Category: NC State Government

Folwell on the rise in Lt. Gov race?

Posted on April 26, 2012April 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Recent polling shows Dale Folwell, the state House speaker pro tem and staunch conservative legislator from Forsyth County, moving to the front of the pack in the race for the

Where’s Waldo? Leading the pack in the NC GOV Democrat primary

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Recent polling from the conservative Civitas Institute finds North Carolina’s invisible lieutenant governor, Walter Dalton, taking the lead and pulling ahead of former congressman and sidewalk wrestler

Scoring Berger’s education proposal

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

State Senate President Phil Berger (R) announced a “major policy” initiative this week regarding public education. It all pretty much focused on putting more heat on the folks at

NCGOP: tone deaf or trying to change the subject?

Posted on April 25, 2012April 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

“It’s STILL the economy. We’re NOT stupid.” — Mitt Romney April 24, 2012 NC Senate President Phil Berger (R) trumpeted the other day that he had a “major

Racial Justice Act opens the floodgates …

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Thank Bev Perdue and her comrades on the left in the NC General Assembly for this. They rammed The Racial Justice Act through the assembly in 2009 over

Get over it. No — On second thought — GET OUT.

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Lame-duck Bev finally decided that she HAD to speak up on the man-on-man sex scandal at state Democrat Party HQ. On Tuesday, she told

Got $17 — um — $14? I wanna BUY a teacher.

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina governor-wannabe Bobby “BOOM BOOM” Etheridge wants to put an end to a travesty — little kids having to raise money in order

Paying for them to do NOTHING

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We, the beleaguered taxpayers of North Carolina, are being told that we will finance a “special session” of the General Assembly where ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will be

Remedial education for NC high school graduates on the rise

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Democrats WANT to talk about education this campaign season. They’ve dominated state government for decades. They’ve thrown tons of money at our public schools. How’s

The NCGA GOP spending machine keeps rolling on ….

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’re being told that those mean ol’ legislative Republicans on Jones Street are trying to bleed public education dry. Au Contraire, mes amis. Check out this