July 4, 2024
Finance

Cooper vetoes bill to target protesters, change masking rules, loosen campaign finance

Calling it an attempt to let billionaires buy the state’s elections, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a wide-ranging bill Friday that would change the rules for campaign finance laws as well as the laws for wearing masks in public, while also subjecting protesters to additional criminal and civil penalties. Cooper’s veto message didn’t address the part

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Finance

Like Trump, NC politicians have history of campaign finance violations

Until Thursday — when jurors in New York found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts in a hush-money campaign finance trial — no U.S. president had ever been convicted of even one felony. But history shows Trump is not entirely unique; prosecutors have long gone after politicians over campaign finance violations, and

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