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#NCSEN Harris year-end campaign report: $$$ from TWO state senators, STILL NO Hayes $$$

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Much has been made about the support Thom Tillis’ US Senate campaign is receiving from his colleagues at the legislative building on Raleigh’s Jones Street.  But Charlotte pastor Mark Harris’

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campaign 2014, Congress, Mark Harris, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Arizona & the Gay thing: Common ground for SoCons, constitutionalists

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Social conservatives and libertarians tend to find themselves at odds on some things.  Some social conservatives like to see government provide protection for traditional values.  Libertarian-leaning folks believe the government

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WRAL’s chief news fabricator sinks his teeth into Greg Brannon

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Binky & The Shi-Tzu are the two primary cartoon characters responsible for providing us our statewide political coverage in the mainstream media. We gave mad props to the shih-tzu earlier

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: And the special interest money train rolls on …

Posted on February 25, 2014February 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The FEC FINALLY updated the itemized info on donors to Thom Tillis’ US Senate campaign in the third quarter of 2013 (October 1 to December 31).  And — as expected

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: Playing footsie with the sock puppet

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

You can almost feel the breeze from the mainstream media’s collective sigh of relief.  Kay Hagan — New York senator Chuck Schumer’s sock puppet™ — has filed for reelection.   I

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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Club For Growth grades our folks in DC for 2013

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Club For Growth — a DC-based PAC that emphasizes support for lower taxes and free market measures — loves to hold the feet of politicians in both parties to

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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The best government money can buy

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Erick Erickson, over at RedState wrote something really profound the other day: “If Democrats in control of government is more of a  problem to you than government itself, then YOU

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: Harris campaign challenging narrative of Tillis inevitability

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There’s been quite a bit of suspicion for some time that Charlotte pastor Mark Harris’ Senate campaign was merely a stalking horse to peel Tea Party votes away from  Greg Brannon.

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campaign 2014, Congress, Mark Harris, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: And NOW for THE REST of the story …

Posted on February 24, 2014February 24, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Binky, The Shih-tzu, and the rest of their knucklehead mainstream media pals have been piling on Greg Brannon these past few days — amid giggling from Brannon’s political foes —

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Tea Party
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#NCSEN: Establishment doubles down on Tillis

Posted on February 21, 2014February 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina state House speaker, and US Senate candidate, Thom Tillis has picked up the endorsement of the DC-based Business & Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC).  The group is closely

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Mark Harris, Mark Harris, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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