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Drip — Drip — Drip: Details slowly leaking out on Cowell, Bowles and Facebook

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

          John Frank and The N&O have decided to finally start sniffing around about Janet Cowell’s Facebook gambit with state employee retirement funds: State Treasurer Janet

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics

A travesty of justice in Moore County with a tragic ending

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

          The body of a thirty-something Moore County woman was found Wednesday near the county landfill in Aberdeen.  Check out one of the news accounts: A

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Campaign 2012, Law & Order, Media, Moore County, NC State Government, Politics
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The Pilot’s county government coverage goes from BAD to WORSE

Posted on August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

        I thought it would be hard for The Pilot to put someone worse than Florence Gilkeson on the county government beat.  But there is a new

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Campaign 2012, Moore County, Politics
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Timmy and his fertile imagination keep stirring up trouble

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      A local politico — and faithful reader of this site — forwarded to me an email Moore County commissioner Tim Lea sent to him and several other

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

NC Secretary of State debate: Goodwin lays the smack down, Marshall dodges and lies about her record

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

        The two candidates on the November ballot for North Carolina Secretary of State faced off in a spirited debate in Raleigh Thursday evening.  Incumbent Secretary of

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Missouri and Medicare. The STUPID PARTY rides again

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Many years ago, columnist George will coined the phrase “The Stupid Party” to describe the GOP establishment and its stupefying habit of taking a situation — tailor made for the

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics
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Emails from Speaker Tillis, other lawmakers raise suspicions of lobbyist shakedowns

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

        Some lobbyists recently received an email from the reelection campaign of House Speaker Thom Tillis asking for money.  State law prohibits lawmakers from soliciting lobbyists for

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis
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October trial for Thom Tillis ally Stephen LaRoque? (Wait. There’s an election in NOVEMBER …)

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The folks at NCPolicyWatch — who have led the way in reporting on corruption allegations against Richard Morgan and Thom Tillis ally Stephen LaRoque — say that it looks good

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Moore County government internal documents paint rosy fiscal picture

Posted on August 22, 2012August 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Sometimes, here at The Haymaker, things just mysteriously drop into our laps.  (Those doggone little birds … ) We happened to get our hands an email sent out by Moore

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Janet Cowell & Erskine Bowles: Quid Pro Quo on Facebook fiasco?

Posted on August 20, 2012August 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      After  our recent post on Facebook’s woes potentially impacting the race for North Carolina state treasurer, I got a call from a faithful reader of this site

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics
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