Category: NC legislature

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

#ncga : A primary for the pro tem

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I hear an awful lot of griping out there about the caliber of people we have “representing” us in Raleigh and DC. We’ve got primaries coming up in May.

Does the NCGOPe really want new vote integrity laws?

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

That’s a good question. Moore, Berger and their folks on Jones Street have sat quietly on their hands as The State Board of Elections made up their own rules

Dale Folwell leading the way in NC: screwing Russia while protecting North Carolina money

Posted on March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 by Brant Clifton

State treasurer Dale Folwell has had enough. He’s seen what we all have on the ol’ boob tube in re: Russia and Ukraine. And he’s ready to do something

Controversial NCGOP fundraiser spurs calls for changes to NCGOP POO

Posted on January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 by Brant Clifton

(Get your minds out of the gutter. It’s an acronym for “Plan Of Organization.”) It seems that reports of a certain House Caucus fundraiser in Plymouth, North Carolina — of