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Grab your umbrellas. (Watch for falling drive-by crocodile tears.)

Posted on August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  During the Richard Morgan-Jim Black reign of terror in the North Carolina House (2002-2006) it was quite common for “enemies” of House leadership to be assigned to windowless, out-of-the-way,

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A financial investigation at NCGOP?

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  That’s what one line item in the state party’s financial report appears to indicate:     Here’s the website for Wilmington’s Financial Forensic.     According to the website, here

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The NCGOP: Speaker Timmy’s kid on the payroll. Michele Nix’s $$$. A $500K hole. (Who crashed the day care van?)

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

  It’s always fun to take a peek at how the state party is spending what money it still has.  Especially now that Dallas & The Defendant are gone from

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campaign 2019, Media, NCGOP, Politics

Does Congress’s budget deal mark the end of the Tea Party?

Posted on August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  That’s what Rand Paul  said on Wednesday:   Sen. Rand Paul, who was first elected in 2010 as a one of the original tea party candidates, declared the movement

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#hayesscandal: Kicking the can down the road

Posted on August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  Defense lawyers seem to be having their way with this one.  The US attorney is a former Mecklenburg County DA who happens to be BFFs with Thom Tillis.  The

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Moore County D.A.’s race: incumbent Krueger OUT, challenger Hardin now unopposed.

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  It was looking to be a tough reelection bid for Maureen Krueger anyway.  A lot of people are still angry at her for so publicly meddling in the last

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campaign 2020, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Tillis teams with Dems to enact race, gender quotas for federal patents

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

  His campaign is mouthing a bunch of nonsense about how much he love Trump and how conservative he is, but Thom Tillis’s own Senate website tells a different story:

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The omitted details on the latest entry into the NC LtGov race

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

Campaign materials are identifying him as  “Iraq War Veteran and current North Carolina National Guard soldier” Greg Gebhardt.  But they left out some other important details: He’s registered with the

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campaign 2020, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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NC SPIN cut by UNC-TV (Grandpa Tom sees black helicopters, hidden hand of Harry Smith)

Posted on July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  Tom Campbell needs to wake up and smell the coffee.  He has been the face of a product that few people have wanted, and has been living on borrowed

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Tillis leads effort to keep crony capitalist Ex-Im Bank alive & kicking

Posted on July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 by Brant Clifton

  The Ex-Im Bank guarantees loans to foreigners so they can purportedly buy US-made goods.  (Though, how much is actually MADE here anymore?)  Conservatives cry foul over the continued existence

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