Civitas Seeks Investigation Of PAC | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: This post, by Alexander Guin, was originally published in the Issues section(s) of Civitas's online edition.

    RALEIGH — The Civitas Institute has called on the State Board of Elections (SBOE) to investigate the campaign reporting practices of the North Carolina Clean Energy Business Alliance (NCCEBA) PAC.

    "Our study of the campaign reports of the Alliance's PAC found a disturbing pattern of discrepancies, errors, evasions, mistakes, questionable changes, missing information, the failure to file complete and timely reports, and apparent efforts to conceal or obscure spending and contributions," said Civitas President Francis De Luca.

    Civitas' letter to SBOE Chair Joshua Howard asked the board to thoroughly investigate a pattern of disturbing reporting practices by the NCCEBA. "We cited some of these flawed reports in our letter to the board," De Luca said. "But we have found other mistakes and problems in the PAC's reports, and we suspect that's just the tip of the iceberg. The SBOE needs to promptly and vigorously probe what's really going on at the NCCEBA PAC."

    A copy of the Civitas letter to the SBOE is available here and a story on the troubled NCCEBA PAC is here.

    To arrange an interview with Civitas President Francis De Luca, call 919.834.2099 or email him at francis.deluca@nccivitas.org.

    Founded in 2005, the Civitas Institute is a Raleigh, NC-based policy organization committed to creating a North Carolina whose citizens enjoy liberty and prosperity derived from limited government, personal responsibility and civic engagement. To that end, Civitas develops and advocates for conservative policy solutions to improve the lives of all North Carolinians. Towards that end, Civitas provides research, information and training to:

• empower citizens to become better civic leaders and more informed voters;
• educate emerging public leaders, enabling them to be more effective in the democratic process; and
• inform elected officials about citizen-based, free-market solutions to problems facing North Carolinians.

    For additional information, go to www.nccivitas.org or call 919.834.2099.