Category: NC legislature

#NCGA: Lights, camera — Cronyism !!!

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Um, BOHICA, We’ve got a $445 million revenue shortfall at the state level. The honorables on Jones Street are getting ready to hit us with toll roads on top of

#NCGA: The weather vane strategy on govt meddling in health care

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Ask any Republican legislator in Raleigh — or any Republican serving in the Congress — and they will tell you they don’t like that BAD ObamaCare and they want it

#NCGA: They’re BAAAACK !!! (Let the scams begin!)

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The so-called legislative short session kicks off on Jones Street Wednesday. The N&O has already started smooching Phil Berger’s posterior. Makes sense. He IS the BMOC now — thanks to

#NCSEN: race already starting to look like one for #NCGA

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We had all hoped for this campaign to be about punishing Kay Hagan for her cooperation with Barry Obama and Harry Reid in the enactment of ObamaCare and the accompanying

#NCPOL: What Tea Party?

Posted on May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I participated in the big 9/12/09 march on Washington that is credited with being the coming-out party for The Tea Party movement. As my friends and I walked amid the

#NCGA: Did state senator hit-and-run?

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Wow. Talk about bad timing. Two days before the primary elections, a state senator from coastal southeastern North Carolina is drawing scrutiny that could end up in a courtroom. WWAY-TV out

#NCSEN: Gov. Pat is on the phone. He likes Thom.

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I am hearing from quite a few folks who heard from Pat McCrory on their home telephones Sunday evening. The governor was telling them how important it was to vote

#NCSEN: Not behaving like a runaway winner

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The chattering classes in Raleigh and DC are already talking up a general election race between Thom Tillis and Kay Hagan. Never mind that all signs point to a GOP

#NCSEN: The two faces of Thom

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Hollywood gave us “The Three Faces of Eve.” This year, the GOP establishment is trying to force-feed us a real stinker called “The Two Faces of Thom.” Americans have a real

#NCSEN: Mitt Tillis

Posted on May 1, 2014May 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In 2012, we were told Barack Hussein Obama would be political ‘dead meat’ when he faced the voters in 2012. The economy was terrible. National morale was down. It was