Diana London is arguably state Rep. Bob Steinburg’s closest adviser. She is his top legislative assistant in Raleigh. She also calls a lot of the shots on his current campaign for state Senate. In late May, London was indicted by…
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#ncpol: FlipNC leftists struggling to get off the ground?
They’ve got a nice website. They look pretty organized. But, if money is the milk of politics, Soros-linked Indivisible FlipNC looks to be pretty thirsty. This leftist group is dedicated to returning the General Assembly to Democrat control. It’s interesting…
Solar goons a wee-bit cash-poor through Q2 2018
Things appear to be a little tight for the folks who specialize in lining politician pockets so that said politicians will give them lots of taxpayer money to buy and play with solar panels and windmills. These folks don’t appear…
Gas taxes: We’re #10! (nationally)
As campaign season gears up, we’re hearing all about this tax being cut and that tax being cut. But one place we can’t seem to get any relief is at the gas pump. According to the Tax Foundation, North Carolina…
Lobbying firm behind dark money PAC promoting GOP House candidates?
Ward and Smith, as a firm, is one of the big-dog legal players in North Carolina. The New Bern-based firm is well-known in the legislative building on Raleigh’s Jones Street for its “government relations” work. Mailers from something called “The…
N&O P.O.S. kicks a dead man’s corpse
WRAL political reporter Mark Binker passed away in 2017. During his career. We begged to differ with a lot of his output. In our opinion, Mark regularly abused the freedoms granted him under the First Amendment. We gave him pure…
#ncga SD-25: Lexo strikes back. McInnis, confused. Dallas practicing law without a license. (Film at 11.)
Just four months in front of an election, it sounds like things are not so hunky-dory and lovey-dovey here in the Sandhills: Demonstrating just how rankled local Republicans still are over the ugly state Senate primary this past spring, defeated…
Speaking of Socialism …
The s-word appears to be the popular buzzword this campaign season for GOPe types. We’re eight years into state government’s alleged conservative revolution. State government keeps spending more and more. We’re subsidizing solar panels and windmills. Even MORE money is…
#ncga: Shouting “socialism” in a rubber room
You can tell election time is getting close. State Rep. Bob Steinburg and his team are revving up the whisper & slander machine that so effectively eviscerated primary opponent Clark Twiddy. It’s almost funny to see how Ol’ Bob transitions…
#ncga: Changing the rules at the last minute. Heading to court.
So, we’ve got two different cases of the majority on Jones Street changing the rules governing this year’s elections at the last minute. Both cases appear to be headed toward becoming COURT CASES. First, we have the state Supreme Court…