Category: NCGOP

#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

#ncpol #ncga: Move over Alicia Silverstone. Here comes Binky!

Posted on November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve had some suspicions about Mark Binker’s level of intelligence and general awareness of things going on around him. Stuff like this confirms those suspicions: Incredible. Perhaps Binky is trying to

#ncga: How IN-KIND of you

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s a lot of drama percolating in the House GOP caucus over campaign finance reports. The speaker of the House, Tim Moore, has apparently been caught (1) reimbursing himself for

#NCSEN: Thillis delivers for his donors

Posted on November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Only 62.4 percent of Americans are in the labor force. THAT is a 38-year low. Over 94 million people are not in the labor force. That means those people do

#ncga #ncgop: Rolling out the spooked skunk strategy

Posted on November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Those of us who have spent time outside the big city are familiar with the habits of the common American skunk. When those creatures get cornered, or feel threatened, they

#ncga: Breaking News! Folks on Jones Street SOMETIMES say one thing, then do another.

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve heard a lot of feedback on senator Andy Wells’s essay blasting state economic incentives. People seem to feel relieved that there is that kind of conservative common sense floating

#ncga: Hastings one-ups the Speaker, Saine

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

Jason Saine charged over $19,000 in clothes to his campaign. Speaker Tim Moore had a bunch of unexplained credit card charges, as well as a bunch of rent payments to

#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

#nc-02: Nee-Nee sticks us with the bill

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

What’s bad for brawlin’ Bobby E. is apparently A-Okay for Nee-Nee. (Gosh, we’re poetic this morning.) We’ve written extensively about stuff that show up in our mailboxes here in the Second

#ncga: When all else fails, throw your campaign treasurer under the bus