#ncga: Six things that have slowed the budget process
That is, in essence, what the story in today’s N&O was about. (Off the top of our heads, we can think of at least ONE BIG obvious one.) Here is
Continue reading#ncga: Dollar-Lewis-Moore counting on Dems, planning culling of conservative herd
There WILL be war. That’s what my sources from all four corners of Jones Street are telling me amidst the poker-game-with-other-people’s-money called “budget conference negotiations.” Said one well-placed House GOP
Continue readingThat lonely one-way street called party loyalty. (And its sidewalks are packed with WHORES.)
We conservatives are ALWAYS lectured about party loyalty. *We need to suck it up and support Pat McCrory, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr.* This year, the
Continue reading#ncga: Somebody call a plumber.
Some folks were seething inside a House GOP caucus meeting today. What were the accelerants for all that burning — that fire? I’m told there were two things: (1) the fact
Continue reading#ncga: Nelson STILL ain’t happy. (But movie incentives are BACK!)
The N&O tells us there are still ‘quite significant’ disagreements in the state budget talks between the GOP-led House and GOP-led Senate. (According to Fox and Friends, our governor is
Continue readingCharlotte tholl road deal unraveling?
We’ve been following the drama around the plan to toll drivers on a stretch North Mecklenburg’s I-77 since Senator Thom was merely Speaker Thom. It’s been amazing. Despite the tremendous
Continue reading#ncga: ABC needs to G-O.
As I said earlier, I spent some time over the holiday weekend in the North Carolina mountains. I hit a few social functions that included some friends who reside in
Continue readingThe GOPe slaps back at Mark Meadows
[Editor’s Note: Those of you who had hoped I had been spirited away by black helicopters never to be seen again, or had died in a fiery, explosive car wreck
Continue reading#NC-09: Primary challenge or a HINT from the establishment?
A guy named George Rouco is turning heads and being heralded as a “primary challenger” to incumbent Charlotte-area congressman Robert Pittenger (R). But my sources in that part of the
Continue reading#ncga: Changing their tune on primary date. (Hearing footsteps? Smelling the smoke of the mob’s torches?)
At first, legislative leaders — led by Rep. David Lewis — were cheerleading hard for moving North Carolina’s presidential primary from May to March. The move, he and his allies
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