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#nc-02: D’Annunzio dives into US House fray

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We warned you.  And now it’s happened.  Deep-pocketed Raeford businessman Tim D’Annunzio filed Tuesday for the GOP primary for North Carolina’s Second congressional district.  He and Jim Duncan are the

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#ncpol: Team McCrory playing hardball in Meck toll dispute

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve written extensively about the I-77 toll road dispute in northern Mecklenburg County.  it’s been quite heated.  It cost — and came close to costing — some area politicians their

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Tim Moore’s casino deal about to get some BIG-time DC help?

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A proposed casino for the Kings Mountain, NC area has been quite a controversial subject in western North Carolina AND  in the halls of power in Raleigh: The Catawba Indian

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#ncgop: Oops, he did it AGAIN.

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Some people learn — painfully — not to touch the hot stove.  Others keep touching the hot stove hoping that it will eventually not burn their fingers.  Larry Holmquist of

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#ncga: Curtis, we hardly knew ya.

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Here’s the announcement from the Mecklenburg County GOP’s Facebook page: “The work he has done this past year”  ????  Is she talking about his effort to recruit opponents against Republican

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John Hood: Donald Trump is a BIGOT

Posted on December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s pretty apparent that Raleigh’s *Mr. Conservative* doesn’t think much of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump or his supporters: THAT –my friends — is sarcastic repartee in the vein of

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#ncga: MeckGOP chairman doubles down on dissing Hager, floats trial balloon about state Senate run

Posted on December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I am baffled as to how Curtis Watkins still has his post with the party.  (But then again, Dallas Woodhouse is STILL employed by the NCGOP.)  If you haven’t been

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Rucho Roars at MeckGOP chairman

Posted on December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A dentist-turned-legislator sounds like he wants to perform a root canal on his county party chairman — without anesthetic. We told you last week about MeckGOP chairman Curtis Watkins trying

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Moore, Montgomery taxpayers to EAT $100K in economic development #FAIL?

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s what we’re hearing.  Influential folks in high places are telling us that Moore County Partners in Progress — the county’s economic development group — and Montgomery County are planning

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#ncpol: John Locke, neutered?

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve had my suspicions about what HAS or HAS NOT been going on within the John Locke Foundation lately.  The so-called hotbed of free market thought in North Carolina has

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