Waiting for Team Tillis to stand up and fight
It is hard to understand the squeamishness on the part of Speaker Thom & the House leadership in today’s N&O re: voter id. Speaker Tillis and Rep. David Lewis say
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Category: NCGOP
Tea Party group issues runoff endorsements: Causey, Forest, Goodwin, Keadle & Tedesco
Moore Tea Citizens — one of North Carolina’s largest TEA Party organizations — has stepped forward with its very FIRST official campaign endorsements. ( The group includes voters
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Democrat PAC smacks McCrory AGAIN
It’s the eve of the NCGOP convention, and the Democrats are carpet-bombing the guy at the top of the state Republican ticket. Another ad, questioning Pat McCrory’s ethics has
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Meet Mike Causey (R), candidate for NC Insurance Commissioner
When you first meet Mike Causey, the Greensboro Republican strikes you as way too nice of a guy to be a player in hard-nosed big-time statewide politics. He presents
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Tillman’s chicken nugget bill has good intentions, but misses the mark
State senator Jerry Tillman (R) — that body’s majority whip, who also represents Moore and Randolph counties — has pushed through legislation targeting a policy that gave North Carolina
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On eve of NCGOP convention, long knives come out
State GOP leaders are spinning the need for “unity” heading into the November general election, but a flier making the rounds of party activists suggests THAT might
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Imitation: The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
Far too often in business (and other areas of society), when someone does something that WORKS, you get all kinds of other folks doing something pretty doggone similar. Amazon rolled
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As The Budget Busts: the expensive soap opera being rolled out by Jones Street studios
We had a GOP takeover of the General Assembly which showed promise of introducing fiscal sanity to state government. The 2011 budget debate had leftists hollering about mean old
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Meet Ed Goodwin, candidate for NC Secretary of State
Most people, when they hear the words ‘secretary of state’, they think of foreign policy and Hillary Clinton. The position of North Carolina Secretary of State plays a significant role
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L’affaire LaRoque: C’est fini?
Well, it appears embattled Republican legislator and state House Rules Committee chairman Stephen LaRoque is DONE. The recount in his apparent May 8th loss to challenger John Bell confirmed that
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