Category: NCGOP

#ncga: Some common sense on the gas tax, NC Competes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

House speaker Tim Moore and the rest of the GOP leadership in Raleigh are crowing about how much better off we’ll be now that they’ve approved an increase in the

NCGOP once again meddling in local politics?

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Are Republican power-brokers in the state trying to manipulate party organizations at the local level? It’s starting to look that way. We reported on US Rep. Renee Ellmers issuing an

#NCGA: Speaker’s team issues talking points to help spin NC Competes Act & gas tax hike

Posted on March 7, 2015March 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our cadre of spies on Jones Street has struck pay-dirt once again. We have in our clutches a March 6 email authored by Mollie Young, House Speaker Tim Moore’s director of communications. The

#ncga: More gas tax for US, and NO gas tax for airlines

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Talk about great big ones. The same guy who wants us all to pay more for gas in our cars wants to let airliners with a presence in North Carolina

#ncga: Tax-and-spend Republicans

Posted on March 5, 2015March 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Why vote FOR Republicans, if they are going to simply do what the Democrats WOULD have done had they been in charge? That’s a question to ponder in the

#ncga: Who the #@*$ is in charge here ?????

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

From what Jones Street insiders are telling me, Cumberland County Rep. Rick Glazier (D) is the closest thing to a leader in the General Assembly’s lower chamber. And HE is

#ncga: A mad rush to leech on to the state employee health plan

Posted on March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Senator Bill Rabon is quite the trailblazer. We reported earlier on his efforts to get the town employees of Southport — his hometown — onto the state employees’ health plan.

#ncga: YET ANOTHER screwy deal on jail food service

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Brant Clifton

What is it with cutting special insider deals on feeding jail inmates? We reported earlier on an effort in the House to seek a no-bid deal for food service to

Ellmers cheerleading for No Child Left Behind reauthorization

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Tea Party and anti-Common Core activists are up in arms over the proposed Student Success Act (HR 5) under consideration in the Congress. The legislation basically extends the life of

#ncga: Spanish language web site says GOP rep. STILL on board for driver licenses for illegals