The Daily Haymaker

#ncga: GOPer Brown leaving Jones St. to work for Thillis

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The GOP caucus in the North Carolina House will have one less familiar face when the next session starts up. State Rep. Brian Brown (R-Pitt) released this info to his

#ncga: From solar to HEMP (here we go again … )

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Thanks to a grassroots uproar, the whole solar subsidies scam got sideswiped and derailed. But it appears, according to Civitas, that ANOTHER SCAM has sneaked in under the radar: Wh[at] does

#ncgop: Impeachment for ‘gross inefficiency’

Posted on October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Seriously? We can do that? (Wow. Talk about a great method for down-sizing government.) There were fireworks this weekend when Third Congressional District Republican leaders got together. They had state

#ncgop: County party chairmen lash out at Berger, Moore re: H373, S119

Posted on October 4, 2015October 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The furor over that affiliated committees mess is not dying down. I had been hearing that Speaker Tim Moore and President Pro Tem Phil Berger have been getting an earful

#ncgop: Gettin’ all stupid up in here!

Posted on October 2, 2015October 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

”Yo, you don’t even know what stupid is. It’s about to get all stupid up in here!” — Michael Scott, Dunder-Mifflin Paper Co. ——————————- All of the spin about unity

Heritage Action: Jones top NCGOP conservative in DC; Ellmers, Tillis and Burr most liberal NCGOPers in Congress

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Heritage Action has updated (as of October 10 their Congressional score cards. For the North Carolina delegation, Walter Jones is on top with a conservative ranking of 89 percent.

#nc-03: Emerson Electric, Boehner tag-teaming Walter Jones?

Posted on October 2, 2015October 2, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s what it looks like. Take a gander at this invitation for a September 29 fundraiser in DC for Jones’s primary opponent, *local boy* Taylor Griffin: Subject: Fwd: Taylor Griffin Please Join

The problem with the VA: illustrated in ONE voicemail

Posted on October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

My top secret hotline rang unexpectedly today. I saw on the caller ID that it was a number I did not recognize from Fayetteville. So, I decided to introduce the

#ncga: We don’t need exceptions. We need a REPEAL.

Posted on October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve recently heard news about the General Assembly issuing “exceptions” to the state Certificate of Need rules to Belhaven hospital and another one out in western North Carolina. For

#ncpol: RIP, NCGOP

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s a new day in North Carolina politics. We’ve been saying for a while that the political parties no longer matter much. They are a great vehicle for getting the