Tag: Phil Berger

Six Degrees of Separation: Phil Berger edition

Posted on March 12, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Okay. It’s been done for Kevin Bacon. Why NOT senator Phil Berger? “The don” is still locked in a close electoral competition with Rockingham County sheriff Sam Page. Page has

Shining some sunlight on all that dark $$$ in the Page-Berger clash

Posted on March 10, 2026March 10, 2026 by Brant Clifton

This “Committee,” and THAT “Committee.” “Citizens for” THIS and “Citizens for” THAT. Voters in the recently completed GOP primary for state senate district 26 likely got buried in more mailings

Report offers peek at NC Senate GOP’s lobbyist / Berger -flavored fundraising scheme

Posted on March 9, 2026March 9, 2026 by Brant Clifton

There was a lotta special interest cash floating around the recently-completed party primaries. A lot of it had connections to Phil Berger as well as interests with business before Berger’s

State election board’s bull-in-a-china-shop exits stage right

Posted on March 7, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Before the nation was captivated by Donald Trump’s blunt talk, North Carolina had state senator Bob Rucho. Rucho wasn’t exactly a doctrinaire conservative. He left us scratching our collective heads

Sam Page widens lead over Phil Berger. (Panic / reality set in for Raleigh swamp-dwellers. )

Posted on March 6, 2026March 6, 2026 by Brant Clifton

They threw everything but the kitchen sink at sheriff Sam Page. They outspent him 100-to-1. But when the smoke cleared, the grassroots-powered Page campaign came out on top of incumbent

Even More Page-Berger aftershocks, fallout

Posted on March 5, 2026 by Brant Clifton

For the Berger machine, Rockingham County keeps delivering the hits. Not only did senator Phil Berger – the capo di tutti – come up short at the end of Tuesday,

The Ides of March

Posted on March 4, 2026 by Brant Clifton

We have an open US Senate seat at a time Republicans are trying to hold onto a slim majority in that chamber. Yet, the political universe is beside itself over

Gambling industry meddling in NC primaries?

Posted on February 24, 2026 by Brant Clifton

It’s looking that way. You may remember that we had quite a hullabaloo in the NC General Assembly about establishing new casinos outside Indian territory across North Carolina. It’s been

End of The Gravy Train? Jones St. mob summoned to Rockingham County to save don Berger-ino

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Word hit the streets of Rockingham County early in the week. Folks who had been feasting – and otherwise living well — during the president pro tem Berger era were

The NY Times notices Phil Berger. (EVEN THEY think he’s in trouble.)

Posted on February 11, 2026February 11, 2026 by Brant Clifton

Who’da thunk one of 50 state Senate races in North Carolina would overshadow the race to fill our soon-to-be vacant US Senate seat in the eyes of the national legacy