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Apparently, The drivebys STILL don’t GET Google ads.

Posted on December 8, 2016December 9, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The crusade against ‘fake news” rages on.  Question:  WRAL’s Binky — Raleigh’s very own Ted Baxter — reported a few years back that the late senator Martin Nesbitt called former DHHS

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Sex changes. State funds. (Oh, my.)

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Brant Clifton

State senator Andy Wells (R-Hickory) has decided he’s going to go poke the radical homosexual hornet’s nest, too:  […] The Trustees who run the State Health Plan faced a tough

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: In planning for 2017, harken back to the 80s

Posted on December 7, 2016December 7, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Yes, it was a good decade.  I was a rookie in the political game.  Republicans won the lieutenant governship, governorship, and president.  The Reagan Revolution — we thought — was

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An Insider’s take on the downfall of Gov. Pat

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Brant Clifton

There has been a lot of interesting feedback on my autopsy of the McCrory era.  One piece of feedback, in particular, was especially intriguing.  It comes from a Team McCrory

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Roy straps on his safety helmet, preps for his new, um, “job.” (Game ON.)

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Brant Clifton

He’s done little but run for governor on the taxpayer’s dime for the last four years.  He did nothing to fix the totally FUBARed state crime lab – – costing local

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#ncpol: Pat, we hardly got to know you.

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Brant Clifton

So, our third Republican governor since Reconstruction is going down in history as the first North Carolina governor to be voted out of office.  Some people have laughably tried to

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Rep-elect Boswell already showing promise

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Earlier, we told you about Jimmy Dixon flipping his lid over an email from a freshman legislator? Well, here’s what set him off:  Subject: Interests/Goals Good Evening Sirs. It was

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Jeter’s final campaign report: $$ for gas, ding dongs and soda; little to nothing for successor, colleagues

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It hit the papers that Charles Jeter would be quitting the NC House on July 25.  Yet, instead of leaving something for his successor, sharing with his soon-to-be-former colleagues, or

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics

#ncga: Charles Jeter lands on his feet — and BACK IN our wallets

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The last time we saw Charles Jeter, he had barely escaped a conservative primary challenge.  (The challenge was not surprising.  According to the ACU, Jeter was the most liberal Republican

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Want a friend in Raleigh? (Get yourself a mean old man.)

Posted on December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Dallas Woodhouse did it.  Now, apparently, Speaker Timmy is following suit.  In the wake of Charles Jeter’s departure from the House, that chamber’s littlest BIG KAHUNA was in need of a

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