Category: NC State Government

NC campaign 2012: Mike Causey on ObamaCare ruling, campaign trail gossip

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I caught up with Mike Causey, Republican candidate for commissioner of insurance, while he was on his way to a speaking engagement DownEast in the big city of

Morgan vs. Causey: A Tale of Two campaign finance reports

Posted on June 27, 2012June 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The North Carolina Insurance Law blog does a great job of giving us the story behind the numbers in the GOP runoff for NC commissioner of

NC state govt spending at A RECORD HIGH

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Political campaigns do a nice job of keeping pesky things like facts out of election year debates. The North Carolina Democrat Party’s 2012 campaign effort — spearheaded by gubernatorial nominee

Peace, Love & Granola at the NC Democrat convention

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Rob Christensen has been SO concerned lately about a “hard right” turn in the NCGOP. There were no public reports of crotch-punching at the

Roy Cooper: Talk about a missed opportunity

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

2012 is supposed to be a boon year for North Carolina Republicans — landing the Governor and Lt. Governor seats for the first time since 1988, as well

The Pilot: pushing far-left talking points, telling half of the story, and mocking the few readers it has left

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

You have to just LOVE Yankees who move down here and chastise us for not being more like the morally and fiscally-bankrupt blue states they fled. Steve Bouser, The Pilot’s

Waiting for Team Tillis to stand up and fight

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It is hard to understand the squeamishness on the part of Speaker Thom & the House leadership in today’s N&O re: voter id. Speaker Tillis and Rep. David Lewis say

Tillman’s chicken nugget bill has good intentions, but misses the mark

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

State senator Jerry Tillman (R) — that body’s majority whip, who also represents Moore and Randolph counties — has pushed through legislation targeting a policy that gave North Carolina

Campaign 2012: crotch-punching returning to center-stage?

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

This year’s gubernatorial campaign is looking more and more like an economic stimulus program for members of the state bar association. We’ve got the Pat McCrory campaign retaining lawyers to

As The Budget Busts: the expensive soap opera being rolled out by Jones Street studios