#ncpol: When Indian casino lobbyists attack
Pete Benton probably thought his Saturday morning was going to be simple. He had been asked to be a surrogate for congressman Walter Jones at the Craven County GOP convention.
Continue reading#ncga: Kelly Hastings and his campaign finances. (*SIGH*)
We’ve reported at length on state Rep. Kelly Hastings and the, um, adventurous style with which he manages his campaign finances. His year-end 2017 report is living up to the
Continue reading#ncga: NC Dem poll info on House races ????
It appears the North Carolina Democrat Party may have shared some info on internal polling with the girl from the steno pool at Spectrum News. You know Spectrum. It’s that
Continue readingAmid congressional spending orgy, Thilli$$$ gets his cheap labor
Pelosi and Schumer are doing back-flips celebrating the massive spending that just made its way through the “Republican” Congress. The Chamber and the GOPe are dancing a jig because, once
Continue reading#ncga: The NC Republican Senatorial Committee and the SD-25 GOP primary
Remember those “affiliated party committees”? They got rammed through Jones Street in response to the election of Hasan Harnett to the NCGOP chairmanship. *Can’t have the unwashed Tea Party hordes
Continue reading#ncpol: “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate!”
I’m going to delay commentary momentarily. I want you, dear readers, to see if you can find what’s wrong HERE: In one press release, the NCGOP Communications team has managed
Continue reading#ncpol: Haywood County. (Here we go again.)
It appears NCGOP attorney Tom Stark is taking a break from his Herculean — some might say quixotic — campaign to unseat Durham’s senator Floyd McKissick to resume beating up
Continue reading#ncga: Tide pods? (*Yummy!*)
The N&O’s AndyPaul Speck (*Spock? Spoke? Specht?*) — heir apparent to Colon “Toilet Boy” Campbell and John “The Shih Tzu” Frank — does a bang-up job transcribing and publishing crib
Continue reading#ncga: In 2018, Byrd just MIGHT be THE WORD
Moore County’s Jamie Boles has had it relatively easy in his decade in Raleigh. The Republican, representing state House district 52, easily knocked off a troubled incumbent in a crowded
Continue readingThe REAL Helms legacy
Jesse Helms was arguably the man who made being conservative AND Republican cool in North Carolina. His televised editorials opened a ton of eyes and stimulated a lot of deep
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