Category: NC State Government

#ncpol: Soooooo. How’s YOUR governor doing?

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Morning Consult, a national political website, conducted a months-long survey of 75,000 voters in all 50 states. Here’s what they found: Voters take a dim view of just about everything

#ncga: Technically Incorrect.

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The General Assembly has a procedure called “technical corrections.” It’s sort of like a proofreading session. Grammatical errors in legislation are corrected. Factual errors in legislation are corrected. The i’s

No money for I-77? Why not take the Garden Parkway $$$ and deep-six the tholls?

Posted on November 17, 2015November 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Folks in northern Mecklenburg County have been told they have no choice but to accept tholl roads to pay for the widening of I-77, a major traffic artery for the

#ncga: The blind leading the blind right into traffic

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys have raised some valid points about Gov. Pat and his dealings with a donor seeking an extension of a contract with the state prison system. Now, the legislature is

Even more leftist child abuse

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Liberals LOVE to hide behind kids. They use them as props in their photo ops / demonstrations / crying jags all the time. Obama had one standing by as he

#ncpol: The #daoudcrowd’s Ten-grand Man

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

AJ Daoud is announcing his run for secretary of state next week. That job depends on serious attention to detail. According to state board of elections records, Daoud has been

#ncpol: A not-so-conservative #DaoudCrowd

Posted on November 13, 2015November 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The DaoudCrowd has become a part of the North Carolina political lexicon. It’s got its own Twitter hashtag. Its hero — 6th district GOp chairman AJ Daoud — posts online

#ncga: GOP senator slams state Commerce Dept., economic incentives AND Atlanta

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s kind of refreshing to hear this talk from one of the powers-that-be on Jones Street. Here’s Senator Andy Wells (R – Alexander, Catawba): It wasn’t news when a report

#ncga: Senator Berger PREACHES IT.

Posted on November 6, 2015November 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The state Senate’s big kahuna went in front of the biggest, most-prominent Common Core-loving, spend-more-and-more-and-more money crowd and told them a few things I am SURE they didn’t want to

#ncgop: Circling the wagons around Lewis?

Posted on November 4, 2015November 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We wrote earlier about petitions being circulated to demand a vote on removing state Rep. David Lewis (R-Harnett) as one of North Carolina’s two representatives to the Republican National Committee.