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#ncga: Showing up is half the battle.

Posted on April 27, 2015April 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’re seeing a lot of chest-thumping from a lot of folks talking about what a player he or she thinks she is on Jones Street.  But we’re finding that a

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Chris Millis legislation TOO LIBERAL ????

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Yep.  THAT is the main argument being pushed by Rep. Kelly Hastings (R-Gaston, Cleveland), one of several GOP legislators IDed by Civitas for being a little too cozy with left-wing environmental

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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NC-02: District GOPers pass resolution condemning corporate welfare, targeted economic incentives

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

At their convention this weekend, Second Congressional District Republicans passed a resolution condemning the use of taxpayer money to, um, “persuade” businesses to come to North Carolina or to expand

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Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncga: Tempers appear to flare as GOPers take renewable energy debate to social media

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The folks at Civitas have done a bang-up job HERE and HERE of exposing and detailing a rather unseemly relationship between Republican legislators, political consultants, and left-wing environmentalists regarding government

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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NC-02: Jim Duncan steals the show at district’s GOP convention

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

Over 200 Republican leaders in North Carolina’s Second Congressional District gathered in Sanford today for their party’s district convention.  As expected,  there were candidates for the 2016 election cycle pressing

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Congress, Renee Ellmers
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#ncga: Religious Freedom cojones-check time. (McCrory? Nope. Forest? Yep. Moore? No. Berger? Um, May-be.)

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

The drive-by media are becoming quite proficient at fake news.  They’ve created crises out of thin air in Ferguson, Missouri; the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case in Florida; the so-called loose

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncgop: NC’s RNC rep campaigning for chairman candidate Collins

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

Some months back, NCGOP establishment types issued a proclamation that current party chairman Claude Pope is out and that SOMEBODY named Craig Collins would be IN.    Since then, the coronation

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Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Gaston YR straw poll: Daoud leads NCGOP chairman field

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

A Republican organization in the backyard of establishment favorite Craig Collins has released the results of a straw poll showing Collins in second place in the race for the NCGOP’s

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Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#ncgop: Oh, look! Unpaid bills.

Posted on April 24, 2015April 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We wrote earlier about some heartburn within the NC House GOP Caucus about campaign finance practices.    Roughly $250,000 in unpaid vendor invoices were found tucked away in a drawer.  Also,

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Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Burr + Tillis: yes AND no on Loretta Lynch confirmation

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Talk about profiles  in courage.  *There’s nothing better to make you stand up and salute someone who takes both sides of an important issue.*  Thom Tillis is learning his way

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Congress, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis
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