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#NC-02: The three faces of Renee

Posted on September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s a classic book and a movie out there called ‘The Three Faces of Eve’ — focusing on a woman’s multiple personalities.  Here in the second congressional district, we’re ‘blessed’

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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#ncga: Six things that have slowed the budget process

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That is, in essence, what the story in today’s N&O was about.  (Off the top of our heads, we can think of at least ONE BIG obvious one.) Here is

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Dollar-Lewis-Moore counting on Dems, planning culling of conservative herd

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There WILL be war.  That’s what my sources from all four corners of Jones Street are telling me amidst the poker-game-with-other-people’s-money called “budget conference negotiations.”  Said one well-placed House GOP

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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That lonely one-way street called party loyalty. (And its sidewalks are packed with WHORES.)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We conservatives are ALWAYS lectured about party loyalty.  *We need to suck it up and support Pat McCrory, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr.*  This year, the

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#ncga: Somebody call a plumber.

Posted on September 9, 2015September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Some folks were seething inside a House GOP caucus meeting today. What were the accelerants for all that burning — that fire?  I’m told there were two things: (1) the fact

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Nelson STILL ain’t happy. (But movie incentives are BACK!)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The N&O tells us there are still ‘quite significant’ disagreements in the state budget talks between the GOP-led House and GOP-led Senate.  (According to Fox and Friends, our governor is

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Charlotte tholl road deal unraveling?

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been following the drama around the plan to toll drivers on a stretch North Mecklenburg’s I-77 since Senator Thom was merely Speaker Thom. It’s been  amazing.  Despite the tremendous

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Media, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#ncga: ABC needs to G-O.

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

As I said earlier, I spent some time over the holiday weekend in the North Carolina mountains.  I hit a few social functions that included some friends who reside in

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campaign 2016, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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The GOPe slaps back at Mark Meadows

Posted on September 7, 2015September 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

[Editor’s Note: Those of you who had hoped I had been spirited away by black helicopters never to be seen again, or had died in a fiery, explosive car wreck

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campaign 2016, Congress, Mark Meadows, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#NC-09: Primary challenge or a HINT from the establishment?

Posted on September 3, 2015September 3, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A guy named George Rouco is turning heads and being heralded as a “primary challenger” to incumbent Charlotte-area congressman Robert Pittenger (R).  But my sources in that part of the

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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