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Thom & Renee: the hit of The Ripon Society’s party

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

For those of you who may not be familiar with this Ripon crowd, they were founded to counter the rise of the Goldwater / Reagan people in the GOP and

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Thom Tillis
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Checking in with ol’ Thom

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Those of us on the right were told to relax — give the man some time.  Our reservations about the prospect of US Senator Thom Tillis would prove to be

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Heritage Action: Jones, Meadows NC’s top conservatives; Ellmers, Burr most liberal GOPers

Posted on June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

According to the folks over at Jim DeMint’s shop, the two guys in our delegation in the most trouble with leadership are doing the best job of abiding by the

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Fletch flounders

Posted on June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politics is a lot like business in the real world.  In business, people form relationships with people because they need something from them.  In most cases, those relationships end when

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics

Pedicures: For when you just can’t keep your foot out of your mouth

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Pat McCrory never ceases to amaze me.  I have never seen anyone in elected office work so hard to tick off each and every possible segment of his or her

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Aaaaand Mr. Blust has the floor …

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It looks like we have quite a food fight brewing among Republicans representing the Greensboro area. Check out this email sent by Rep. John Blust (R) to his colleagues in

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#NC11: Mark Meadows, Street Fighting Man

Posted on June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy ‘Cause summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy Well what can a poor boy

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campaign 2016, Congress, Mark Meadows, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Blinkin’ Chris strikes AGAIN?

Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I happened to stumble across a Blinkin’ Chris commentary on WRAL radio while driving around today.  Of course, the blinkin’ one was in his typical ‘damn the republicans’ mode.  But

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, Politics

#ncga: Tax ALL the things!

Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Check out this doozy in the latest version of the budget, H.97, being kicked around Jones Street (p.491, lines 8-9): […] A privilege tax is imposed on a retailer engaged

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: WHO is Joseph Dollar?

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

“Who is John Galt? ” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged ——————————— Bob Dole has been renowned for referring to himself in the third person.  Could we have a similar case RIGHT

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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