It’s official: Rep. Mark Hilton (R-Conover) will not be seeking reelection to the state House. The Hickory Daily Record has the story: State Rep. Mark Hilton, R-96 District, will not seek another term in…
L’affaire Laroque claims a victim?
Category: NC legislature
Key player in L’affaire LaRoque wavering on re-election bid?
A Republican legislator who got a taxpayer-financed loan from embattled state Rep. Stephen LaRoque is being rather coy about whether he will seek re-election to his seat in the state House. The Hickory Daily Record…
Indictment of Boss Bev cronies is like deja vu all over again …
If I talked to you about a governor with cronies laundering money to sidestep campaign finance laws, you’d think I was talking about Mike Easley. We went through a whole soap opera about ol’ Mike, a made-up job for…
NC gas tax cap races through state House (Speed bump awaits in Senate)
The conservative majority in the North Carolina General Assembly’s lower chamber did its duty and overwhelmingly approved, on Monday, legislation to hold the current state gas tax at 35 cents per gallon and put off a…
Civitas: Pinehurst’s Blake is NC Senate’s top conservative
According to NC Civitas, a Raleigh-based conservative think tank, Senator Harris Blake (R-Pinehurst) is wrapping up this session at the top of the class, with a perfect conservative voting record. Blake topped all 50 Senators with a…
Public defenders stick up for ‘Racial Justice’ …
Just days after North Carolina’s prosecutors formally seek an end to the travesty called ‘The Racial Justice Act’, the state’s public defenders are speaking up. The N&O had the story: Public defenders are…
Let the scare tactics begin …
When liberals realize they can’t win a debate on the issues, they almost always turn to the scare tactics. Lyndon Johnson got the ball rolling in 1964 against Barry Goldwater, running ads depicting Barry Goldwater as…
Put up or shut up time for NCGOP
There are a number of developments brewing in Raleigh that will tell volumes about whether North Carolina made a wise investment in the Republican Party last November: 1) Ethics: There has been a steady drip-drip-drip…
GOP legislators seek business POV; Dems & Media cry FOUL
Boy, it really turns my world upside down to see something published by The N&O staff complaining about not including both sides of a story. Until recently, I thought “fracking” was only an epithet used by characters on Battlestar Galactica.…
Surprise! Media, Dems demagogued NC state budget cuts.
Boss Bev, legislative Dems, and their hench-persons in North Carolina’s alleged mainstream media (MSM) tried to tell us THE SKY WOULD FALL if budget cuts pushed by GOP legislators were to pass. Well, the budget cuts…