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Facebook: the new battleground for GOP nod in Insurance Commissioner race

Posted on June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  I know it’s tough to evaluate candidates for down-ballot races.  Sure, it’s pretty easy to separate the wheat from the chaff in the governor and presidential fields.  But when

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics
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GOP-controlled U.S. House: more debt in 15 months than in ALL of the first 97 Congresses COMBINED

Posted on June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      It took nearly 200 years for previous Congresses to do what John Boehner, Eric Cantor and the rest of the Honorables have managed to do in 15

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Politics

“Let’s play CHANGE THE SUBJECT!”

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    All of us have things that we REALLY don’t  want to talk about.  State Democrats DON’T want to talk about Barry Obama, John Edwards, David Parker, Jay Parmley,

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, Politics

Tea Party group issues runoff endorsements: Causey, Forest, Goodwin, Keadle & Tedesco

Posted on June 2, 2012June 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Moore Tea Citizens — one of North Carolina’s largest TEA Party organizations — has stepped forward with its very FIRST official campaign endorsements. ( The group includes voters

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, NCGOP, Politics
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Democrat PAC smacks McCrory AGAIN

Posted on June 1, 2012June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  It’s the eve of the NCGOP convention, and the Democrats are carpet-bombing the guy at the top of the state Republican ticket.  Another ad, questioning Pat McCrory’s ethics has

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Meet Mike Causey (R), candidate for NC Insurance Commissioner

Posted on June 1, 2012June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  When you first meet Mike Causey, the Greensboro Republican strikes you as way too nice of a guy to be a player in hard-nosed big-time statewide politics. He presents

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Politics

Endorsements Time!

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Two Council of State races with runoffs on July 17 have had some movement in the endorsement area. Mike Causey and Richard Morgan are facing off in the

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics

Tillman’s chicken nugget bill has good intentions, but misses the mark

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  State senator Jerry Tillman (R) — that body’s majority whip, who also represents Moore and Randolph counties — has pushed through legislation  targeting a policy that gave North Carolina

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Campaign 2012, Education, Media, Moore County, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

On eve of NCGOP convention, long knives come out

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      State GOP leaders are spinning the need for “unity” heading into the November general election, but a flier making the rounds of  party activists suggests THAT might

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Campaign 2011, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Why is this man smiling? (Answer: He — um — GOT OFF.)

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

          After lengthy deliberations, a federal jury has found former senator (and all-American baby-daddy) John Edwards not guilty on one criminal count, and got hung up

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Campaign 2012, Congress, John Edwards, Media, Politics

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