At least one should. As Dome reports,

Handling direct mail will be Pete Giangreco for the Strategy Group in Chicago. He has worked a number of presidential campaigns including Obama, John Kerry, John Edwards and Bill Clinton.

And Mike Easley, as Paul Chesser recounted for Carolina Journal Online not too long ago. When then-Attorney General Easley was prepping for his first campaign for governor,

A slick, glossy brochure with direct mail capability was created for the predatory lending education initiative, but DOJ?s expenditure for its printing went suspiciously to a company in Chicago: Service Web Offset Corporation. Why a printer in the far-away Midwest?

My phone call in 2000 to the company?s Dick Stolfa revealed the answer. He said a local Democratic political advertising company (with a direct mail emphasis) called The Strategy Group Inc. produced the consumer alert brochures.

?I know it came from The Strategy Group. There?s no question about that,? Stolfa said. He characterized the flyer as ?a political piece for him to run for governor.?

I then contacted The Strategy Group and Peter Giangreco, a partner with the firm who would work on all of Easley?s gubernatorial campaigns, but he denied knowing anything about the public service announcements.

?No, we haven?t done anything for the attorney general?s office,? Giangreco said. ?We?ve worked on his campaign ? that?s what we do: we work on campaigns.?

A bulk mail identifier on the brochure included the initials ?SGI.?

Easley?s campaign later (in 2000) formally used The Strategy Group for his political advertisements, paying them more than $115,000 for consulting and mailer production.

Meanwhile, Stolfa noted the oddity of his work for Easley and Giangreco. He said he printed 50,000 brochures from the artwork he received from The Strategy Group and billed the N.C. Department of Justice. Stolfa said that was odd; he usually billed The Strategy Group for all printing work.

In other words, the group handling direct mail for Cunningham is the same group that prepared campaign materials at taxpayer expense for Easley. Current Attorney General Roy Cooper never dealt with this matter.

BONUS OBSERVATION: The same Dome story says Cunningham’s PR will be handled by Murphy Putnam Media, whose clients have included … Roy Cooper.