VIDEO: Senator says NC campaign finance is ‘totally out of control’

NC Sen. Mary Wills Bode on a recent episode of PBS NC's "State Lines."

By Billy Ball

July 11, 2024

Recent legislation in North Carolina opened up the state for huge out-of-state spending on campaigns. A lawmaker sounds the alarm on NC campaign finance.

Sen. Mary Wills Bode, a Democrat representing NC’s Granville and Wake counties, sounded the alarm on a recent episode of PBS NC’s “State Lines” about NC campaign finance reform, after recent Republican legislation opened up the state to huge sums of spending from out-of-state.

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Billy Ball

Billy Ball is Cardinal & Pine's senior newsletter editor. He’s covered local, state, and national politics, government, education, criminal justice, the environment, and immigration in North Carolina for almost two decades. His reporting and commentary have earned state, regional, and national awards. He's also the founder of The Living South, a journalism project about the most interesting people in the American South.

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