An interesting analysis of 79th district House race and dirty dark $$ from Carolina Forward | Eastern NC Now

Carolina Forward is a liberal advocacy group.  They acknowledge that they do not agree with Keith Kidwell's conservative positions on much of anything.  Yet ever they were appalled by the way special interest dark money was spent massively to buy the 79th district seat out from under Kidwell.  They recognize that it was happening other places in North Carolina, too, but used the 79th district as their example of the excesses of special interest dark money buying public offices.  Dark money means that it is often not possible to trace where much of it really came from.  That was true of the dark money estimated between $500,000 and $800,,000 spent against Kidwell.  Their YouTube video is entitled "How Big Ag Got its Way in the NC State Legislature"

https://youtube.com/shorts/MZYhPzqn2iY?si=39hbj7xtC42WwVLE

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Of course, they do not even get into the big money spent on TV against Kidwell by the gambling industry. which out and out lied about his record on taxes in their last minute ads.