Category: NC State Government

Playing the race card, activating that white guilt

Posted on January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Folks, we’re being treated to something in the GOP primary for governor that we normally have to rely on the Democrats for. The alleged frontrunner in the primary wants to

Tale of the E-Mails: UNC lobbyists combat conservative reform, protect leftist status quo

Posted on January 30, 2024January 30, 2024 by Brant Clifton

The University of North Carolina’s governing boards are loaded with NCGOP donors and toadies. The president of the UNC system is a long-time NCGOP operative. Tim Moore – who is

NCGOV 2024: Folwell, Graham spar on dollars-and-cents issues.

Posted on January 30, 2024January 30, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Finally, we’re seeing something other than fawning over our dubiously-qualified lieutenant governor: North Carolina is facing an affordable housing crisis, and it’s become an issue in the race for governor.

BAAAAD for a prospective legislator, but OK for a wannabe governor?

Posted on January 25, 2024January 25, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Politics is famous for double-standards. *Rules for THEE, but not for MEEEEEEE.* We see it all the time in DC, in Raleigh, and even on the local front. Well, it

A gun-rights rebellion in Robinson-Land?

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That’s what it looks like from here. We’re starting to notice a pattern — early, passionate, high-profile supporters of Lt. Governor Mark Robinson are defecting from Team MKR. We saw

“Phil, is that YOU?”

Posted on January 19, 2024January 20, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his entourage have been shedding a lot of crocodile tears lately about the, um, “establishment” being “out to get them.” Never mind that the Robinson

Dale Folwell launches first ad of the 2024 GOP gubernatorial race

Posted on January 19, 2024January 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

It appears Dale Folwell, North Carolina’s state treasurer, has decided to see and raise the ante in his gubernatorial primary fight against Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and attorney Bill Graham.

Think the state’s public education status quo needs shaking up? Then say ‘Hello’ to Michele Morrow.

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Catherine Truitt has made the McCrory-Tillis wing of the North Carolina Republican Party proud. The allegedly Republican superintendent of the state’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has spent the last

Is it finally time to shut it down and start investigating?

Posted on January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

It now appears that a Greensboro-based business owned by NC’s aspiring First Lady Yolanda Hill (aka “Mrs. Mark Robinson”) has been making unauthorized payments of tax dollars to family members for

RFK Jr. shows MKR how to draw a crowd for a political rally

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Earlier reports indicate that our lieutenant governor and alleged frontrunner for the GOP gubernatorial nomination was only able to draw about 150 people to a Raleigh-area political rally on Saturday.