Category: NC legislature

Tholls: From Bad to Worse for GOPe on I-77 fiasco?

Posted on June 29, 2015June 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Tomorrow, dozens of players in the North Mecklenburg business community will travel to our fair capital city to make it clear they do not care for the plan to slap tolls

#ncga: Taxing & regulating gambling?

Posted on June 27, 2015June 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s an idea that intrigues us. Taxes on gambling are paid voluntarily, as opposed to the current confiscatory practices of our state and federal revenue agencies. Doing something like this

Lake Norman chamber jumps into I-77 toll road fray

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The proposal to install tolls on I-77 in northern Mecklenburg County — championed by Pat McCrory and Thom Tillis — has turned into quite a political hot potato. A

#ncga: Fletch flounders

Posted on June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politics is a lot like business in the real world. In business, people form relationships with people because they need something from them. In most cases, those relationships end when

Pedicures: For when you just can’t keep your foot out of your mouth

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Pat McCrory never ceases to amaze me. I have never seen anyone in elected office work so hard to tick off each and every possible segment of his or her

#ncga: Aaaaand Mr. Blust has the floor …

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It looks like we have quite a food fight brewing among Republicans representing the Greensboro area. Check out this email sent by Rep. John Blust (R) to his colleagues in

#ncga: Blinkin’ Chris strikes AGAIN?

Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I happened to stumble across a Blinkin’ Chris commentary on WRAL radio while driving around today. Of course, the blinkin’ one was in his typical ‘damn the republicans’ mode. But

#ncga: Tax ALL the things!

Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Check out this doozy in the latest version of the budget, H.97, being kicked around Jones Street (p.491, lines 8-9): […] A privilege tax is imposed on a retailer engaged

#ncga: WHO is Joseph Dollar?

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

“Who is John Galt? ” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged ——————————— Bob Dole has been renowned for referring to himself in the third person. Could we have a similar case RIGHT

#ncga: Voter ID charlie-foxtrot = Tata’s fault?

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s the latest spin coming out of our fair capital city. The grassroots have been fuming since a last-minute surprise watering down of voter ID breezed through the General Assembly.