The Daily Haymaker

#ncgop: Pope OUT, MCHenry ally IN?

Posted on March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Sources tell me that members of the NCGOP Executive Committee were informed via email this morning that current state party chairman Claude Pope will not be seeking another term in

#ncga: Some common sense on the gas tax, NC Competes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

House speaker Tim Moore and the rest of the GOP leadership in Raleigh are crowing about how much better off we’ll be now that they’ve approved an increase in the

#ncga: GOP leaders passing stuff with Democrat votes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In Washington, House speaker John Boehner has shown he has no issue with pushing legislation that flies in the face of the GOP platform and needs Democrat votes in order

NCGOP once again meddling in local politics?

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Are Republican power-brokers in the state trying to manipulate party organizations at the local level? It’s starting to look that way. We reported on US Rep. Renee Ellmers issuing an

#NCGA: Speaker’s team issues talking points to help spin NC Competes Act & gas tax hike

Posted on March 7, 2015March 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Our cadre of spies on Jones Street has struck pay-dirt once again. We have in our clutches a March 6 email authored by Mollie Young, House Speaker Tim Moore’s director of communications. The

NC-02: Ellmers wades into contested county GOP chairman election

Posted on March 7, 2015March 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Only a small sliver of Cumberland County sits in the Second Congressional District, but incumbent US Rep. Renee Ellmers is extracting her dark brown nose from leadership rectums on Capitol Hill

Pro-Amnesty Group praises Ellmers, Pittenger & co. for their “courage”

Posted on March 6, 2015March 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The establishment crowd is pulling out all the stops to save Big Government Barbie and her friends: The American Action Network, a group allied with House Republican leadership, is placing

Nurse Ellmers Goes to Guatemala

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

What the world needs is more nurses in power. THAT appears to be the thesis of an op-ed written by Reps. Renee Ellmers(R-NC) and Diane Black (R-TN) about their recent

#ncga: Lights, Camera … WELFARE !!!!

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Well, they approved $45 million in corporate welfare after turning down TWENTY MILLION for being too much last session. Movie incentives also got shot down. So far, this year it

#ncga: More gas tax for US, and NO gas tax for airlines