Category: NC legislature

Folwell calls The Blue Cross dark money bluff

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Brant Clifton

For years, Blue Cross Blue Shield has dominated – in spite of horrible customer service – the health insurance game in North Carolina. State treasurer Dale Folwell recently taught the

Rules? We don’ need no steenkin’ rules!

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

Another night, another NCGOP conference call. Monday evening, Michael Whatley herded many of his County and District Chair minions onto a statewide conference call during which he pushed through another

Tillis: Trump needs a serious primary

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Come to think of it — SO DO YOU, THOMMY. So. Do. YOU. Axios has all the glorious highlights: Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is cheering the prospect of multiple candidates

And THEN there were TWO.

Posted on February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 by Brant Clifton

This month, the 2024 GOP race for lieutenant governor will get a wee bit more interesting. State politics fixture Hal Weatherman – a political consultant and former aide to Dan

The ‘Stupid Party’ flexes its muscles in Moore County

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The once-great columnist and pundit George Will once christened the GOP establishment and its acolytes as “the stupid party.” In other words, these people witnessed the great successes of President

North State Journal editor lobbies for controversial sex-change insurer, potential Medicaid expansion beneficiary

Posted on January 26, 2023 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’s alleged conservative voice is getting a little raspy and hoarse. We already told you about a NSJ reporter’s behind-the-scenes spinning and defending of DPI superintendent Catherine Truitt’s footsie-playing with

The curious case of Beth Wood

Posted on January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I am not as giggly and gleeful about the Beth Wood scandal as many of my GOP brethren are. Granted, she is a Democrat. But she has done a pretty

#ncga: And the legislator says OOPS.

Posted on January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It looks like I am really going to get my money’s worth on these “Timmy” graphics. There are TWO of them now on Jones Street. We already told you about

Thom, leave the kid in the wheelchair ALONE.

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Is Thom Tillis REALLY as petty as he appears? A PAC controlled by Tillis utilized six figures of cash apparently stolen from FTX customers to oust incumbent congressman Madison

‘Baghdad Bob’, meet ‘Greenville Tim’.

Posted on January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 by Brant Clifton

You may remember, during the First Gulf War, this peculiar spokesman for Saddam Hussein. He got nicknamed ‘Baghdad Bob.’ He would appear on western media talking trash about the Americans,