The Daily Haymaker

#ncga: I KNOW I left that $17K laying around here SOMEWHERE!

Posted on August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 by Brant Clifton

The House majority leader is a busy guy. Sometimes, all of that bookkeeping and keeping track of money stuff can get in the way. Just look at this from his

#ncga: Paying yourself to campaign for, um, YOURSELF.

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Brant Clifton

After six years of observing these folks on Jones Street, I don’t get surprised anymore. They’ve all got campaign funds stocked mostly by lobbyists with needs from the General Assembly.

#ncpol: Um, Party Disloyalty?

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Brant Clifton

WRAL ran this cutesy item about one Charlotte mayoral candidate getting some help from the other side of the aisle: […] State Sen.Joel Ford‘s mayoral bid in Charlotte got a

#ncpol: Thilli$$$ picks a fight (with a GIRL)

Posted on August 6, 2017August 6, 2017 by Brant Clifton

When it took you thirty-some years (some 17 community colleges and an online correspondence program) to get your bachelor’s degree, it takes some pretty big cojones to act all superior

#ncga: Finance is HARD.

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Brant Clifton

He’s chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and vice-chairman of the House Finance Committee. He’s got a lot of say in the financial affairs of state government (as well as

#ncga: Auditing Mr. Saine

Posted on August 4, 2017August 5, 2017 by Brant Clifton

He’s vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee and Senior Chairman of the Finance Committee. He has a lot of say on issues relating to the state’s finances and the your

Thilli$$$ theams with Dems to Thry and Thump Trump

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Our very own ethically-challenged junior senator is once again “crossing the aisle.” Thom The Therrible and his sidekick Susie spent the entire Republican National Convention following the Trumps around, trying

#ncga: Rallyin’ against RINOs

Posted on August 1, 2017August 1, 2017 by Brant Clifton

THAT is what they will be doing in Raleigh Thursday. As the “honorables” stagger back into town for their litigation-inspired special session, the good folks at Grass Roots NC will

#ncpol: NCDems give NCGOP a fundraising spanking

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Brant Clifton

We were told North Carolina Republicans NEEDED Robin Hayes. He’s a fundraising impressario, we were told. Cash rains down on him. Let’s see how he’s done: The North Carolina Democratic

How’s THIS for “party disloyalty”?

Posted on July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Reports of conservative activists in western North Carolina being allegedly persecuted and harassed over “party disloyalty” for the offense of criticizing the ruling NCGOP junta in Raleigh have us thinking.