The six-figure salaried frat boys at NCGOP HQ are already taking to social media to try and make lemonade out of Tuesday’s lemons: Let’s see. When Dallas The Boy Wonder and his Grandpa got installed via coup at NCGOP HQ…
Category: NC legislature
A post-mortem on Tuesday. (Look, Ma. We’re goin’ backwards.)
For Republicans and conservatives across North Carolina, there was not a whole lot to cheer about Tuesday night. Our side got out-hustled, out-strategized, out-raised, out-marketed. *Out-EVERYTHINGED.* To satisfy the folks who have been nagging me all morning via text and…
#ncga: The (NC House) $$$ chase thus far …
Whoever has the most money is not always the best indicator of who will come out on top when the smoke clears at the end of election day. Factors like name ID, various local issues, and the proportion of local…
Advice for Tuesday …
We’ve been bombarded with questions from folks seeking recommendations about who to vote for on Tuesday. Here’s the sample ballot from my neck of the woods. It features local races that are important to Moore County residents, but no one…
Democrats filling NC Senate GOP campaign coffers
He was one of the key money men behind a PAC that helped knock off a conservative legislator and facilitate a leftist takeover of Lee County a few years ago. Now, Kirk Bradley — a Democrat registered to vote in…
Key figure in Easley scandals cuts big check to NC Senate GOPers
A name that popped up a lot amid reporting on scandals surrounding then-governor Mike Easley is now popping up on a state Republican campaign report. There was the issue of NC State University hiring then-First Lady Mary Easley. And there…
NC PolicyWatch tries to burn Folwell over Cowell’s sleight-of-hand
Chris Fitzsimon’s comedy team never passes up an opportunity to spit the word ‘BIGOT’ at a conservative. This time, the lucky recipient of Team Chris’s golden spittle is state treasurer Dale Folwell: […] In 2017, as the family planned Connor’s…
#ncga: $peaker Timmy, very expen$ive. (And under review?)
Yes, it’s becoming more and more clear that the leader of the “conservative revolution” is making a KILLING off of the taxpayers. Here’s the latest: Seven months ago, we began investigating a series of questions surrounding Tim Moore, the powerful…
#ncga: Smearing Mr. Bishop.
State senator Dan Bishop (R-Mecklenburg) is one of the nicest, most integrity-laden politicians we know of in contemporary North Carolina politics. That’s why the hit piece from the UK Daily Mail — normally a trustworthy conservative news source — threw…
#ncga: Steinburg basketball tourney ONE HOT MESS
Once again, we have mail. We’ve covered state Rep. Bob Steinburg’s venture into sports promotion — funded by Currituck County tax dollars — pretty extensively. This time we have a series of emails between officials at the Asheville Civic Center…