Category: NC legislature

The GOP establishment and primaries

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The GOP ruling class had NO qualms about sticking their noses into Republican primaries at the local, legislative, and congressional levels this year . However, we had ONE primary —

Thom’s Team LUVs lobbyists

Posted on May 2, 2012May 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The other –um, high-heeled — shoe has dropped. It’s been learned that state House Speaker Thom Tillis has discovered ANOTHER of his employees having a romantic relationship with a registered

Forget the whales and the dolphins. Save the Speaker! (Save Thom !!!)

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The state’s economy is in the tank. Our debt is growing by the minute. Unemployment ranks are growing. And what is the Raleigh political class doing? Plotting to save poor

Toss Thom: Tillis is toxic to the fortunes of the NCGOP

Posted on April 27, 2012April 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I have long been suspicious of state House speaker Thom Tillis. He was recruited into politics by Richard Morgan — Robin to Jim Black’s Batman — to run against

The N&O busts Tillis’s aide, but what about Dalton’s daughter?

Posted on April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s a shame that — in the middle of the state’s full blown economic disaster — our political class is caught up in tabloid-quality stories and allegations.

Scoring Berger’s education proposal

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

State Senate President Phil Berger (R) announced a “major policy” initiative this week regarding public education. It all pretty much focused on putting more heat on the folks at

NCGOP: tone deaf or trying to change the subject?

Posted on April 25, 2012April 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

“It’s STILL the economy. We’re NOT stupid.” — Mitt Romney April 24, 2012 NC Senate President Phil Berger (R) trumpeted the other day that he had a “major

The Stupid Party rears its head in Raleigh

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Columnist George Will coined the phrase “The Stupid Party” to refer to Republicans who run away from winning conservative principles and sign on to more of the same ruling class,

Marcum vs. Tillman: Pot, meet kettle. (Kettle is black.)

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

One of our loyal readers — who happens to work in Southern Pines town government — offered up an interesting comment on state Senate candidate John

NC Senate Dist 29 GOP race: campaign signs and election complaints

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Hotly contested races almost always come down to this type of stuff in the end. State senator Jerry Tillman (R-Randolph), that body’s Majority Whip, is running for