Category: NC legislature

#ncga: GOP leaders passing stuff with Democrat votes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In Washington, House speaker John Boehner has shown he has no issue with pushing legislation that flies in the face of the GOP platform and needs Democrat votes in order

NCGOP once again meddling in local politics?

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Are Republican power-brokers in the state trying to manipulate party organizations at the local level? It’s starting to look that way. We reported on US Rep. Renee Ellmers issuing an

#NCGA: Speaker’s team issues talking points to help spin NC Competes Act & gas tax hike

Posted on March 7, 2015March 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our cadre of spies on Jones Street has struck pay-dirt once again. We have in our clutches a March 6 email authored by Mollie Young, House Speaker Tim Moore’s director of communications. The

#ncga: Lights, Camera … WELFARE !!!!

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Well, they approved $45 million in corporate welfare after turning down TWENTY MILLION for being too much last session. Movie incentives also got shot down. So far, this year it

#ncga: More gas tax for US, and NO gas tax for airlines

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Talk about great big ones. The same guy who wants us all to pay more for gas in our cars wants to let airliners with a presence in North Carolina

#ncga: Tax-and-spend Republicans

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

Why vote FOR Republicans, if they are going to simply do what the Democrats WOULD have done had they been in charge? That’s a question to ponder in the

#ncga: How to deal with road construction $$$ “woes”? STOP ROBBING THE HIGHWAY FUND.

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Some of the honorables on Jones Street — aided and abetted by the drive by media — are still pushing that myth about how cash-starved the state is for road

#ncga: Who the #@*$ is in charge here ?????

Posted on March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

From what Jones Street insiders are telling me, Cumberland County Rep. Rick Glazier (D) is the closest thing to a leader in the General Assembly’s lower chamber. And HE is

#ncga: A mad rush to leech on to the state employee health plan

Posted on March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Senator Bill Rabon is quite the trailblazer. We reported earlier on his efforts to get the town employees of Southport — his hometown — onto the state employees’ health plan.

#ncga: YET ANOTHER screwy deal on jail food service

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Brant Clifton

What is it with cutting special insider deals on feeding jail inmates? We reported earlier on an effort in the House to seek a no-bid deal for food service to