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#NCSEN: 2nd amendment in the crosshairs

Posted on April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 by Brant Clifton

One of the few flashpoints in last night’s GOP candidate’s forum came when the discussion turned to gun rights.  The drive-by questioners, of course, took the lefty route by alluding

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Mark Harris, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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WRAL #NCSEN debate pre-game show: It’s O-Care, Stupid! (Binky, up close & personal)

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If you didn’t get enough excitement from last night’s extravaganza in Davidson, flip on over to Raleigh’s WRAL TV tonight for Round 2. Mark Harris really fumbled a great opportunity

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Mark Harris, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN Debate post-game: RobC, Morrill need to talk; set up stupid format, blame the candidates for boring content

Posted on April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 by Brant Clifton

It’s always charming when two geriatric liberals attend the same event and come away with two very different accounts. Exhibit One: The N&O’s Rob Christensen — the man who managed

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Mark Harris, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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NC-02: Who do you hate the least?

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Brant Clifton

McClatchy’s DC bureau has tackled the District 2 GOP primary for the US House with its usual modus operandi: Prop up the person or institution propagating the expansion and vitality

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Moore County, NCGOP, Politics
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#NCSEN: The debate pre-game show

Posted on April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Tonight, at 7 PM, it’s ON like DONKEY KONG.  Tune to NewsChannel 14 or browse to charlotteobserver.com or newsobserver.com to catch all the action in the greatest bit of political

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Mark Harris, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Spanish toll co.’s recent woes a bad omen for NC’s HOT lane plans?

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Brant Clifton

State House speaker Thom Tillis and Gov. Pat McCrory’s DOT board are singing the praises of High-Occupancy Toll lanes to help finance road construction across the state.  Tillis has been

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campaign 2014, Media, Politics
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A House Committee on Food Desert Zones. Seriously ?????

Posted on April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Yep.  The honorables in the House of Thom have established a committee on food desert zones.  That’s desert as in Sahara, and NOT as in cherry cheesecake  (YUM). What’s a

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campaign 2014, Economy, Media, NC legislature, Politics
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#NCGA: A few recommendations for our friends out there

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Early voting gets started this week.  We’ve got some primaries out there.  We also have a lot of folks out there who are unopposed for renomination.  A great way to

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campaign 2014, Media, Politics
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#NCSEN: GOP legislator raises questions about speaker-turned-candidate Tillis

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

The feud between GOP state Reps. Robert Brawley and Thom Tillis is bubbling up again here late in the 2014 primary season.  Brawley went public with his issues about Tillis,

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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(Meet your new mailman.) The bureaucracy locks and loads.

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Looking at these photos, you might think they come from the battlefront in Afghanistan.  Nope. Sorry.  Actually they were taken during a repo / collection action carried out by federal

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Politics
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