Category: Ted Budd

No Troops. No ESG. No Comment. No Dice. (Have you met Ted?)

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I can now say that I HAVE met Ted. Budd, that is. Our paths crossed at an event in Sanford Friday night. I have to hand it to him. Budd

Tillis, Budd team up to grow the welfare state

Posted on February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Indian reservations have arguably outlived their usefulness. They did some good amid the turmoil of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But nowadays, Indian reservations and related programs do

FTX to sue pols, PACs to recover stolen money

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Brant Clifton

How delicious and delightful. Thievery and skullduggery DO actually – on occasion – have consequences, folks. Sam Bankman Fried and his cronies that used to run cryptocurrency giant FTX stand

Spending cuts BEFORE debt ceiling increase: Budd says YES. (NO Comment from Tillis.)

Posted on January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s good to see our new senator siding with the likes of Mike Lee (R-Utah): Twenty-four Republican senators have signed a letter to President Joe Biden stating their opposition to raising

Ted Budd’s chief of staff a recent alum of Pfizer, alleged home of “COVID cash cow”

Posted on January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Our junior US senator has been maintaining quite a low profile on Capitol Hill since winning the November 2022 election and getting sworn in. But Project Veritas’s release of a

From DPI to Team Budd

Posted on December 22, 2022 by Brant Clifton

He’s back. When we last saw Catherine Truitt’s predecessor at NC DPI, Mark Johnson, he was quitting his post to make a quixotic run for lieutenant governor. (Johnson finished third

Team Budd starts to assemble

Posted on December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 by Brant Clifton

We got an interesting release today detailing our senator-elect’s first two hires. A guy named Tucker Knott will be chief of staff, while a guy named Chad Yelinski will

Even More FTX $$$$ in NC: Cui Bono?

Posted on November 18, 2022November 18, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Who benefits? I want to start off with a hearty welcome to the fray for young Colon Campbell, formerly of The N&O’s men’s room beat and now the editor

FTX bitcoin scandal money ALL OVER North Carolina politics

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Brant Clifton

The FTX bitcoin “Case of the disappearing $2 billion” is just the kind of scandal Thom Tillis likes: bipartisan. We’re finding that SIX of the sixteen members of

Sippin’ on that Tillis kool-aid

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Check out this quote in DC’s The Hill newspaper: […]“North Carolina is a true purple state. Thirty percent of our voters are registered Republicans, 34 [percent] are registered as Democrats,