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The REST of the story from the W-S voting trial / media circus

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

The drive-bys have been awfully thorough in reporting the street theatre orchestrated by The Round Rev™ and his co-conspirator Rev. Jeremiah “G-D America” Wright outside the federal courthouse in Winston.

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: a CROWD of RINOs, DEMs from House headed to budget conference with Senate

Posted on July 14, 2015July 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Last go around, the House sent 28 total conferees (including ONE Democrat).  This year, House leaders have appointed EIGHTY-TWO of the 120 House members to the conference committee.  That crowd

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: ‘I dunno. Whadda you wanna do?”

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Things are supposedly winding down in Raleigh. The GOP-controlled House and Senate are at an impasse over a state budget.  Word is that staff and non-essential legislators will be sent

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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A sobering look at NC’s fiscal health

Posted on July 14, 2015July 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The Moral Monday rabble dirtying up the streets in Winston-Salem right now likes to tell us how North Carolina is going to hell in a handbasket since the GOP took over

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics

FreedomWorks: Ellmers is NC’s most liberal GOPer in House

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

FreedomWorks — the flagship organization of the Tea Party — has issued scorecards for the current session of Congress that show Second District representative Renee Ellmers as the most liberal

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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NC-02: Duncan keeping pace with Ellmers in fundraising

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The race for the Second Congressional District is usually settled in the GOP primary.  Since 2012, those primaries have been contentious affairs featuring under-funded, lesser-known Tea Party candidates going after

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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A triumph of symbolism over substance

Posted on July 13, 2015July 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got rampant unemployment.  We are accumulating debt faster than our economy can produce value.  Our borders are being overrun by illegal immigrants.  ObamaCare is crippling the economy and killing

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, Politics
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DC Dems: Burr can be gotten in 2016

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

They’re having a hard time finding someone to step up to the plate and challenge North Carolina’s senior US senator, but that hasn’t affected national Democrats’ attitude about North Carolina

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr
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#ncpol: Ethics? What’s that? (A new grocery chain? )

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

The cloud of ethics scandal has wafted over from Jones Street to the state board of elections.  Apparently, another Republican officeholder — also an attorney — is needing a bit

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campaign 2016, NC legislature, NC State Government

Following in Greece’s footsteps?

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

The drivebys and the “wise men” in DC and on Wall Street are tut-tutting about the mess in Greece. (Thom Tillis says his “ancestral homeland” could learn something from North

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Congress, Media, Politics, Thom Tillis

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