Category: Thom Tillis

HERE COME THA’ THOLLS !!!

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The snow has captured everyone’s attention statewide over the last few days, but this managed to slip in under the radar: The state’s $550 million plan to add Interstate 77 toll lanes

#NCSEN: PPP poll shows we’re headed for a GOP runoff.

Posted on February 13, 2014February 13, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Public Policy Polling has released its latest numbers on the 2014 US Senate race. The Democrat pollster is finding what a lot of us have known. This thing — at

#NCSEN: In 2011, Speaker Thom thought state health insurance exchanges OK

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Everyone agrees ObamaCare will be a huge issue in the 2014 elections. In 2013, the General Assembly said NO to accepting federal money to set up a state health care

Thom & Bru: Mutual back-scratching at its best

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis and Harold Brubaker have quite a special political bond. They are the only two Republican speakers of the North Carolina House since Reconstruction. The two became very close

#NCSEN #NCGA: 2012 Tillis House campaign accepted $4K from wife of figure in federal bribery case

Posted on February 10, 2014February 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina state House speaker Thom Tillis has established quite a reputation as a prolific fundraiser. He’s been credited with providing the ammo needed for the GOP to take over

#NCSEN: Tillis “mentor” in midst of Outer Banks fishing fracas

Posted on February 7, 2014February 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Commercial fishermen along eastern North Carolina have been knocking heads for some time with state regulators. Local fishing interests fear that regulations pushed by environmentalists with pull in Raleigh are

#NCSEN: If you pay him, he will come.

Posted on February 7, 2014February 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate

#NCSEN: Morrill’s lazy reporting gives Tillis a pass

Posted on February 2, 2014February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I had been waiting to see what the Charlotte Observer / McClatchy’s Jim Morrill was coming out with. I have known — for at least a week — that he

#NCSEN: Bought and Paid For?

Posted on February 1, 2014February 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The mainstream media could do the right thing and cover the upcoming Senate contest in terms of the issues. Inform the voters, keep their readers / viewers up to date

#NCSEN: Bill Flynn Moves Out. Greg Brannon Moves IN to Thom’s neighborhood.

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

News comes today that Greensboro area radio broadcaster Bill Flynn is folding up his effort to win the GOP nomination for US Senate. This comes on the heels of his