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#ncga: TABOR terror

Posted on August 17, 2015August 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

TABOR.  (No, not the city in Columbus County.)  I mean:  Taxpayer Bill of Rights.   The very mention of it to liberals has the same effect as a crucifix or

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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What a difference 27 years makes.

Posted on August 16, 2015August 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The year was 1988.  That was the first national election I was eligible to vote in. As a young, wide-eyed bushy-tailed college kid, I had the great opportunity to watch-and-learn,

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campaign 2016, Media, Politics
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Readin’, Ritin’ & (*CRACK!*) Re-educatin’

Posted on August 15, 2015August 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

When you think of community colleges, you tend to think of things like, oh, job training and continuing education.  Somehow, on a lot of community college campuses, the lines are being

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Media, Politics
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#ncpol: Details keep dripping out on L’affaire Pittenger

Posted on August 15, 2015August 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Word came out this week that the FBI is looking at congressman Robert Pittenger’s family business.  It is *amazing* how much we are hearing about said probe from the alleged focus of

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Want TAs? Go see your local school board, superintendent

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The professional left and their driveby dictationists want you to think the honorables on Jones Street sit around debating whether Mrs. Jones’s 1st grade class at Waxhaw Elementary will get

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#ncpol: officials with controversial Charlotte-area company that paid Trump have hi$tory with $en. Tilli$

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Donald Trump Earned Huge Speaking Fees From Company Alleged To Be A Pyramid Scheme.   That’s the headline of today’s Daily Caller piece:  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was paid

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis, Thom Tillis
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#ncga: Berger & co. slap back at Gov. Pat

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

He thought it was a neat idea. At the end of last session, Gov. Pat stood with House leaders and then-speaker Thom Tillis to blast the Republican-controlled Senate.  Our chief

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Passing the plate …

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

“Are you trying to kill us? ”   That was the tongue-in-cheek question posed by the owner of the web hosting company we work with here at Haymaker HQ.  Of course, I

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Heritage Action: Jones is US House’s most conservative NCGOPer

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Walter Jones’s primary foes are working hard to paint him as a liberal and a “Pelosi Republican.”  The latest scorecard from Heritage Action ranks Jones as the most conservative House

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campaign 2016, Congress, George Holding, Patrick McHenry, Renee Ellmers, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis, Virginia Foxx
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#ncpol: FBI keeping busy in Charlotte

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Last year, we had high drama over then-mayor Patrick Cannon’s arrest and conviction on federal corruption charges.  Now, comes word that a federal investigation is touching very closely to another

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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