Yesterday’s meeting of the House Republican Caucus only confirmed what I realized months ago: This site is living rent-free in the heads of a lot of the powers-that-be on Jones
Continue readingSomething called “Conservatives for Clean Energy” had a shindig in Greensboro on Tuesday and it attracted a gaggle of legislators trolling for bribes contributions: Solar power and other forms of
Continue readingOur capital city is all abuzz about the recent expose by McClatchy on our governor, his deep-pocketed buddy, and said buddy’s contract with the state prison system. Granted, it was
Continue readingPoliticians using the public treasury to pay off or payback cronies back home is nothing new. But it is something different when the crowd that spent decades griping about such
Continue readingTHAT 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
Continue readingBrian Brown. Jacqueline Schaeffer. Rayne Brown. Leo Daughtry. Paul Tine. Skip Stam. That’s an awful lot of folks bailing out of Jones Street’s lower chamber majority. Could some folks be
Continue readingApparently, some heat is being felt about those $15,000 payouts from the House caucus campaign treasury. One wel-placed source within the House GOP camp offered up THIS defense of those
Continue readingThere’s, um, a bit of hubbub going on about the election process power grab recently rammed through the General Assembly. Amidst all of this, we managed to get our hands
Continue readingWe hear a lot of lip service from Republicans in Raleigh about the beauty of the free market. However, it took a lot of grassroots heat to get them to
Continue readingSome 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
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