Robin Hayes: “It ain’t MY fault.”
It was just 2012 in Tampa when then-NCGOP chairman Robin Hayes was caught on camera brow-beating his state’s delegates in a manner that surely had Lyndon Baines Johnson looking up
Continue reading#ncga: Solar. Mike Hager was AGAINST IT (before he started lobbying FOR IT)
For those of you sold on the concept of former state Rep. Mike Hager as some kind of principled, rock-ribbed conservative — think again. Hager established quite a record
Continue reading#ncga: It lives. (Again)
Robbie Ferris and the folks at First Floor Energy Positive are getting another crack at the public cash trough. With former House majority leader Mike Hager leading the lobbying effort
Continue reading#ncgop district conventions roundup: Dallas, YOU have a problem.
It was not a good day to be Dallas (or his grandpa). In the First Congressional District, Thomas Hill — who, in 2013, guided his county party to endorse
Continue readingAn “Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence”???? (Holy crap.)
Let’s see. The GOP still controls state government. They still dominate the UNC governing boards. Their appointee, Margaret Spellings, is STILL president. So, what is the deal with creating positions
Continue readingMark Binker, RIP.
The passing of former WRAL reporter and current Insider editor Mark Binker was certainly a shock. It’s one thing to tease or challenge or debate someone. It’s all part of
Continue readingIs the NCGOP paying for Robin Hayes’s “private” plane?
At first glance, the answer would appear to be an emphatic “YES.” To find stuff like this, you have to really dig into the byzantine flings submitted to the Federal
Continue reading#ncga: The tuition may be $teep, but the speech will be FREE.
So sayeth the honorables on Jones Street: […] The bill has been championed by Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest and Republican lawmakers. It would require the UNC Board of Governors
Continue reading#ncpol: Mr. Popularity
Leftists are all giggly over an Elon poll reportedly demonstrating declining support for Donald Trump in North Carolina. Republicans counter with a Morning Consult poll showing Roy Cooper as merely
Continue reading#ncga: Solar goons + Lumbee Indians + cronyism (The sequel?)
Last session’s SB554 had all of the elements of pure political sketchiness: subsidies for solar energy, legislation tailored to meet the needs of very specific business interests, and key legislator
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