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‘Pay To Play’ alive and well on Jones Street

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

When the GOP majority took over the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011, we were promised an end to pay-to-play.  Pay-to-play has typically meant the shakedown of lobbyists and other

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, Paul Stam, Politics, Thom Tillis
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EVEN MORE STUFF Timmy and John Lentz won’t tell you …

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you count on The Pilot as your main source of news in Moore County, I truly feel sorry for you.  For the most part, the newsroom’s modus operandi has

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Queen Nancy sticks it to NCDOT (DOT chief to “educate” us)

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

            We here at The Haymaker have to stand up and applaud Her Majesty, The Queen of Pinehurst,(a/k/a Mayor Nancy Fiorillo)   for speaking out

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC State Government, Politics

The Pilot’s county govt coverage: All Timmy, All the Time

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  By reading the work of staff writer John Lentz in our Bavarian Goat Farmer Association Award-winning thrice weekly local newspaper, you might think that Tim Lea is the only

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Another angle to consider in eroding Democrat base in North Carolina

Posted on September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

          Obama’s EPA is preparing to shut down more than 200 coal-fired generators.  What does that mean in terms of the big picture?  An independent group

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Campaign 2012, Media, Mitt Romney, Politics

Pinehurst: Queen Nancy expanding her domain, some homeowners catching a break

Posted on September 23, 2012September 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      Grab a chair and some popcorn, boys and girls, the Pinehurst village council is getting together again this week.  Click HERE  and HERE for details. We were

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Media trying to bail out Walter Dalton

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  It’s been looking pretty bleak for Democrat gubernatorial nominee Walter Dalton.   The average of current polling shows him losing by 12 to GOP nominee Pat McCrory.  Dalton served in

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics

Focus on tax returns, Islam video distract from Left’s failures

Posted on September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I’ve seen and heard WAY too much lately about Mitt Romney’s tax returns.  The Obama sycophants at the AP slobbered all over the Romney documents, pointing out — from the

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Campaign 2012, Media, Mitt Romney, Politics

District Court race features a super PAC, bare-knuckled rhetoric and verbal combat

Posted on September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Judicial races in North Carolina tend to be quiet, gentlemanly affairs that occur below the radar.  Not this year.  Not in our neck of the woods. Randolph County

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

“Freedom of Expression” for ME, but not for THEE

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Lefties often do amazing things with the U.S. Constitution.  Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable, warrantless search and seizures by government officials were twisted to create a “right to abortion.”  First

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics
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