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#ncpol: Meet the chairman of the House Committee on BIG Cojones

Posted on July 29, 2015July 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There he goes again, showing his colleagues how to behave like a conservative.  One has to wonder how long it will take for Patrick McHenry (R-NC-10) to run whining to

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campaign 2016, Congress, David Rouzer, George Holding, Mark Meadows, Patrick McHenry, Renee Ellmers, Richard Hudson, Virginia Foxx, Walter Jones
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Shuler-ly, you jest.

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Team McCrory’s official propaganda organ (state-run media) dropped a headline on us SO PREPOSTEROUS it might as well have said “The fat guy in the red suit really is going

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campaign 2016, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: It’s Monday. What are we hollerin’ about today?

Posted on July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A throng of The Round Rev’s filthy and / or addled followers formed a “half-circle” in Raleigh yesterday. (They apparently didn’t have enough for a FULL circle.)   It was time for

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Carolina Rising is McCrory’s “hitman” on senators

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Since our story from yesterday, we’ve gotten all kinds of communication from Raleigh insiders pinning the push-polling against three key GOP senators on Carolina Rising, a 501-c(4) run by former

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Is Team McCrory issuing political ‘hits’ on Senate leaders?

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It sounds like something out of one of The Godfather movies, or the final days of Nixon.  But the reports we’re getting make that headline look like a real possibility.

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#NCSEN: Tillis slams Cruz

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Well, all of you folks who held your nose in the 2014 US Senate race — look at what you got:  […] Afterward, in a fiery floor speech Friday, Cruz

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campaign 2016, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#CHANGETHATNAME : Movement to give Locke’s Hood more ‘sensitive’ name catches fire

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve received an awful lot of comments — online and offline — regarding the comments by John Hood this weekend on NC Spin.  (Granted, a lot of people were interested

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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John Hood. (Just WRONG.)

Posted on July 26, 2015July 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

This weekend — like a handful of other North Carolinians — I tuned in to NC Spin to see what the Inside-The-Beltline crowd was babbling about.   John Hood —

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Media, Politics
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Ted Cruz preaches. (We say ‘AMEN!’)

Posted on July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve been missing Jesse Helms.  I got to watch the man up close for nearly two years in DC.  The guy didn’t play the Washington game.  He called a spade

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campaign 2016, Media, Politics
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#NC-02: 77 percent of Ellmers 2015 $$$ from PACs

Posted on July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s right.  According to congresswoman Renee Ellmers’s filings with the FEC, roughly 77 percent of her 2015 fundraising came from PACs and other assorted special interest groups. From January 1

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Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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