Category: NC State Government

#ncpol: An intriguing candidate for state schools superintendent

Posted on October 20, 2015October 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The “Walking Dead” is not just on AMC. It’s hiding out in a corner office in Raleigh’s ”Pink Palace” and will be hitting the campaign trail very soon. June Atkinson

#ncga: ”Um, this is YOUR monster, Drs. Berger & Moore.”

Posted on October 16, 2015October 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians never cease to amaze me. A few sessions back, I was treated to a barrage of b*tching from various Republican legislators about Skip Stam and Thom Tillis. From all

#ncga: Let’s Get Reaaaaaaaady to Rummmmmmmmmble !!!

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Are y’all ready for this? It appears — according to some email that got sent out today — that Tim and Phil are concerned about how the search for

#ncga: Great BIG ONES. (Yessirree.)

Posted on October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

THAT is exactly what it takes to to go toe-to-toe or nose-to-nose with an appropriations chairman when you are an agency head. THAT is apparently what has happened this week

Smacking Speciale (But what about lil’ Tricia?)

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It appears that The N&O’s Colin Campbell is competing with Rob Christensen for this year’s “Laziest PoS in the Newsroom” title. So far, the competition looks quite,um, heated. Colin decided

The cost of government

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

There is a lot of hubbub about the state budget right now. We’re hearing a lot from county and city officials moaning about how hard it is to do business

#ncga: Six things that have slowed the budget process

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That is, in essence, what the story in today’s N&O was about. (Off the top of our heads, we can think of at least ONE BIG obvious one.) Here is

#ncga: Dollar-Lewis-Moore counting on Dems, planning culling of conservative herd

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There WILL be war. That’s what my sources from all four corners of Jones Street are telling me amidst the poker-game-with-other-people’s-money called “budget conference negotiations.” Said one well-placed House GOP

That lonely one-way street called party loyalty. (And its sidewalks are packed with WHORES.)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We conservatives are ALWAYS lectured about party loyalty. *We need to suck it up and support Pat McCrory, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr.* This year, the

#ncga: Somebody call a plumber.

Posted on September 9, 2015September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Some folks were seething inside a House GOP caucus meeting today. What were the accelerants for all that burning — that fire? I’m told there were two things: (1) the fact