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#NCGA: Bill reversing 2013 E-verify water-down intro’ed in House

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Governor Pat McCrory knocked heads with the General Assembly — and lost — on the issue of waiving the use of E-verify to do residency checks on temporary workers across

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCGA: Bill limiting elected official voting power has Harnett County riled up

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Legislation seeking to limit the powers of local elected officials in Duplin and Harnett counties has the Harnett County board of commissioners and board of education hopping mad and facing

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Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government

NCGOP exec dragged into Guilford GOP $$$$ brouhaha

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

GOPers in the Greensboro-High Point area are still a little sore about the fallout from a March dinner honoring retiring congressman Howard Coble.   It appears that an official with

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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How much will be ENOUGH? Moral Monday-style “Mo’ Money” demands hit Moore County AGAIN

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

It’s starting to sound like a broken record.  Every year, the political hacks over at the Moore County public schools’ central office whip up public hysteria against the county commissioners.

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, Moore County, Moral Monday, NC legislature, NC State Government, Politics

Burr-McCain-Flake-Coburn VA bill a good first step, but needs to go FURTHER

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Reports are out that our senior US senator has joined fellow Republicans McCain of Arizona, Flake of Arizona, and Coburn of Oklahoma in sponsoring a bill to make significant changes

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Congress, Media
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#NCGA: Another bill watering down E-Verify introduced in House

Posted on June 3, 2014June 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In 2013, Gov. Pat McCrory lost a veto fight with the legislature over the use of E-Verify for checking citizenship of workers in North Carolina. Late last week, some Republican

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campaign 2014, Economy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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BOHICA Alert: Jacking up our electric bills to save us from the ‘horror’ of carbon dioxide

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

You expel CO² every time you exhale. It’s found in your sodas and beer. It’s found in baking soda.  The word is that that about the only risks related to

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Obama, Politics
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#NCSEN: ”Did I say ‘unelectable’? I meant UN-Baptist.”

Posted on June 1, 2014June 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I wanted to be wrong about Mark Harris.  My first thought — when the Charlotte pastor filed for US Senate — was that he was a plant, a stalking horse,

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Congress, Media
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Some food for thought on independent campaigns, write-ins, and forming new parties

Posted on May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There is still a lot of grumbling out there among conservatives in the wake of the recently completed primaries.  An effort is alive to stage a conservative write-in effort for

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Are Bill Barber & The NCDP writing N&O headlines, now?

Posted on May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Hmmm.  Misleading information in the N&O.  I know, I know.  What else is new?  But today’s edition really takes the cake.  The headline on the lead story this morning on

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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