The Daily Haymaker

Even MORE on Renee’s campaign money

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

My friend Al Lytton inspired me to keep rooting around on this subject. We’ve got a report on a BB&T account with NO ACTIVITY for 2011 being reported to

More on Ellmers campaign finances

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I got a nice note from Al Lytton, congresswoman Renee Ellmers’s chief of staff, this morning (while I was in church celebrating Easter): Brant,

Renee Ellmers: BROKE?

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If Congresswoman Renee Ellmers’s campaign reporting is accurate, she raised NO MONEY in the last two quarter of 2011, and had no money on hand in her campaign committee treasury

Pilot owner a sponsor for Walter Dalton fundraiser

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

First we learned that Frank Daniels, Jr., majority owner of our local Nobel Prize-winning thrice-weekly paper here in Moore County, cut a nice check

Vice-President HALEY ????

Posted on April 7, 2012April 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Palmetto State governor is out hawking a new book all over the country. She’s been campaigning for Romney all over the country. She’s been hitting Fox News and The

SEANC: Democrat Party mouthpiece

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I’ve been getting some — ahem — “love letters” from people defending the State Employees Association of North Carolina from my insinuations that the group is little more than a

Arguing with idiots: Gas Prices Edition

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

(Apologies to Glenn Beck for lifting the title of his GREAT book.) The next time some Obama-voting granola rants about how the high prices at the pump are GEORGE W.

History, Economic data point to SURE Obama loss in November

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

James Pethokoukis with The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in DC is one of the sharpest people out there writing on business and the economy. He has some interesting charts up