Raleigh swamp tries to buy OUR state senate seat with Brinson | Eastern NC Now

One overwhelming issue has emerged in our 3rd Senate district state senate race (Beaufort, Craven, Lenoir):   Will voters allow the Raleigh swamp establishment around swampy senate boss Phil Berger to impose its candidate or our district, or will we elect someone who will actually represent people in this district?

If elected to the legislature, state senate candidate Bob Brinson would owe his political soul to one man - liberal Republican state senate boss Phil Berger - according to recently posted campaign finance reports.  It was reported early in the race that Berger was twisting arms of senators loyal to him to send money to Brinson, and 12 responded, all sending Brinson the maximum of $6,400 each. That represents 56.5% of all campaign money Brinson has raised, a total of $76,800.

That does not include the cost of muliple postcards mailed into the district by dark money groups run by Berger political operatives called "Restore NC" and "Neighbors Helping North Carolina", That adds many thousands more spending on behalf of Brinson attributable to Berger.

Berger's team was also working the special interest PACs for Brinson.  Five PACs sent money directly to Brinson for a total of $8,450 or 6.25% of Brinson's fundraising receipts.  There are no records to tell how much PAC money went into the dark money postcard mailings.

Overall, over 72% of Brinson's campaign money came from outside the district, when one looks at all reported contributions, but even that does not include the dark money spending on postcards.. So the out of district money going into Brinson's campaign, if that dark money is included would be an overwhelming majority of it.

https://cf.ncsbe.gov/CFOrgLkup/ReportDetail/?RID=214384&TP=REC