Category: campaign 2019

Report: Pay-to-play, the Jason Saine way.

Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 by Brant Clifton

A non-profit watchdog that has bedeviled Speaker Timmy in recent months and years has now set its sights on a certain tubby little parasite from Lincoln County. The Campaign

NC-03: Allen gets audited. (And it wasn’t pretty.)

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Audits are never fun. It’s not fun when the IRS shows up to do it. When you’re involved with the state government, it’s no fun when Beth Wood and

NC-03: Early Voting Update (through 4-20)

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Here’s what we have, thanks to Civitas: 11,725 total votes Republicans outpacing Democrats by about a 1000 About 500 more women than men (total) Majority of voters

#NC-09: STILL no campaign report! (Where is it?)

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The chuckleheads in Raleigh have been standing in a circle for months now patting themselves on the back for — in their minds — eradicating vote fraud

NC-03 Money Talk (Part III) : Cox, Perry, Shepard, Speciale

Posted on April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 by Brant Clifton

We’ve already given you the rundown on Nix, Law, DeLuca, Clark and Rouse in Part I. Then came Part II with the 411 on Moore, Boyd, Cairns and

NC-09: Bishop gets Club For Growth nod

Posted on April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 by Brant Clifton

So, I guess that other IE was for “opposing” Stony Rushing. The Club For Growth threw us for a loop with their endorsement in the Third Congressional District.

NC-03: Mike Speciale on Grass Roots NC, in his own words ….

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Brant Clifton

There’s been a lot of talk about Grass Roots NC’s “recommendation” of Michael Speciale in the Third Congressional District congressional race. It will be interesting to see how intensely

NC-03: Even More questions about that GRNC “recommendation”

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I know, for tax purposes, you can’t say “endorsement” — even though THAT is exactly what it looks like is going on here. In a previous post, we raised

NC-09: Leigh Brown. The story keeps getting, um, “better.”

Posted on April 19, 2019April 19, 2019 by Brant Clifton

She tried to run for governor as an independent in 2012. She primaried state legislator (and conservative stalwart) Larry Pittman in 2014. In 2015, she donated cash to

NC-03: About that Grass Roots NC endorsement / recommendation ….