The Daily Haymaker

The House Majority Leader has a new job. (um, thanks, Timmy?)

Posted on August 30, 2020August 30, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Business NC has all the details: Rep. John Bell, R-Wayne, the majority leader of the N.C. House of Representatives, has joined Rise Capital, a private equity business

Former Dem candidate now aiding Harnett Republican campaign

Posted on August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Joe Langley really wanted to go to Raleigh. He tried, as a Democrat, to knock off now-former state senator Ron Rabin(R) in 2014. In 2012, he tried, as

State Employees Association endorses folks on both sides of aisle in 2020

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Brant Clifton

The State Employees Association of North Carolina long had the reputation as a mouthpiece for Democrats. But lately, they’ve been throwing some love over to the right side

Tillis, Burr, and other NCGOPers push for MORE migrant workers

Posted on August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 by Brant Clifton

We get ads from NFIB claiming Thom Tillis is “fighting to save North Carolina jobs” and then we hear THIS: A few months before mass joblessness

For Harnett YRs, it’s ALL about the pizza. (Oh, and soda and bowling too.)

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

The great philosopher Diddy once told us “It’s all about the Benjamins.” For The Harnett County Young Republicans, it appears to be ALL about Domino’s Pizza. Don’t

FINALLY getting WHAT he DESERVES?

Posted on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 by Brant Clifton

I knew something didn’t smell right with that whole ” resigning to spend. more time with my family” spiel state Rep. David Lewis (R-Harnett) gave us at the

Judge bucks Forest, backs Cooper on coronavirus executive orders

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Lt. Governor Dan Forest has made quite a bit of hay over Roy Cooper’s unilateral decisions to lock down and strangle the state’s economy. Forest expressed a

NO JAIL for Robin Hayes ?????

Posted on August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

That’s where this appears headed. If you read the court documents, you will have seen that the former congressman and state GOP chairman facilitated the attempted bribe of

Harnett GOP throws curveball in replacing David Lewis

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

He was chairman of the county board of commissioners. He lost his March primary. Why not send Howard Penny to Raleigh? That’s what Harnett Republican leaders

Curiouser and curiouser: The fight to replace David Lewis

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Conservatives in Harnett County got some apparent good news when they heard local party chairman Maggie Sandrock was going to toss her hat in the ring to replace