Category: NC legislature

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

Vaccine Passports? Say it ain’t so, Roy.

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Our developmentally-challenged governor has been mighty evasive about vaccine passports — proof of COVID vaccination which gains you new freedoms. The Big Dummy told WRAL that he favored

The tears of a RINO

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Longtime Carolina basketball scribe Art Chansky has a piece up giving us all real insight into exactly what kind of weak sister Republicans get appointed to stuff by Jones

Libs sought 1st amendment suit in Hannah-Jones tenure kerfluffle

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Brant Clifton

I found this out in a Charlotte Observer op-ed from a few weeks ago. Many libs, like the ones running THIS site, believe right-wing stormtroopers control UNC and are

Cooper cancels unemployment cuts. (Viva la coronavirus!)

Posted on July 6, 2021July 6, 2021 by Brant Clifton

That extra coronavirus $300 you’ve been getting in your unemployment check each month isn’t going anywhere, thanks to Roy Cooper. Yes, those are ‘Help Wanted’ signs you see dotting