Category: NC legislature

#ncga: Sex And The (capital) City

Posted on March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We all remember the hubbub over the chief of staff (and roommate) to then-speaker Thom Tillis getting caught in a tryst with a Jones Street lobbyist. Then, late last year,

NCGOP: ‘Huh? What’d ya say?’

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

“It’s about to get all stupid up in here!” — Michael Scott, Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company Just when you thought things couldn’t get any dumber than having that dude dress

Off the reservation

Posted on March 12, 2015March 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s right. You read it correctly. Leftist strategist Thomas Mills is praising the work of new Republican speaker Tim Moore: Speaker Tim Moore is off to an impressive start. In

When is a tax cut NOT REALLY a tax cut?

Posted on March 12, 2015March 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Answer: When you lower the rate, but monkey with the value of what is getting taxed. This kind of thing happens a lot at the local level. Your county

#ncga: Hager? Hager? Hager? Anyone?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Mike Hager came into office as majority leader with such promise. He spent the last session as majority whip. Hager was the architect of sweeping legislation that would have wiped

#ncga: Some common sense on the gas tax, NC Competes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

House speaker Tim Moore and the rest of the GOP leadership in Raleigh are crowing about how much better off we’ll be now that they’ve approved an increase in the

#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