Paying to play in the US Senate
We’ve written previously about the travesty that is the fast-tracking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The details are classified. Barry Obama gets all kinds of new powers that we can’t
Continue reading#ncga House’s Martin to seek Newton’s Senate seat?
That’s the word I am hearing from various moles within the Puzzle Palace on Jones Street. As dedicated readers of this site know, senator Buck Newton of Wilson will be
Continue readingGov. Pat likes Ike. Maybe he should emulate him.
Pat McCrory loves to label himself an “Eisenhower Republican.” Dwight Eisenhower was a great military leader who — as president — regularly knocked heads with the conservative base of his
Continue reading#ncga COJONES CHECK: Berger? (Yep.) Moore? (Um, May-be.)
Well, it appears the scaredy-cats on Jones Street force-fed Gov. Pat another one of his vetoes. This one was the guv’s veto of a bill allowing magistrates the ability to
Continue readingNC-03: Tata coming after Walter Jones?
It’s no secret that Walter Jones irritates the political establishment. The GOPe tried to get him in the 2014 primary. Now, it appears they’re trying again with a new face:
Continue readingBuck Newton: Our next AG?
The Democrats have come after Wilson’s Buck Newton hard. In 2010, they slandered him as a drug dealer. (Newton went on to knock off a long-time incumbent Democrat senator.) In 2012, his Democrat
Continue reading#ncga “Ain’t skeered.”
Somebody’s feeling like quite the struttin’ bantam rooster these days: […] At Friday morning’s meeting, McCrory also had sharp criticism for his Republican colleagues in the legislature, where his bond
Continue reading#ncga: Feel like somebody’s watching you?
I talked this week with one of my moles on Jones Street. This person was absolutely floored by the amount of public feedback in this whole debate on alternative energy
Continue readingNC-02: That giant SUCKING sound
The second congressional district has a representative in DC whose attitude — and job performance — suck. Our district also has a plethora of lefty driveby outlets standing ready to
Continue readingTholl Roads. Jeff Tharte. (Thurn off the camera, Nicole.)
Oh, how things change in a year. In June 2014, senator Jeff Tarte was not interested in delaying the I-77 toll / HOT lane project in northern Mecklenburg County. In
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