Category: NC legislature

#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

#ncga: From solar to HEMP (here we go again … )

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Thanks to a grassroots uproar, the whole solar subsidies scam got sideswiped and derailed. But it appears, according to Civitas, that ANOTHER SCAM has sneaked in under the radar: Wh[at] does

#ncgop: Impeachment for ‘gross inefficiency’

Posted on October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Seriously? We can do that? (Wow. Talk about a great method for down-sizing government.) There were fireworks this weekend when Third Congressional District Republican leaders got together. They had state

#ncga: We don’t need exceptions. We need a REPEAL.

Posted on October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve recently heard news about the General Assembly issuing “exceptions” to the state Certificate of Need rules to Belhaven hospital and another one out in western North Carolina. For

#nc-03: Some advice for Taylor Griffin

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It looks like the GOP primary for US House is not going to look anything like the last go-around. The Walter Jones campaign got caught flat-footed in 2014 and nearly