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“If you want to be an activist group, go somewhere else.”

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Brant Clifton

So sayeth a key GOP establishment figure in western North Carolina. At the September 15th meeting of the Haywood County board of commissioners, county GOP chair Patricia Carr presented a

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We are the government. We know better than you. Shut up. Sit down.

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Haywood County is a quiet little place off the beaten path in western North Carolina.  But a lively group of grassroots activists is raising a ruckus that has the political

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#NCSEN: All in the (Hagan) family

Posted on September 22, 2014September 22, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We reported about an “interesting” real estate deal involving Senate candidate Thom Tillis and some high-dollar donors to his campaign.  Now, we’ve come across something suggesting US Senator Kay Hagan’s

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#NCSEN: High Point U. poll says Hagan 42, Tillis 40, Haugh 6

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Even though Kay Hagan is on top here, this survey represents some of the best polling news in weeks for Thom Tillis. The survey — 410 likely voters from 9/13

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#NCSEN: What’s that? The OTHER shoe dropping?

Posted on September 22, 2014September 22, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve reported extensively on the interesting timing of certain people giving money to Thom Tillis’s Senate campaign and his vocal support of issues those donors care about.  We had Tillis

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#NCGA: Oh, yeah. Here’s where the gas tax money goes.

Posted on September 21, 2014September 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve posted previously about our frustration over paying an obscenely high gas tax while being told by Raleigh politicians that there is no money to maintain existing or build new

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#NCSEN: the drive-by media’s flexible definition of ‘controversial’

Posted on September 20, 2014September 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In 2008 and 2012, we were told not to worry about Barry Obama’s preachers — Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger. We’re told that Bill Barber is a credible Man

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Congress, Media
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NC STILL paying through the nose for gas. (But there’s NO MONEY for roads?)

Posted on September 20, 2014September 20, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis and Skip Stam are pushing for toll roads and lanes throughout the state — claiming that those concepts are the only way to pay for road construction and

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#NCSEN: The charge of the clothespin brigade

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Some Republicans and Tea Partiers in and around Moore County are launching a “Clothespin Challenge.”  One of the organizers posted this on her Facebook Page: All you disconcerted or apathetic voters

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCGA: Pay-to-play in living color, in your email inbox

Posted on September 19, 2014September 19, 2014 by Brant Clifton

An awful lot of Republicans here in Moore County found the item below in their email inboxes this morning: “I must raise money in order to help the Republican Caucus

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