A Berger-spawned RINO roars, thumbs his nose at the base. (Uncle Phil is pleased.)
Recent alums of Phil Berger’s legislative staff are now calling the shots in the state auditor’s office.
We’ve all witnessed the havoc Berger’s Jones Street team has played with conservative initiatives. One can only imagine the shenanigans we’re going to see in the newly-recaptured state auditor’s office.
Chapel Hill Republican Bradford Paisley Briner IV is starting to turn some heads. And not in a good way.
He. like Dave Boliek, was recruited to run for office, and had his campaign managed, by Jim Blaine (Phil Berger‘s political right-hand). In addition to running and owning these two new *Republican* additions to the Council of State, Berger also *owns* the state legislature and the state GOP operation. So, keeping an eye on all those things will reveal a lot of clues where he and his crew want to take this party.
So far, what we’re seeing from Briner is not promising:
To add to that, let’s look at the agenda for a recent state health plan board of trustees meeting. (As treasurer, Briner oversees the health plan for state employees.) Check out the second to the last paragraph in the linked image below:
Phasing out the Clear Pricing Project (CPP) as *cost savings*? The CPP is about transparency — making providers share how much they are charging the state and its health plan users.
CPP IS COST-SAVINGS. It’s been a fantastic anti-gouging weapon.
*Imagine hiring someone and then having to just accept WHATEVER they demand you pay them.* 
It was put in place by former treasurer Dale Folwell and the big hospitals with the pockets stuffed with cash HATE IT.
The hospital lobby and their cabal of bought-and-paid-for legislators fought Folwell every step of the way on the CPP. Now that Folwell is out and enjoying retirement and a much more controllable Briner is in place, the special-interest-cash-gobbling legislative *leadership* is home free to do whatever it wants.
And it WANTS to please the hospital lobbyists and gobble up some more Benjamin$. (None of us can pay them anywhere near what the lobbyists can. And for the Jones Street Mob, getting *PAID* is job numero uno.)
Briner is yet another piece of evidence you folks in Rockingham County need to look long and hard at before you cast your vote for state senator in 2026. You can do a tremendous service for the whole state by retiring Phil Berger. He no longer gives a hoot about public service. It’s self-service for him. It’s about stomping the guts out of limited-government conservatism while rewarding cronies and family.
Once he’s gone, you won’t be represented by the senate president pro tem anymore. Someone else will get that job. But you will have a senator – Sam Page – you know and can trust. You’ll be trading a self-serving political hack for an honest-to-goodness public servant. There aren’t many of us out here who can claim to be repped by an honest-to-goodness public servant.
Briner is an Undocumented Democrat. He was an Unaffiliated who voted in Democrat primaries until shortly before deciding to run as a “Republican”. for state treasurer. Briner also used to work for globalist kingpin and major gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg. It is not surprising that he supports far left
DEI, something that Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon of the Beatles says stands for “Dumb Evil Idiots”..
A new study just revealed that the Biden regime spent a Trillion dollars promoting this Marxist and racist DEI scam bu fake “Republican” Briner wants to contirnue it at the same time that President Trump is driving a stake through the heart of this monster.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-study-reveals-staggering-scope-of-how-much-dei-was-infused-into-government-under-biden
Briner is a fake “Republican” and so is Boss Hogg Berger.. Will our current state GOP chairman have the backbone to call the State ExCom into session to deal with the party disloyalty charges now pending against Berger or will he cowardly try to punt to cover up for Berger? If he covers for Berger, he needs to be run out of office on a rail.
Briner is Nancy Pelosi without the skirt.
Of course Briner is a leftist. He worked for Bloomberg and was a Democrat, much like Boliek was right before filing. Briner supported BLM and was likely a Mitt Romney fanboy. And the whole Berger clan is corrupt and that’s how we end up with these clowns as the handpicked “choices.”We all know it to be true so why even pretend anymore?
State employees and retirees expecting 23% or more increase in premiums thanks to our liberal treasurer.
We’ve LOST the COS for 4Y, that’s a given.
WE CANNOT EVER allow this to happen again.
Mark at the top of the ticket destroyed it. And with leaders like Phil, what can we expect? THE same as in the past.
REQUIRED: state convention changes.
CANDIDATES: fully vetted by grassroots REPUBLICANS/CONSERVATIVES.
2026 cannot be emphasized enough for COS. 2024 for Tillis.
We are now stuck with liberal policies, starting at the top with Stein.
NC reps are worthless: Murphy, Foxx and the lot of them.
NC has the worst slate of candidates now serving that I can ever remember calling themselves republicans/conservatives. Jesse would spew them out of his mouth.
Just the beginning what will occur over the next 4Y.
Local newspapers are now a rarity in Eastern NC. Those that do exist are useless in providing news about how our elected representatives vote. Some of us watch the voting patterns of NC representatives (and Senators). If the voters could see the voting patterns and the frequency that our elected “Republicans” vote with the Democrats, there would be new faces representing many NC districts. Basically, the Republicans of NC currently have no voice in legislative decisions because the whole group are RINOs. If someone could come up with information specific to local representatives voting patterns undoubtedly there would be primary challenges for change. Democrats have no problems with solidarity. They vote as a party and there is little deviation from their votes. Republicans seem to have no regard for party solidarity. They seem to vote on how they personally feel. Our own NC representatives are good examples of the party disunity. Elections are but a year away. Local GOP groups, please look at the voting records of the incumbents and if they consistently vote Democrat, then replace them.
The problem is that the RINO leadership in Raleigh has adopted the Liston Ramsey / Mark Basnight top – down method of operating. They have become dictators, power bullies that have absolute control of what happens in the legislature. They direct the special interests to fund campaign accounts they control rather than giving mostly to individual legislators and tell the special interests that if they want something to come to the leadership not individual legislators. They have usurped legislative candidate recruitment from the party organization and do it themselves to put flunkies in office who will listen to the Raleigh “leadership” instead of their constituents. This is a corrupt and disgusing system.
Local party organizations need to do their own legislative candidate recruitment and challenge the “leadership’s” sock puppets. Sadly we have had too many state GOP chairmen like Michael Whatley who have been lazy enough to just let the “leadership” handle this to take the responsibility off of him. It used to be that the NCGOP chairman played the central role in legislative candidate recruitment, using the party network of district and county chairmen and the legislative leaders were bit players at best. Because that system worked through local parties, we tended to get the right sort of legislators. Now we too often get people willing to be rubber stamps for power bully “leaders”.
To make matters worse, our leadership has gone full RINO, pushing too many of the Democrats’ legislative goals like the Green New Deal, the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, and letting biological males into women’s restrooms and locker rooms.
Leaders have become so arrogant that they thumb their noses at party loyalty. Look at Phil-atio Berger openly endorsing a liberal Democrat judge against a Republican challenger. Berger is now up on charges before the state ExCom for that but it looks like we have a state chairman who has a backbone of mush who will stall to cover for him. DISGUSTING.
The NCGOP is an embarrassment to every single Conservative in the State of NC. They support RINOs. I propose that we change the NCGOP name to NC Herd of RINOS.
Look at how they have treated true conservatives, Treasurer Folwell and Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey.
They should be ashamed but they are not. They saddle up with ANYONE that brings money to the table.
The Guilford GOP leadership would not pass the resolution to censure Phil Berger in the clearcut case of Party Disloyalty, of course, so it was brought up on the floor of the Guilford Co GOP Convention today. It needed 2/3rds of the delegates to pass.
I’m told about half of the Guilford delegates stood to censure King Berger – in his own county! ? Love it.