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Jones Street. The partisan index. And 2020.

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

  The North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation, a GOP-leaning establishment pro-business group,  regularly analyzes our General Assembly districts and computes things called partisan indexes.  These are sort of like the

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#ncga: 2019 legislator ratings. (Yay!)

Posted on January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 by Brant Clifton

  Art Pope, Inc. has released its 2019 conservatism ratings of our state legislators. Seventeen votes were hand-picked for the House study. (There were 15 in the Senate.)  Of course,

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Showing ID at the polls STILL “racist”

Posted on January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 by Brant Clifton

  Apparently,  the OK sign is racist.  (But the Democrat governor of Virginia wearing blackface is NOT.)   In the 1950s and 60s,  liberals got all bent out of shape

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The coming Republican crack-up?

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Brant Clifton

  Three (R)s became (U)s out in Transylvania County,  thereby costing the GOP a majority on the county’s board of commissioners:   Transylvania County Commissioners David Guice, Mike Hawkins and

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Crocodile tears over judges

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  It’s interesting to see and hear all of these Republican  bigwigs bemoan “legislating from the bench”:     Thom Tillis and Richard Burr have voted for MANY of these

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#ncga: Yoga Pants, adult beverages, and DAVID LEWIS.

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

    Oh, the things politicians will attach their names to:     Depending on who is wearing them,  Yoga pants can be the most wonderful things.   Yet,  David

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NC11: Meadows, family BACKING Lynda Bennett ?

Posted on December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  Ah, the plot thickens.  Just as it looked like Mark Meadows was setting Wayne King up for a congressional seat,  the drive-bys in   DC come up with a

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Hey, Pinehurst: Here comes the John Strickland Tax Increase!

Posted on December 28, 2019December 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I   For years,  he’s huddled in the back of the village council meeting room organizing his minions.   John Strickland  couldn’t win his last election, so he was going

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#ncga: Is primary challenge to Boles being powered by the Po-Po?

Posted on December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 by Brant Clifton

    It’s not clear whether we’re talking about a small minority of Moore County law enforcement officers  or a significant chunk.  But it is pretty clear that some active

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State incentives meant to aid poorer, rural counties go mostly to Wake, Meck

Posted on December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 by Brant Clifton

    Um,  SURPRISE ????       Plant closures and job losses have hit rural parts of our state the hardest.  Raleigh politicians talk a great game about helping

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