Category: NC legislature

The Weatherman Way

Posted on January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Hal Weatherman has a reputation for being a get-er-done kinda guy. The young fellow has been entrusted with running some aspects of former congresswoman Sue Myrick’s campaigns. He ran both

How screwed up is Governor’s School?

Posted on January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Let’s see. Here we have a damning presentation compiled by NO Left Turn In Education, a conservative activist group, for Lt. Governor Mark Robinson’s FACTS task force. A few, um,

Plaintiff’s lawyers fire back at Truitt’s smear tactics

Posted on January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s an old, old, old trick by statists and government types. Any government employee who dares to speak up about perceived problems is to be slandered or libeled into professional

Cooper, Truitt united by MARRIAGE

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It appears that our Democrat governor and our Republican DPI superintendent are getting their education policy advice from the SAME Triangle-area household. Commentators lament the existence in DC of “The

DPI’s Truitt tosses anti-CRT employee UNDER the school bus

Posted on January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The self-proclaimed “conservative” superintendent of North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has pretty well told a former NC governor’s school faculty member he is ON HIS OWN. Dr. David

North State Journal reporter running PR for DPI’s Truitt?

Posted on December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 by Brant Clifton

THAT is what it looks like. When Pat McCrory ran for governor in 2012, some Republicans got together to form a newspaper that would give a voice to newly-empowered Republicans

I sense a disturbance in the Force ….

Posted on December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 by Brant Clifton

A presence I have not felt in some time … The Mike Hager for House campaign Twitter feed is up and running and chock full of eyebrow-raising info. Believe me,

WHO for WHAT ???

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Yep. The mastermind of the 2020 GOP campaign for governor of North Carolina is apparently announcing his own bid for Lt. Governor of the same state: In case you were

Gov. Doofus b****es at Duke Power about mess HE made

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Brant Clifton

It must be good to have the news media fawning over every word you speak, and to never be held accountable for the words — no matter how nonsensical or

The Mushroom Treatment: Big stories being ignored by NC drive-bys

Posted on December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 by Brant Clifton

It’s arguable that IGNORING important events is just as bad as LYING about them. In-state and national drive-bys have achieved excellence in lying about stuff. But they are staying oh-so-silent