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#ncga: Meck GOP chairman gunning for Mike Hager

Posted on December 9, 2015December 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Somebody call Ripley’s.  Believe this or not.    My sources are telling me Mecklenburg County GOP chairman Curtis Watkins has spent the day calling all over House majority leader Mike

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Living rent-free. (And loopholes, man. LOOPHOLES.)

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Yesterday’s meeting of the House Republican Caucus only confirmed what I realized months ago: This site is living rent-free in the heads of a lot of the powers-that-be on Jones

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol: A primary for Pat

Posted on December 9, 2015December 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

He was never a go-along get-along kind of guy. He frequently called out colleagues — Republican and Democrat — when he saw them doing what he perceived was unethical, wrong,

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Lawsuit against Moore County schools administrator moves forward

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Edward Pruden was hired in August on an interim basis to fill the vacancy at the Moore County central office left by Kathy Kennedy. According to Wilmington’s Port City Daily, Pruden

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Media, Moore County, Politics
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#NC-02: Club for Growth bets it all on Jim Duncan

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The Club For Growth — arguably DC’s premier free-market, limited-government political action committee — has never been much of a fan of Renee Ellmers.  They’ve issued some harsh criticisms over the

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campaign 2016, Congress, Renee Ellmers
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#ncpol: Dallas Woodhouse is very, very, very, very, very, very, very – (um) – SORRY.

Posted on December 8, 2015December 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

At least THAT is (kinda) what the email said that he sent out to a bunch of NCGOP bigwigs last night: From: Dallas Woodhouse <dallas.woodhouse@ncgop.org> Date: December 7, 2015 at

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol: Folwell ready to tackle multi-billion $$$ state health, pension mess

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

“We’re speeding down the road at 100 miles per hour right for a $30 to $40 billion dollar wall,” said Dale Folwell, currently the only GOP candidate for the state

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campaign 2016, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncpol: Wayne Goodwin starting to draw a crowd of opponents

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It looks like North Carolina Republicans will have at least THREE choices to pick from in selecting a candidate to face off in November with incumbent Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Drive-by stupidity on parade

Posted on December 5, 2015December 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The practitioners of my former occupation never cease to amaze (or appall) me.  They regularly take the sacred rights and privileges granted to them in The First Amendment and poop

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Media, Politics

#ncsen: Thillis keeps delivering for his big donors

Posted on December 5, 2015December 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s a nasty surprise hiding in appropriations legislation currently on the Hill, and I think we have Thom The Therrible to — in part — thank for it: GOP House

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campaign 2016, Congress, Thom Tillis
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