Category: campaign 2014

#NCSEN: If you pay him, he will come.

Posted on February 7, 2014February 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate

NC-02: Ellmers STILL campaigning on the taxpayer dime

Posted on February 6, 2014February 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

On the last day of January, we told you about congresswoman Renee Ellmers’ taxpayer-funded constituent mailings that bear a striking resemblance to campaign literature — stuff that is not supposed

O-Care: Lefties run damage control on Barry & Kay’s job-killing pet monster

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Congressional Budget Office — long the target of much love and affection by liberals and mainstream media types — is now feeling their wrath. The CBO dared to publish

#NCSEN: Brannon vs. Tillis. FreedomWorks vs. Rove. Game ON!

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

FreedomWorks — arguably One of the biggest dogs in grassroots Tea Party politics — stepped forward Tuesday night in Raleigh to put its stamp of approval on the US Senate

#NCSEN: Theaming up with Thom, and Piling On

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If you want a good case study for why newspapers — especially those in Guilford County — are failing, check out Doug Clark’s nonsense in the pages of The Greensboro

#NCSEN: FreedomWorks + Greg Brannon = Game changer

Posted on February 3, 2014February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Tea Party groups across the state and the Brannon for US Senate campaign are quietly lining up supporters to attend a “FreedomWorks BBQ” in Raleigh on Tuesday evening. Sources familiar

#SCSEN: ANOTHER censure for Lindsey Graham?

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Boy, the problems keep mounting for South Carolina’s senior US senator. He’s got four primary opponents. He’s been censured by at least half a dozen county GOP organizations (including the

#NCSEN: Morrill’s lazy reporting gives Tillis a pass

Posted on February 2, 2014February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I had been waiting to see what the Charlotte Observer / McClatchy’s Jim Morrill was coming out with. I have known — for at least a week — that he

#NCSEN: Bought and Paid For?

Posted on February 1, 2014February 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The mainstream media could do the right thing and cover the upcoming Senate contest in terms of the issues. Inform the voters, keep their readers / viewers up to date

NC-02: Ellmers moves put amnesty for illegal aliens at the center of her primary fight

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers has been proud of her ties to House leadership. She once slipped up — I think — in a conversation with me, referring to House Speaker John Boehner