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GOPe abandons the BIG LIE, confesses they are REALLY all-in for Whatley

Posted on September 6, 2025September 6, 2025 by Brant Clifton

We caught onto the Republican establishment’s game early-on.  Our 2026 Senate race – at least on the GOP side — will be one big game of Pretend.   Pretend there

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, Mitt Romney, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics, Ted Budd, Thom Tillis
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You KNEW there HAD to be BIG CA$H circulating behind the scenes

Posted on September 4, 2025September 4, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The Foreign Doctors Act that whizzed through our bought-and-paid-for General Assembly in late-June, early-July has the state’s voters hopping mad. It clearly establishes special treatment for doctors imported from overseas

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Some less-statist, less-destructive ideas about addressing an alleged *rural health care crisis*

Posted on August 31, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here’s some food for thought from 2022.  North Carolina Republicans in state government seem to think lowering standards and turning a blind idea to immigration issues is the way to

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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The SCC Files: Getting REALLY expensive to build this stuff NOBODY asked for

Posted on August 30, 2025August 30, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Folks in and around Moore County have been hearing about this proposed “innovative high school”  on the campus of Sandhills Community College.  They also heard, I’m sure, about the $25

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Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics, The Sandhills Files

The SCC Files: Tax lien explained (kinda, but NOT REALLY)

Posted on August 30, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The financial management side of things at Sandhills Community College has provided us with quite a bit of fodder in recent months.  We told you about the disastrous audit produced

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Education, Media, Moore County, NC State Government, Politics, The Sandhills Files

NC’s Largest Insurer buys bunch of clinics JUST BEFORE the legislature lowers standards

Posted on August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 by Brant Clifton

They have an army of Raleigh insiders lobbying for them.  They spread their cash around to state lawmakers like Halloween candy.  When Blue Cross says JUMP, Raleigh’s political elite regularly

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics
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General Assembly’s ‘rural health’ bill could actually sink health care AND NCGOP political fortunes

Posted on August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 by Brant Clifton

They claim their masterpiece will “fix” an alleged “doctor shortage” in rural North Carolina by importing a bunch of docs from around the world.  The imports won’t necessarily have to

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campaign 2026, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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DC Republicans slipped $$$$ to Whatley campaign before he even announced.

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Brant Clifton

If it wasn’t enough to hear the GOPe tell you the primaries are irrelevant — if it wasn’t enough to watch party leaders blatantly violate party rules against meddling in

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics
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Guess what? Tillis STILL screwing over President Trump

Posted on August 25, 2025August 25, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis: an anus until the very end. In the last Congressional session — before the kibosh was put on conservative rankings – Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders was voting to

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campaign 2026, Congress, Media, Michael Whatley, NCGOP, NCSEN26, Politics
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NC OAH judge Michael Byrne to seek NC Court of Appeals seat

Posted on August 21, 2025August 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Wake County attorney Michael C. Byrne — an administrative law judge with the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) — has announced his decision to seek the GOP nomination

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campaign 2026, Media, NCGOP, Politics

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