From today’s Charlotte Observer:
WASHINGTON —
N.C. elections officials are investigating whether a national Democratic campaign organization with ties to Jim Black violated the state’s ban on corporate donations.

Investigators are looking at donations by individuals and N.C. corporations to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. That’s a national group that works to get Democrats elected to statehouses around the nation. The committee has given more than $750,000 to the N.C. Democratic Party since 2004.
At issue: Did the money the group routed to North Carolina come only from individuals? Or did it include corporate money, in violation of N.C. law?
Read the entire article here.
Groups like the DLCC have risen in power and prominence in the years since federal campaign finance reform was passed and signed into law in 2002, and states like North Carolina have struggled to keep up with these new political committees and their methods of organization. Articles like this are never fun, but the lawyers for committees like the DLCC love them because of all of the great billable hours that get racked up crafting responses for their clients.
Enjoy and feel free to opine what you think should happen out in the states.