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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

I’ll take endangered big spenders for a trillion, Alex

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  The folks at the NRCC in Washington have come up with a creative little web site that should appeal to the fans of the popular long-running game show Jeopardy.

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Democrats, Larry Kissell, Media, Politics

Property rights, economic development questions for Southern Pines, Pinehurst councils

Posted on May 31, 2012May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

            There was an interesting line in a recent Pilot story about Pinehurst’s new budget: […] Another $252,000 is in the budget for the construction

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Campaign 2012: crotch-punching returning to center-stage?

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

This year’s gubernatorial campaign is looking more and more like an economic stimulus program for members of the state bar association. We’ve got the Pat McCrory campaign retaining lawyers to

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Campaign 2012, Law & Order, Media, NC legislature, Politics

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