Category: NCGOP

Richard Burr, lawyering up.

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Brant Clifton

He’s been hit with all kinds of bad publicity about his stock trades that coincided with special briefings he received as Intelligence Committee chairman. One investor has filed suit

Cooper: Booze is ‘ESSENTIAL’

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Especially if it’s being peddled via a state-subsidized monopoly: This week, both Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) announced statewide executive

While Tillis panders on “price-gouging,” Locke’s Sanders makes A LOT of sense

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Everybody who has taken an economics class knows that when the supply of something is low, and demand is up, the price generally goes UP. But statists

Outside help coming to protect NC elections, DO Josh Stein’s job FOR HIM

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by Brant Clifton

You might remember J. Christian Adams. He is the former US Department of Justice attorney who raised a fuss about the Black Panther voter intimidation efforts in the

NCGOP state convention postponed until June

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by Brant Clifton

As we said before, even politics is being shaken up by the pandemic. Here’s NCGOP chairman Michael Whatley: Due to the national health emergency caused by the

Tillis getting dragged into Burr mess?

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Believe it or not, the one who appears to be doing the dragging is a Republican congressman known as a solid conservative and rock-solid Trump loyalist on Capitol

Dale Folwell tests positive

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 by Brant Clifton

State treasurer Dale Folwell — one of the dwindling number of true (elected) public servants we have left in state government — confirmed in a release today that

Turning up the heat on ‘Tricky Dick’

Posted on March 25, 2020March 26, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Our senior senator — a guy who has survived so many elections by people reassuring / saying to themselves “He’s better than Erskine Bowles / Elaine Marshall /

Coronavirus brings changes EVEN to politics

Posted on March 21, 2020March 21, 2020 by Brant Clifton

State Republican Party officials successfully kicked off a series of party conventions this weekend that took place completely online. Republican Parties in North Carolina and Utah are the first

What IF Richard Burr’s Senate seat were to become vacant?

Posted on March 21, 2020 by Brant Clifton

With various folks in the conservative media calling for our senior senator’s resignation and prosecution for insider trading, all kinds of questions are being raised. One big one for