Category: Congress

#ncpol NC-07: Rouzer applauds, then runs from CSX’s JoCo land grab

Posted on January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It should not come as a shock to anyone that a politician (1) takes a position, and then (2) runs like hell from it. But doing it so blatantly –

GOPe’s espanol response to BarryO speech had a little something extra. (AMNESTY)

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Talk about shifty: There is a bigger controversy about to break wide-open that’s potentially far more significant than Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell approving Nikki Haley’s non-subtle attack on GOP

#ncpol NC-02: Duncan rolling up endorsements, hitting the airwaves

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Kay Daly promotes herself as “The New Phyllis Schlafly.” but the real Phyllis Schlafly — a conservative icon and backer of Donald Trump — is throwing her support behind another

#ncpol: Math is HARD. (Alma Adams edition)

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Roll Call had a little PR stunt ahead of BarryO’s big speech the other night. They asked several DC-area celebrities to give their thoughts on the speech — in three

#NCSEN: Moore County GOPe ALL IN for Richard Burr

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got a four-candidate primary race coming up on March 15th for the GOP nomination for US Senate. But, in some quarters, we’re being led to believe all we have

#ncsen: “Good things” about O-Care and other ,um, “wisdom” from Dick Burr

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Brant Clifton

i would hate to be Tricky Dick’s press rep. I foresee a lot of stress migraines and nights of hard drinking ahead for that individual. SOMEBODY recently let the lawnmower man

#ncpol: CYA, DC-style.

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Folks in flyover country are ANGRY. Raleigh knows it. And, apparently, DC has figured it out, too. The GOP-controlled House pushed through a bill they claimed repealed ObamaCare and defunded

#ncpol NCGOP HQ Twitter tactics raising eyebrows, drawing protest

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Larry Holmquist knows all about it. The Greensboro Republican running in the US Senate primary against Richard Burr has gone round-and-round with NCGOP HQ and Dallas Woodhouse over what could arguably

#ncpol NC-09: Theam Thillis ripping Pittenger, but giving Thom a PASS on the same offenses.

Posted on January 6, 2016January 6, 2016 by Brant Clifton

I’ve long believed that George Rouco’s primary challenge to ethically-challenged, FBI and IRS-scrutinized Robert Pittenger was the Charlotte political Mafia’s not-so-subtle way of telling ol’ Bob to get off the

#ncpol NC-02: Radio hosts weighing in GOP field for US House