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#ncpol: Team Pope protecting Pat about planes?

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Civitas and The John Locke Foundation have long billed themselves as non-partisan, conservative watchdogs looking out for the interests of the taxpayer.  They went hard after former Democrat governors Mike

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campaign 2016, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: HB2 FOR DUMMIES (Pay attention, Colin & Binky. THIS will be on the quiz.)

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It seems like the drivebys are having a contest to see who can use some form of the words “bigot” and “hate”  (i.e., bigoted, hateful, bigot, bigot-a-licious) in the fewest

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Richard Burr: HB2 went “too far”

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Brant Clifton

A few years back, he told us trying to defund ObamaCare was ”the dumbest idea” he’d ever heard — shoving a knife in the back of conservatives attempting a last-minute

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr
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#nc-08: Following the Hudson money

Posted on May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 by Brant Clifton

As of March 31, Richard Hudson is showing more than a million bucks in his campaign kitty — with more than 2/3 of it coming from PACs and other special

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Hudson
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#ncpol: Amnesty and the June primary

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Donald Trump has made immigration a major issue in the presidential race.  On the congressional level, a number of candidates on the ballot for the June 7 primary have staked

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campaign 2016, Congress, George Holding, Renee Ellmers
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Traditional values crowd showing NO LOVE to Burr-Thilli$

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Brant Clifton

In 2010, we heard about how extreme left Elaine Marshall is.  In 2014, we heard about how often Kay Hagan voted with Obama.  Well, we made our choices in those

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campaign 2016, Congress, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis
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#nc-02: Two guys, a girl and a Crabtree

Posted on May 22, 2016September 24, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Well, WRAL hosted a debate featuring the three candidates for this US House seat Thursday night.  Here’s the video.  Of course, I watched — so you don’t HAVE to, and

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campaign 2016, Congress, George Holding, Renee Ellmers
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NC-03: National Tea Party leader smacks Griffin over Jones-Iran ad

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The political world is buzzing about this ad produced by Republican congressional candidate Taylor Griffin alleging that Walter Jones — of all people — took sides with Barack Obama. It’s

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campaign 2016, Congress, Walter Jones
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Guess What? Civitas OWNS Carolina Plotthound.

Posted on May 21, 2016May 21, 2016 by Brant Clifton

For those of us who thought something funny was going on at “North Carolina’s go-to political news web site”, a simple search of whois records confirms our suspicions. According to

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Burr, Thilli$ do Obama a solid.

Posted on May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 by Brant Clifton

This post in National Review’s The Corner blog sums up the, um, *benefits* of a “Republican Senate” in the Obama era nicely: To nobody’s surprise, the Lee amendment to defund

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr
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