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#ncga: WHAT in tarnation did Kelly Hastings do to his desk?

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Brant Clifton

While so many of us Jones Street watchers are preoccupied with the big health story, I believe there is one hell of a story (with an even better BACK-STORY)

#ncga: Kelly Hastings, losing it?

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Brant Clifton

We may be talking figuratively AND literally here. (More than just a primary election…) Long-time readers of this site may be familiar with state Rep. Kelly Hastings — who works

Kelly Hastings’s 2015 campaign reports: So, um, nice, they got filed THRICE!

Posted on April 6, 2018April 6, 2018 by Brant Clifton

I for one am not comforted by guys and gals, charged with making important dollars-and-cents decisions for our state, struggling with properly filling out their campaign finance reports. (Looking at

#ncga: Kelly Hastings and his campaign finances. (SIGH)

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Brant Clifton

We’ve reported at length on state Rep. Kelly Hastings and the, um, adventurous style with which he manages his campaign finances. His year-end 2017 report is living up to the

#ncpol: Kelly Hastings’s head EXPLODES.

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Brant Clifton

That Svengali of campaign finance is convinced they’re out to get him: What’s he talking about? WHO is he talking about? He’s talking about Charlene High, his first-ever GOP challenger

#ncga: A primary for Kelly Hastings

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Brant Clifton

He’s played games with his campaign fund — paying himself, paying family. He’s taken a walk on key votes in the House. He’s hung so close to leadership (i.e., Speaker

#ncga: Kelly Hastings. No opponents. But STILL paying himself from campaign funds.

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Brant Clifton

You would THINK that the current predicament Fletcher Hartsell finds himself in would be making some folks on Jones Street think a little harder before they act. But apparently THAT

#ncga: Naming Names. (Jason Saine, Kelly Hastings, Tom James … )

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

On the face of it, H1042 looks like good policy. It appears to require candidates for office to account for EVERY DIME their campaign takes in. If a person gives

#ncga: More FUN with Kelly Hastings’s campaign finance reports

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Talk about a piece of work. This Cherryville lawmaker is clearly living off his campaign fund — stocked by special interests — and he doesn’t seem to care who knows it.

Kelly v. Dallas: You say REFUND, I say PARTY CONTRIBUTION.

Posted on May 28, 2018May 28, 2018 by Brant Clifton

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” — Cool Hand Luke, 1967 ________ I guess it is all in the eye of the B.S. artist. In an earlier post,