Category: NC legislature

#ncga: Great moments in staged photography

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Here is a shot of the mailer the GOP state senate caucus’s “affiliated committee” sent out to voters in Moore County: Notice anything unusual in the main photo? Senator

#ncga: What’s a little election LAW between friends?

Posted on April 1, 2018April 2, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Remember Dallas calling everybody seeking warm bodies to put their names on the May ballots? Who needs actual party-building when you can play the whole Potemkin village,stalking-horse game? *What could

#ncga: Chad and Bob hug it out

Posted on March 28, 2018March 29, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The Chad Adams show become “The Bob Steinburg Show” today. The alleged “voice of North Carolina conservatives” turned the mike, and control of his show, over to the embattled legislator

Monkey Business Report: NCGA per diem edition

Posted on March 26, 2018March 27, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Hang around state politics enough and you’re bound to hear whining about how little our legislators are compensated. According to state law, rank-and-file legislators (not in leadership) get paid $13,951

#ncga: Mrs. Lexo goes to Raleigh?

Posted on March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 by Brant Clifton

President Harry Truman had the nickname “Give ’em hell” Harry. The voters in state Senate district 25 very well could be sending “Give ’em Hell” Michelle to our fair state

#ncga: More on the NC Dem wish list

Posted on March 24, 2018March 24, 2018 by Brant Clifton

We told you earlier about Spectrum News’s “scoop” on the Democrat wish list for the NC House races in 2018. One of the names on that wish list was Rep.

#ncga: Kelly Hastings and his campaign finances. (SIGH)

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Brant Clifton

We’ve reported at length on state Rep. Kelly Hastings and the, um, adventurous style with which he manages his campaign finances. His year-end 2017 report is living up to the

#ncga: NC Dem poll info on House races ????

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Brant Clifton

It appears the North Carolina Democrat Party may have shared some info on internal polling with the girl from the steno pool at Spectrum News. You know Spectrum. It’s that

#ncga: The NC Republican Senatorial Committee and the SD-25 GOP primary

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Remember those “affiliated party committees”? They got rammed through Jones Street in response to the election of Hasan Harnett to the NCGOP chairmanship. *Can’t have the unwashed Tea Party hordes

#ncpol: “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate!”

Posted on March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 by Brant Clifton

I’m going to delay commentary momentarily. I want you, dear readers, to see if you can find what’s wrong HERE: In one press release, the NCGOP Communications team has managed