Arrivederci, Rucho!
State senator Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenburg), his body’s Finance Committee chairman, threw everyone a curve ball by announcing his decision to not seek reelection. He’s been quite a force on Jones
Continue reading#ncgop: Circling the wagons around Lewis?
We wrote earlier about petitions being circulated to demand a vote on removing state Rep. David Lewis (R-Harnett) as one of North Carolina’s two representatives to the Republican National Committee.
Continue readingLGBTQ 101
Nope, sorry. THAT is NOT a course offering in the UNC-Chapel Hill curriculum catalog. It’s actually one of the latest continuing legal education offerings from the Mecklenburg County Bar Association.
Continue readingI-77 tholl spat causes some pro-tholl pols to lose their seats
There was a great lesson for the political ruling class in Mecklenburg County yesterday. Dismiss the people and run roughshod over them AT YOUR OWN POLITICAL PERIL. We have written extensively
Continue reading#ncga: Need campaign help? Look no further than the Maryland DMV.
He loves his solar panels (and the accompanying government subsidies). He’s got a Democrat lobbyist / campaign consultant working out of the offices of his trucking company. He’ll go for
Continue readingPinehurst 2015: The smoke clears. Bouldry, Cashion and Fiorillo left standing.
It’s over. (Thank God.) It’s been a strange campaign. From our standpoint here at Haymaker HQ, things have been going well in the Village of Pinehurst. This current council
Continue reading#ncpol: Using an RPG to swat a fly
Our capital city is all abuzz about the recent expose by McClatchy on our governor, his deep-pocketed buddy, and said buddy’s contract with the state prison system. Granted, it was
Continue readingIn Kinston, It’s ALL relative.
The politicians in this eastern North Carolina town have succeeded in uniting conservative activists AND the NAACP on an issue. And that issue is nepotism in city government: […] There
Continue reading#ncga: A candidate to keep an eye on in SE NC
State Rep. Rick Catlin (R-Wilmington) is calling it quits. Catlin had a rather moderate reputation in the House. (He scored a gentleman’s C+ in the 2014 Civitas conservative rankings. A
Continue readingNC-03: Wow. Taylor Griffin IS being bankrolled by Wall Street & K Street.
We’ve written extensively about this heightened environment of influence-buying in American politics. Over in the Third Congressional District GOP primary, we’ve got a clear example of deep-pocketed influence-peddlers in DC
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