The Daily Haymaker

New map: A dilemma for ‘Public Official A’?

Posted on November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 by Brant Clifton

One milestone most people in politics TRY to avoid is getting mentioned in indictment documents — federal or otherwise. In his short career in DC, congressman Mark Walker

#NC-03: Wannabe Murphy aide causing confusion, giving congressman’s team a headache

Posted on November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Sometimes, folks get so enthusiastic about the candidates they support that they cause more problems than they solve. That appears to be the case with GOP activist Dianne Layden

Caught giving $$$ to Obama, Adam Schiff? Man Up, and blame it all on the women in your life.

Posted on November 15, 2019November 17, 2019 by Brant Clifton

That’s the path nominal Republican Arthur Donadio — lame duck incumbent DA Maureen Krueger’s hand picked successor — appears to have taken. And his “explanation” appears to raise

Dan The Man.

Posted on November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Bishop, that is. One of our two newest Members of Congress is demonstrating he won’t be shy about coming out swinging: While Richard Burr snivels and cowers and

Mark Johnson for, um, LtGov?

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I’ve met Department of Public Instruction superintendent Mark Johnson ONCE. What most struck me was the campaign contribution he got from Michael Bloomberg during his inaugural run for

Tillis: MORE Green cards for Indian workers to take jobs from Americans

Posted on November 9, 2019November 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

All of those “America First” and “I love Trump” ads don’t appear to match what our junior senator — up for reelection next year — is saying and

(SIGH) Once again, Richard Burr aids Left’s anti-Trump efforts

Posted on November 9, 2019November 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It looks like our senior US senator is once again giving cover to Democrat shenanigans in DC: Senate Intelligence Committee ChairmanRichard Burr (R-N.C.) said on Thursday that he

#ncga: Boss Phil executes a PERFECT full ‘Timmy’

Posted on November 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

NC PolicyWatch and The N&O are collectively soiling their Pampers over a story that senate leader Phil Berger has been using campaign funds to purchase some choice Raleigh

Misplaced outrage over l’affaire Gerlach

Posted on November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 by Brant Clifton

If you caught NC Spin this week, or read the driveby media, you saw and heard a whole lot of self-righteous outrage about the events which led to the

Moore County: Did John McLaughlin commit a ‘Lorna Clack’?

Posted on November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Some years ago, we had a rather pretentious (and awful) county school board member named Lorna Clack who lost a bid for reelection. (We like to think this