#NCSEN: Tillis, Burr split on Omnibus spending orgy
The travesty that got started in the House has been completed in the Republican Senate. By a vote of 65-33, a $1.1 TRILLION spending orgy has passed and is headed
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#ncga: David Lewis. On The Phone. Unhinged.
That’s how participants described a rather unusual conference call held Thursday among some House Republicans. The meeting was moderated — some would argue dictated and dominated — by beleaguered House
Continue reading#ncga: Moore, Lewis. (Pay to Play, anyone? )
Speaker Tim Moore’s *faaaaaaaaaavorite* TV reporter is at it again: State Representative David Lewis (R-Harnett), who chairs the powerful House Rules Committee, is answering new questions about changes made to a
Continue reading#ncga: Phil Berger and, um — THE TEAMSTERS ????
Don’t you just love it when politicians who know NOTHING about a subject try to lecture people who DO KNOW something about a subject? Law enforcement and military folks get
Continue reading#ncga: A RINO retreats
It appears that the bearded RINO will not be lumbering around the North Carolina Senate chamber in 2016 after all. We wrote earlier about how, um, *classy* it is to
Continue reading#ncpol: Team McCrory playing hardball in Meck toll dispute
We’ve written extensively about the I-77 toll road dispute in northern Mecklenburg County. it’s been quite heated. It cost — and came close to costing — some area politicians their
Continue readingTim Moore’s casino deal about to get some BIG-time DC help?
A proposed casino for the Kings Mountain, NC area has been quite a controversial subject in western North Carolina AND in the halls of power in Raleigh: The Catawba Indian
Continue reading#ncga: Curtis, we hardly knew ya.
Here’s the announcement from the Mecklenburg County GOP’s Facebook page: “The work he has done this past year” ???? Is she talking about his effort to recruit opponents against Republican
Continue reading#ncga: MeckGOP chairman doubles down on dissing Hager, floats trial balloon about state Senate run
I am baffled as to how Curtis Watkins still has his post with the party. (But then again, Dallas Woodhouse is STILL employed by the NCGOP.) If you haven’t been
Continue readingRucho Roars at MeckGOP chairman
A dentist-turned-legislator sounds like he wants to perform a root canal on his county party chairman — without anesthetic. We told you last week about MeckGOP chairman Curtis Watkins trying
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