The Daily Haymaker

Gas taxes: We’re #10! (nationally)

Posted on August 3, 2018August 4, 2018 by Brant Clifton

As campaign season gears up, we’re hearing all about this tax being cut and that tax being cut. But one place we can’t seem to get any relief is at

Lobbying firm behind dark money PAC promoting GOP House candidates?

Posted on August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Ward and Smith, as a firm, is one of the big-dog legal players in North Carolina. The New Bern-based firm is well-known in the legislative building on Raleigh’s Jones Street

N&O P.O.S. kicks a dead man’s corpse

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Brant Clifton

WRAL political reporter Mark Binker passed away in 2017. During his career. We begged to differ with a lot of his output. In our opinion, Mark regularly abused the freedoms

#ncga SD-25: Lexo strikes back. McInnis, confused. Dallas practicing law without a license. (Film at 11.)

Posted on July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Just four months in front of an election, it sounds like things are not so hunky-dory and lovey-dovey here in the Sandhills: Demonstrating just how rankled local Republicans still are

Speaking of Socialism …

Posted on July 31, 2018August 4, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The s-word appears to be the popular buzzword this campaign season for GOPe types. We’re eight years into state government’s alleged conservative revolution. State government keeps spending more and more.

#ncga: Shouting “socialism” in a rubber room

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Brant Clifton

You can tell election time is getting close. State Rep. Bob Steinburg and his team are revving up the whisper & slander machine that so effectively eviscerated primary opponent Clark

#ncga: Changing the rules at the last minute. Heading to court.

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Brant Clifton

So, we’ve got two different cases of the majority on Jones Street changing the rules governing this year’s elections at the last minute. Both cases appear to be headed toward

#ncga: Steinburg Invitational STILL the talk of Currituck

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Brant Clifton

It appears Currituck county officials have shoved their tourism director out in front to try and put a positive spin on their decision to pay state Rep. Bob Steinburg $50,000

#ncga: Indicted aide STILL steering Steinburg senate campaign

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Bob Steinburg and his crew LOVE to tell you what’s wrong with everybody else. (They’ll even make it up if they have to.) Bob himself doesn’t miss a chance to

#ncpol: Our (“Corrupt”?) useful idiot in DC

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Brant Clifton

I’m more of the opinion that Dick Burr is just not that smart. But this blogger has him pegged with the (bad) c-word: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)