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JoCo leaders reject CSX / State of NC land grab. (Psst – CSX didn’t need govt $$$ or heavy-handedness in OH or PA deals.)

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

We’re told, in a bipartisan fashion, by the ruling class that you have to hand out money and favors in order to get business to commit to doing business in

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol: Polling, press releases & pabulum. N&O laziness extends from NC-02 over to NC-07.

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Young Mr. Campbell has apparently learned well from Jedi master Rob. *Why bother making calls and digging when someone has already pretty much written the story for you?* “Rep. Rouzer:

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campaign 2016, Congress, David Rouzer, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Trump & ‘F-You Politics’

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Brant Clifton

In 1988, as a wide-eyed, bushy-tailed College Republican, I was marching along with the Bush For President bandwagon.  He had been my hero’s right-hand man for eight years.  Surely, he’d

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol Dazed & Confused & Lazy: Old Man Rob takes on the NC-02 race

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

For some reason, Rob Christensen is heralded as some wise oracle of North Carolina politics.  I guess it’s because he’s been around so long.  But does hanging around for a

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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#ncga: smoke, mirrors, Jones Street and the treasurer’s office

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Brant Clifton

There is an eye-opening report out from the highly-respected, free market-oriented Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  Apparently, something may be rotten in Princess Janet’s kingdom:  […] Real state spending per

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics

#ncpol NC-07: Rouzer applauds, then runs from CSX’s JoCo land grab

Posted on January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It should not come as a shock to anyone that a politician (1) takes a position, and then (2) runs like hell from it.  But doing it so blatantly –

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campaign 2016, Congress, David Rouzer, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: A conservative direction? (THAT is not what the numbers tell us.)

Posted on January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 by Brant Clifton

If you believe the GOPe campaign rhetoric, they’ve got our state headed in a “conservative direction.”  *Wow.  That sounds great.  We must be cutting taxes and the size of government

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol: Taken

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Imagine that someone rings your doorbell, announces they are with Mega-Corporation X, and that they are going to give you Y-amount of dollars for your property.  You aren’t interested in

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics
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#ncga: Last (political) rites for Jamie Boles?

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Some well-plugged in observers in this yellow-dog Republican county say state Rep. Jamie Boles (R) is an incumbent who very well can lose his renomination bid in March. Boles is

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campaign 2016, Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics

#ncga: Rabon, Cobey & GOPe cronies come out of closet for Grange

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Raleigh is making it clear who they want to succeed Rick Catlin in Wilmington-centered house district 20.  Our pal Lady Liberty has managed to get a copy of an invite

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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