Category: campaign 2014

#NCSEN: Roadkill & Richard, WHO ??????

Posted on December 15, 2013December 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

State House Speaker — and US Senate candidate — Thom Tillis has been quite talkative lately via email. He’s tackled taxes and immigration, and has now moved on

#NCSEN Speaker Thom speaks on taxes, immigration

Posted on December 14, 2013December 15, 2013 by Brant Clifton

So far, during this primary campaign, you’ve had to (a) friend Speaker Thom on Facebook or (b) attend a high-dollar fundraiser to hear state House speaker Thom Tillis

#NCSEN Another NCGOP establishment icon joins Theam Tillis

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

A North Carolinian who has held countless jobs over the decades with Democrat and Republican officials has thrown his support behind state House Speaker Thom Tillis in

US House approves tax increase, spending increases in Murray-Ryan deal (Some NC, SC GOPers help)

Posted on December 13, 2013December 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and the rest of the House GOP leadership have pretty much stomped out the last vestiges of the GOP’s claim to being the party

#NCSEN Former NCGOP legislator: Brannon “doesn’t like Mexicans,” we “need” Speaker Thom’s experience

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

I’m on several politically-flavored email lists, where political junkies bat around the issues and the inside scoop on elections. Participants include former and current elected officials, business leaders, current and

#NCSEN CFO Report: ObamaCare is a job killer! (um, SURPRISE ?????)

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The elites in government, media and academia are finally coming around to what we’ve known about ObamaCare for years now: Corporate financial chiefs say they expect to

#NCSEN: El Sr. Tillis quiere amnistía ahora

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

It looks as if some big donors are calling in some chits with the Tillis for Senate campaign. Speaker Thom appeared before the NC Farm Bureau Monday to urge

Murray-Ryan budget deal: selling us a bill of goods

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got 535 voting members of Congress. Yet. this “bi-partisan”, “disaster-averting” budget deal announced yesterday got hammered out in private talks between Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray and House

#NCSEN Brannon says: Stop hijacking the term ‘conservative’

Posted on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Cary physician Greg Brannon, Tea Party favorite and one of the leading contenders for the GOP nomination for US Senate, told a Moore County audience

#SCSEN Lindsey Graham: O-Care? “That’s FINE.”