Category: NC legislature

Waiting for Team Tillis to stand up and fight

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It is hard to understand the squeamishness on the part of Speaker Thom & the House leadership in today’s N&O re: voter id. Speaker Tillis and Rep. David Lewis say

“Let’s play CHANGE THE SUBJECT!”

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

All of us have things that we REALLY don’t want to talk about. State Democrats DON’T want to talk about Barry Obama, John Edwards, David Parker, Jay Parmley,

Tillman’s chicken nugget bill has good intentions, but misses the mark

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

State senator Jerry Tillman (R) — that body’s majority whip, who also represents Moore and Randolph counties — has pushed through legislation targeting a policy that gave North Carolina

Campaign 2012: crotch-punching returning to center-stage?

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

This year’s gubernatorial campaign is looking more and more like an economic stimulus program for members of the state bar association. We’ve got the Pat McCrory campaign retaining lawyers to

As The Budget Busts: the expensive soap opera being rolled out by Jones Street studios

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We had a GOP takeover of the General Assembly which showed promise of introducing fiscal sanity to state government. The 2011 budget debate had leftists hollering about mean old

Carolina Journal: Room for improvement in NC House budget proposal

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Analysts with Raleigh’s John Locke Foundation say there are plenty of good things in the state budget proposal currently moving through state legislative chambers, but caution that conservatives

L’affaire LaRoque: C’est fini?

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, it appears embattled Republican legislator and state House Rules Committee chairman Stephen LaRoque is DONE. The recount in his apparent May 8th loss to challenger John Bell confirmed that

Civitas: What Belt Tightening?

Posted on May 26, 2012May 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s election time. The honorables on the right side of the aisle on Jones Street are running around telling us how conservative and careful they’ve been with the people’s money.

Fiddling while the state’s economy burns

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The honorables on Jones Street are in full campaign mode, engaging in some serious political theater. We’ve got a record number of people out of work, and an obscenely high

Outer Banks Tea Party fight with NCGOP establishment heating up

Posted on May 22, 2012May 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The epicenter of the fight between the conservative grassroots and the Raleigh establishment is in The Outer Banks’ House District 6. A July 17 GOP