a post I wrote Aug. 31 about N.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby’s re-election campaign.

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At the time, Newby’s campaign filled out the required profession and employer information for 15 percent of his campaign contributors, a distinction that set him apart from his opponent N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Sam Ervin and six others running for appellate seats in the non-partisan, statewide races.

The information has since been updated, and nearly all the information for 700-plus campaign donations Newby got in 2011 is now available through the N.C. Board of Elections.