{"id":158510,"date":"2026-01-31T01:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=158510"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:16:18","slug":"republican-judicial-candidate-in-nc-caught-illegally-accepting-contributions-from-lobbyist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=158510","title":{"rendered":"Republican Judicial Candidate in NC Caught Illegally Accepting Contributions from Lobbyist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article314304398.html?link_source=ta_first_comment&amp;taid=696d6d09f2ab3b0001c53198&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawPg1BZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFKRnFGTjB3SmxDdWRSMUZ2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHtDYnNoxnZgAGrQ-Xbvko3cfKgj_JTcA25_Ymt8GnaNMcQ_oLLb86Mdda19V_aem_sVzAfFKuZHBP0XS07Gr-WA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News &amp; Observer<\/a>: &#8220;The North Carolina State Board of Elections sent a warning letter last week to state Rep. Sarah Stevens, the Republican candidate for Supreme Court, after she was accused of violating the law by accepting campaign contributions from two lobbyists. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">As a member of the General Assembly in June 2025, Rep. Sarah Stevens and (her campaign committee) were prohibited from receiving contributions from registered lobbyists,\u201d the letter, addressed to Stevens\u2019 campaign treasurer, said. \u201cPlease be advised of this limitation and take proper precautions to prevent any violations of North Carolina\u2019s campaign finance laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News &amp; Observer: &#8220;The North Carolina State Board of Elections sent a warning letter last week to state Rep. Sarah Stevens, the Republican candidate for Supreme Court, after she was accused of violating the law by accepting campaign contributions from two lobbyists. \u201c As a member of the General Assembly in June 2025, Rep. Sarah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158511,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158510\/revisions\/158511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}