Art Pope

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About
Art Pope is a wealthy Americonservative business owner in North Carolina, and a strong advocate and supporter of free market libertarian ideology.

He was appointed director of the Office of State Budget and Management by state Governor Pat McCrory after the Americon takeover of the state government in 2013.

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Projects

 * Art Pope Exposed: a project of the Institute for Southern Studies
 * investigations

to file

 * 2013-06-14 This Is What a Multimillionaire Calling In His Chits Looks Like: Pope essentially ordered the death of NC's Public Campaign Fund after Republican representative Jonathan Jordan introduced a compromise to allow it to continue.
 * 2012-11-07 The real winner last night in North Carolina "The chain store magnate and failed politician of the last century has clearly become the single most powerful figure in the North Carolina political world of the early 21st Century. Through the steady application of boatloads of cash and an incessant drumbeat of fear-based messaging from a multi-tentacled propaganda machine, Pope has emerged as the state’s de facto boss."