Category: NC legislature

Pay no attention to the cronies behind the curtain.

Posted on June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I ran across this post by a little drive-by *sweetie* who I cannot believe is STILL employed: Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa … ? Why all the sneakiness and hijinks to permanently legalize

Gov. Stoopid opens mouth, inserts foot AGAIN

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Brant Clifton

So, Roy Cooper thinks Mark Robinson talking about guns as the best protection against authoritarianism in government is “dangerous”? WELL, I beg to differ. I think it’s more dangerous

A RED wave? (SO what.)

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Brant Clifton

We’re all being told to be patient. The “red wave” is coming and ALL will be right in America again. Seriously. (Seriously?) Previous Republican majorities failed to even

Folwell throws his weight behind “Medical Debt De-weaponization”

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Our state treasurer has made his concern about the current state of health care very well known. Dale Folwell is throwing his considerable political “weight” behind a new bill

Part-time job, very big bucks

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Ever wonder what all of those people in the legislative building pull down each year? WELL, the N&O has finally done something useful and created a database of legislative

Even MORE meddling in primaries by NC House GOP leadership?

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

Richmond County Republican Ben Moss, against the odds, beat fellow incumbent Jamie Boles of Moore County in the primaries earlier this month. The race started off with kind words

Did legislator threaten Moore County leader?

Posted on May 23, 2022May 24, 2022 by Brant Clifton

That’s what is being claimed by Moore County school board member David Hensley — one of the county’s leading conservative AND Republican leaders — in this May 19 Facebook

Thoughts on Tuesday (and the future)

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Brant Clifton

For the most part, we at Haymaker HQ had a pretty good election night. A good chunk of the folks we were pulling for WON. Pat McCrory. The former governor

Wake up. Get up. GO VOTE.

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I hear people whining about how their vote doesn’t make a difference. All I can say in response is: “The hell it doesn’t.” If you are conservative, you are

A hostile takeover of our state’s judiciary

Posted on April 25, 2022 by Brant Clifton

News of takeovers is all over the place. There’s ol’ Vlad in The Ukraine and Elon Musk and Twitter, among others. It’s beginning to look like the special