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About those ALLEGED drastic education spending cuts …

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      Some rather duplicitous candidates and granola-munching activists are bemoaning an alleged lack of funding for education needs in Moore County.  The problem with their harrangue is —

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics

Around the world with Renee (and the lobbyists)

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Government records show that lobbyists paid for congresswoman Renee Ellmers, her husband, and her chief of staff to visit Turkey and Israel in August and October of 2011. From 8/13/11

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Economy, Media, Moore County, Politics

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas

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

    I’ve continued my perusal of Renee Ellmers’s campaign finance report.   Check it out HERE (specifically p.94).  It appears that her reelection campaign fund picked up the tab

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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Guilty conscience wreaking havoc in The Pilot’s newsroom?

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

I guess South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson finally got to the fiction-peddlers in The Pilot’s newsroom. Here we are — one week before the vote — and we finally get

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Campaign 2012, Media, Moore County, Politics
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Southern Pines, Pinehurst mull economic development

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s being reported that Pinehurst, Southern Pines, and Aberdeen are each being asked to pony up $2,500 for the opportunity to have a movie or two shot within their borders.

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Economy, Moore County

Thom’s Team LUVs lobbyists

Posted on May 2, 2012May 2, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The other –um, high-heeled — shoe has dropped. It’s been learned that state House Speaker Thom Tillis has discovered ANOTHER of his employees having a romantic relationship with a registered

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis

Ellmers enjoys another FIVE-DIAMOND getaway thanks to her campaign fund (stocked mostly with lobbyist dinero)

Posted on May 2, 2012May 3, 2012 by Brant Clifton

  While our state and nation’s economies tank — while the unemployment rolls grow — while families are struggling to pay their bills — congresswoman Renee Ellmers  has enjoyed yet

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Economy, Media, Moore County, Politics
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Pants on Fire: What are you cutting, Renee?

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

      South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson is talking to Renee Ellmers again. In today’s Raleigh News & Observer, congresswoman Ellmers speaks up in support of her boss John

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Campaign 2012, Congress, Media, Politics, Renee Ellmers
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Forget the whales and the dolphins. Save the Speaker! (Save Thom !!!)

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The state’s economy is in the tank.  Our debt is growing by the minute.  Unemployment ranks are growing.  And what is the Raleigh political class doing?  Plotting to save poor

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Campaign 2012, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis

Only in the federal govt: $20K is ‘an acceptable loss’

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

    Just when you think you’ve seen and heard it all about the idiocy within the federal bureaucracy — something else comes along to take the cake. I was

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Campaign 2012, Economy, Media, Politics

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