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Craven-Tillis tiff dominates 3rd CD GOP meeting

Posted on June 2, 2013June 4, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    You knew things were going to get interesting in New Bern this weekend when all non-members of the 3rd congressional district GOP executive committee were kicked out of

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Slash & Burn: NCGA sources say speaker’s team seeking censure of Brawley, encouraging negative rumors

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    Some of you outside the Charlotte area may have missed THIS INTERVIEW with state Rep. Bob Brawley on WBT radio.  [Fast forward to the last three minutes, and

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campaign 2014, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Getting filthy rich off of Uncle Sam

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        I realize the economy stinks.  But The Wall Street Journal lets us know that NOT EVERYONE is suffering: On a bright spring morning, Debbie Driesman and

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Economy, Media, Politics

The congressional farm bill: growing the welfare state, passing around Pork, spreading more fertilizer

Posted on June 1, 2013June 2, 2013 by Brant Clifton

          North Carolina’s senators, Kay Hagan (D) and Richard Burr (R), are teaming up to fend off purported cuts to federal subsidies for tobacco insurance.  

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campaign 2014, Congress, Economy, Media, NCGOP, Obama, Politics
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E-Mail: Craven GOP chair thought Tillis censure, letter, and meeting were A-OK from the start

Posted on June 1, 2013June 1, 2013 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been getting disturbing reports from on-the-ground in Craven County about how county GOP chairman Paul Hill has changed course on — and is now opposing — the Tillis censure

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Thom Tillis? FOR SENATE ? (Ya Don’t Say.)

Posted on June 1, 2013June 1, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Well, the worst kept secret in North Carolina politics got “let out of the bag” today — state House speaker Thom Tillis is jumping into the 2014 US Senate GOP

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Obama, Politics, Thom Tillis
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Sources: NCGOP HQ siding with Tillis re: spat with Craven GOP

Posted on June 1, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      We broke the story yesterday about the vote in Craven County to censure state House Speaker Thom Tillis.  Now come word, from sources close to the censure

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campaign 2014, Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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Southern Pines paper’s op-ed editor upset about presence of so many military in the area

Posted on May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 by Brant Clifton

        Steve Bouser, editor of our world-class, multiple Nobel Prize and Lambda Award-winning thrice  twice-weekly local newspaper here in Moore County recently had a meltdown, which he

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Media, Moore County, Politics
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CENSURED: Craven Co. GOPers have some choice words for The Speaker

Posted on May 30, 2013June 1, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      The executive committee of the Craven County Republican Party has voted to issue a letter of censure against state House Speaker Thom Tillis. (Read it in its

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Common Core, our kids, our state’s future, and surrender by the NCGOP establishment

Posted on May 29, 2013May 29, 2013 by Brant Clifton

  Recently, I’ve been subjected to some insinuations that my Christianity and my conservatism are in question because I dare to raise questions about the leadership of the North Carolina

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campaign 2014, Education, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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