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#NCSEN: Morrill’s lazy reporting gives Tillis a pass

Posted on February 2, 2014February 3, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I had been waiting to see what the Charlotte Observer / McClatchy’s Jim Morrill was coming out with.  I have known — for at least a week — that he

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campaign 2014, Congress, McClatchy, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: Bought and Paid For?

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

The mainstream media could do the right thing and cover the upcoming Senate contest in terms of the issues. Inform the voters, keep their readers / viewers up to date

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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NC-02: Ellmers moves put amnesty for illegal aliens at the center of her primary fight

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Renee Ellmers has been proud of her ties to House leadership.  She once slipped up — I think — in a conversation with me, referring to House Speaker John Boehner

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, Moore County, NCGOP, Politics, Renee Ellmers, Tea Party
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#NCSEN: The shih-tzu and his friends drop a deuce on the GOP field

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

N&O executive editor John Drescher must be beaming with pride at the work of his lapdog, John “the shih-tzu” Frank.  That young man sure has assimilated well into the left-wing

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Greg Brannon, Media, NCGOP, ObamaCare, Politics
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Burr disses Ted Cruz’s O-Care defund effort, intros basically O-Care Lite

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Back when Texas senator Ted Cruz was single-handedly spearheading the effort to defund ObamaCare,  Richard Burr was dismissing it as “the dumbest idea” he’d ever heard of.  We took a

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Richard Burr, Tea Party

NC-02: Getting franked by Renee Ellmers

Posted on January 31, 2014January 31, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The GOP primary challengers in congressional districts 2 and 3 were in The N&O today bashing the GOP incumbents for allegedly using their congressional franking (AKA free mailing) privileges for

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, Moore County, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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Guess what? Kay Hagan is STILL wrong.

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We posted previously about Kay Hagan’s income inequality, gender-discrimination distraction from the failures of her beloved ObamaCare.  Senator Sock Puppet is repeating Big Barry’s propaganda about women, allegedly doing the

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Kay Hagan, Media, Obama, Politics

#NCSEN: Bill Flynn Moves Out. Greg Brannon Moves IN to Thom’s neighborhood.

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

News comes today that Greensboro area radio broadcaster Bill Flynn is folding up his effort to win the GOP nomination for US Senate.  This comes on the heels of his

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campaign 2014, Congress, Greg Brannon, Media, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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#NCSEN: Socks should earn the same as SHOES. (There needs to be a law!)

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Democrat Party — desperate to change the subject from the ObamaCare debacle and save Kay Hagan’s chestnuts — are reaching back into the statist archives for an old saw:

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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The view from UNDER the bus

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

THIS didn’t take long:  A leading Republican state senator issued an apology Tuesday for his remarks skewering Gov. Pat McCrory, first lady Ann McCrory and lawmakers in a private meeting

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campaign 2014, Claude Pope, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics, Thom Tillis

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