The Daily Haymaker

#ncga: Affa-David Lewis says ‘ALL is well’ with voter ID

Posted on June 20, 2015June 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

You can tell when Raleigh starts feeling the heat on something. They tend to dispatch underlings bearing emails to calm the peons outside the beltline. And we happen to have a

#ncga: Fletch OWES

Posted on June 20, 2015June 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Electorally speaking, things weren’t so tough for senator Fletcher Hartsell from 2012 to 2014. So, why did he personally dump six figures into his campaign fund during that time? Hartsell

#ncga: Fletch Rents

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Political consultant do a lot of things for their clients. Not many play landlord for them. We’ve been following the unusual case of state senator Fletcher Hartsell (RINO-Cabarrus) —

#ncgop: Todd Poole, the establishment’s last stand?

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s a new player in the state politics blogosphere. It’s run by former McCrory administration employees. It’s financed by folks close to the governor. It puts out the GOPe(stablishment) spin.

#ncga: Affidavits instead of photo ID?

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Incredible. It is amazing that something that is sooooo common sense is having such difficulty navigating through the conservative revolution: Voters who do not have photo identification would be able

#Pinehurst: ”You come at The Queen, you best not miss.”

Posted on June 18, 2015June 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

“You come at the king, you best not miss.” — Omar Little, HBO’s The Wire ____________________________ We’ve been hearing all kinds of off-the-record rumblings about this year’s mayoral race for

#ncga: A little Susi and Trish time on Twitter

Posted on June 18, 2015June 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’re on Twitter here. You can waste a lot of time there if you’re not careful. There are all kinds of people — from all political stripes and varying levels

#ncga [ Heard the one about the RINO and the prosecutor? (Stop US if you have …) ]

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

It took two-and-a-half years, but state Senator Fletcher Hartsell’s (RINO-Cabarrus) campaign finance / ethics case is going to get some attention from an actual bona fide prosecutor: More than $600

On the air with Hasan Harnett

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The newly-minted chairman of the NCGOP took to the airwaves this morning on Greenville-based WTIB’s “Talk of the Town.” Guest host Doug Raymond spent about 20 minutes picking the brain

#NC-07: Rouzer needs to read The Constitution TOO!

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

Dingbat disease is spreading from the Second Congressional District over to the Seventh. We wrote earlier about Renee Ellmers’s mind-blowing defense of TPA and TPP. It appears David Rouzer