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Did Rantin’ Robin spark an intra-party rebellion?

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  We are still feeling the aftershocks from NCGOP chairman Robin Hayes’s videotaped Tony Soprano-style shakedown of North Carolina delegates at the Tampa convention. I’ve personally heard from numerous activists

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Grassroots Republicans protest hardball tactics at GOP national convention

Posted on September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    It’s looking more and more like the DC Republican establishment has created for itself a MAJOR PR ISSUE that could blow up in the party’s collective face in

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Campaign 2012, Media, Mitt Romney, NCGOP, Politics
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Republican Liberty Caucus source stands up for Ada Fisher in RNC rule change fight

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    We recently reported on a video documenting a temper-tantrum / tirade by NCGOP chairman Robin Hayes at the national GOP convention in Tampa.  The meeting documented on video

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The DNC in NC: Whodini was wrong. (The freaks come out in the daytime, too.)

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

  There’s been a sudden explosion of purple hair and tongue-piercings in the vicinity of Trade & Tryon.  Barney Frank — a/k/a “The Banking Queen” — checked into his hotel

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Working Lands Protection Plan: a backdoor implementation of UN’s Agenda 21?

Posted on September 3, 2012September 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I’ve learned to be wary of ANYTHING containing the word “sustainable” or any organization whose name contains the word “sustainable.”  That word typically signals an intent to hamstring capitalists and

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

GOP vs. grassroots: Where to go from here?

Posted on September 3, 2012September 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I was listening to Rush discuss the flap over the rules changes at the GOP national convention.  He made an excellent point:   The establishment HAD everything going smooth.  ALL factions

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Campaign 2012, Media, Mitt Romney, NCGOP, Politics, Uncategorized
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Robin Hayes, RNC errand boy, live and in living color

Posted on September 1, 2012September 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      Some regular readers of this blog have shared a great video with me from the recently-completed national Republican Convention in Tampa.  There was some controversy that arose

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Campaign 2012, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Another member of the Richard Morgan clique abandons ship

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Now that their fearless leader has been reduced to political impotence and irrelevance, the group of General Assembly Republicans who sided with Richard Morgan to form an alliance with Jim

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, Politics

Bev’s DOT chief: It’s HARD to live on a six-figure government salary

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

        Gene Conti, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, says you need to be paid a whole lot more than the current $121,807 a year

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC State Government, Politics

Ethics & the race for NC GOV: What about Walter Dalton’s lobbyist daughter?

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

          The stenography pool in The N&O newsroom trumpeted recently an announcement of an ethics reform package by Democrat gubernatorial candidate Walter Dalton.  Apparently, Dalton wants

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Campaign 2012, Media, Politics

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