Category: NC legislature

#ncga: Let’s Get Reaaaaaaaady to Rummmmmmmmmble !!!

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Are y’all ready for this? It appears — according to some email that got sent out today — that Tim and Phil are concerned about how the search for

#ncpol: Back to making a DOLLAR?

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Now that Nelson is THE bread-winner in the Dollar family, the effort is being stepped up to find Miss Lorrie some work. The hottest word going around Jones and Blount

#ncga: Great BIG ONES. (Yessirree.)

Posted on October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

THAT is exactly what it takes to to go toe-to-toe or nose-to-nose with an appropriations chairman when you are an agency head. THAT is apparently what has happened this week

#ncga: Dropping like flies (picking up primary opponents?)

Posted on October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Brian Brown. Jacqueline Schaeffer. Rayne Brown. Leo Daughtry. Paul Tine. Skip Stam. That’s an awful lot of folks bailing out of Jones Street’s lower chamber majority. Could some folks be

#ncpol: Paul Shumaker’s “dog” enters the AG “fight”

Posted on October 13, 2015October 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We told you it was coming. Granted, there were a few false starts, stutters and missteps. But the guy who tried to stick us with subsidies for hemp and solar

#ncga: But, but but — It’s them bloggers’s fault !!!

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That was apparently the spin — as reported to us by a faithful reader — put forth recently by state Rep. Frank Iler (R-Brunswick) in response to questions about those

ANOTHER attempt to oust Lewis from RNC?

Posted on October 8, 2015October 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The Third District GOP took a stab at it. Now, this comes over the transom: Dear North Carolina Republicans, Please forward this email to any other NC Republican you know.

#ncga: The trials and tribulations of Tricia (on Twitter)

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Things are kind of slow over on Jones Street now. So, we’re expecting a lot of great things out of Tricia Cotham — a little left-wing lady with BIG dreams.

#ncga: GOPers celebrated by solar subsidy lobby

Posted on October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The folks who have feasted in our wallets for years to fund their solar energy follies spend time this past week celebrating the NCGA Republicans who have been so good

#ncga: GOPer Brown leaving Jones St. to work for Thillis

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The GOP caucus in the North Carolina House will have one less familiar face when the next session starts up. State Rep. Brian Brown (R-Pitt) released this info to his