The Daily Haymaker

#ncga #ncgop: Rolling out the spooked skunk strategy

Posted on November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Those of us who have spent time outside the big city are familiar with the habits of the common American skunk. When those creatures get cornered, or feel threatened, they

#ncga: Breaking News! Folks on Jones Street SOMETIMES say one thing, then do another.

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve heard a lot of feedback on senator Andy Wells’s essay blasting state economic incentives. People seem to feel relieved that there is that kind of conservative common sense floating

#ncga: Hastings one-ups the Speaker, Saine

Posted on November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Jason Saine charged over $19,000 in clothes to his campaign. Speaker Tim Moore had a bunch of unexplained credit card charges, as well as a bunch of rent payments to

#ncga: GOP senator slams state Commerce Dept., economic incentives AND Atlanta

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s kind of refreshing to hear this talk from one of the powers-that-be on Jones Street. Here’s Senator Andy Wells (R – Alexander, Catawba): It wasn’t news when a report

#nc-02: Nee-Nee sticks us with the bill

Posted on November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

What’s bad for brawlin’ Bobby E. is apparently A-Okay for Nee-Nee. (Gosh, we’re poetic this morning.) We’ve written extensively about stuff that show up in our mailboxes here in the Second

#ncga: When all else fails, throw your campaign treasurer under the bus

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We reported yesterday on the heat House speaker Tim Moore is getting from a driveby TV station in his home turf. We saw video from said driveby TV program which

I-77 tholl foes turn their focus onto State Rep. Charles Jeter

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

He’s lil’ Tricia’s faaaaaaaaaavorite Republican. He’s the Republican most likely to take a walk when a vote on something actually in line with the GOP platform comes up. He’s also

#ncga: A Speaker and his Money

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

It’s always been said that –when you make it to the top — you become a more appealing target. House speaker Tim Moore is apparently learning that the hard way

#ncga: Senator Berger PREACHES IT.

Posted on November 6, 2015November 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The state Senate’s big kahuna went in front of the biggest, most-prominent Common Core-loving, spend-more-and-more-and-more money crowd and told them a few things I am SURE they didn’t want to

Those CHURCH people