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#ncgop: Michelle Nix, independent candidate

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hearing  that NCGOP vice chairman candidate Michelle Nix is being wooed ‘hot-and-heavy’ by the camp of the establishment candidate for state party chairman, Craig Collins.  We’re hearing it

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#ncgop: Claude Pope endorses Collins in chairman race

Posted on May 1, 2015May 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The outgoing state party chairman has joined the rest of the elected and unelected party establishment in endorsing 10th congressional district GOP chairman Craig Collins to be the next state

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#ncga: The Hamlet of Cherryville

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s an old saying about how when you find yourself in a hole you need to stop digging.  (It took a while for Renee Ellmers to grasp that with her

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#ncga: drones and waivers, oh my.

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The House Judiciary IV committee had a hearing this morning.  (Of course, we had moles in the room.)   One of the topics they discussed was the new regulations governing

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#ncga: Of drones and men …

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’m the last guy to throw in with the black helicopters and tin-foil helmet crowd.  But I found some language in the new state rules for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS,

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#ncga: A rumble at the Republican caucus meeting?

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Everybody seems to be buzzing about the upcoming Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.  I am thinking the Blust-Hastings matchup might get just as interesting.  We documented an earlier exchange between Reps. Kelly Hastings

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#ncga: PTSDed House leaders relent under pressure from ‘silly fringe websites’

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I got word yesterday from a House mole that we’re STILL living rent-free in the brains of state House leadership:  “A directive was sent out in the Republican caucus.  We

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#NCGA #TBT Key player in Jim Black Scandal lives again

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

(Ah, the *good* old days.)  It seems like just yesterday that eye doctor from Matthews and that portly fellow from Moore County were roaming the House chamber wreaking havoc ,

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#ncga: It’s ALL about cronyism, self-protection

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

State Rep. Kelly Hastings was one of the five Republican legislators whose votes helped derail an effort to kill state alternative energy mandates and lower consumer electric bills.   His vote

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#NCGA: Rep. Hastings, getting an education on Facebook

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I cut my cable TV cord six years ago.  And I haven’t missed it a bit.  Thanks to my Internet thingie (and my army of moles) I stay on top

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