Category: NC legislature

Voter ID: Judges overturn it because it “might be” racist

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Brant Clifton

A panel of two Democrat judges and one Republican threw out the NC voter ID law this past week — citing GOP lawmakers’ allegedly racist intent and suggesting that

Cooper: Stop bullying the school board

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Brant Clifton

You heard the genius right. Shut your mouth while the elected puppets of the unelected public school administrators continue to do the bidding of the superintendent and his staff

Sweetheart deal from The Feds, but NO campaign finance filings for last 14 months

Posted on August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 by Brant Clifton

As long as you have a campaign fund open, you are required to update the reporting on said fund. Former state Rep. David Lewis still has his campaign

Who did Jason Saine ACTUALLY pay?

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Brant Clifton

We were perusing NC House Appropriations Committee chairman Jason Saine’s 2021 mid-year campaign report when we noticed something interesting. On January 19, 2021 Saine’s report showed a $5,000 payment

David Lewis’s manicured hands get slapped. (* Um, surprise?*)

Posted on August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 by Brant Clifton

He took $400,000 from his donors for personal use, but only got a slap on his manicured hands: After admitting to financial crimes like not paying taxes — as

Roy Cooper and the politics of unemployment

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Okay, see if you can follow me here. In July, our weaselly governor vetoed a bill passed by the GOP-controlled legislature to end the $300 supplement to unemployment benefits.

CRT, Gay stuff and a ‘gender unicorn’ at The North Carolina Governor’s School

Posted on August 1, 2021August 2, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Many of you might already know about Governor’s School. It’s where the supposed best and brightest of our high school kids go to bolster their CVs for college and

Are Jones St. GOPers giving NC its very own Green New Deal?

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Brant Clifton

That’s what appears to be happening with HB 951, which passed the GOP-controlled House and is sitting in the GOP-controlled Senate. (If you click on the aforementioned link, you’ll

NC state board of elections shoots down NC House Freedom Caucus

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Brant Clifton

On the bright side, it’s refreshing to see some House Republicans taking a break from whoring for the lobbyists to actually look out for the people outside the Raleigh

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Cuba is a model we should follow.

Posted on July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Those of you who are still trying to make Ms. Hannah-Jones out to be a victim (and the rest of us racists) need to finally shut up. The