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Mess with the bull? Get the horns. (Mess with the butterball? Get the closet.)

Posted on September 23, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It seems like only yesterday that we heard Republican legislators moaning about the Morgan-Black regime in the NC House banishing critics into repurposed out-of-the-way broom closets. Now that the partisan

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Dare County officials ambushed by state budget “deal”

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Boy, this hot mess of a backroom “deal” on the state budget is continuing to deliver in the surprise department: Following in the footsteps of Nags Head and Manteo, leaders

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Pollster: Casino sleaze makes Berger very vulnerable to primary challenge

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Brant Clifton

*There’s just something about paying more attention to your donors than your voters that rubs people the wrong way. * The state budget is close to three months overdue.  Senator

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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The Moore-Berger budget “deal” STILL sucks.

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Yessirreebob. The word is out that the cartels controlling each chamber of the General Assembly have come up with a “deal.”  *Never mind that it’s been carved out behind closed

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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NC’s man at The RNC says ‘HELL NO’ to Moore-Berger casino sleaze

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The Broyhill family is at the heart of the RINO community within the NCGOP. They’ve long been the kind of warm, fuzzy Republicans that liberals regularly pat on the head

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Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
2 comments

Berger Gang tried to sneak casinos past public early on

Posted on September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s sad that we’ve become so cynical — so used to our elected officials lying to us.  But the chicanery and sleaze around the latest casino shenanigans in Raleigh really

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campaign 2024, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Phil Berger, Politics
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The Emp– um, lieutenant governor has NO clothes

Posted on September 17, 2023September 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The word is getting out that, if you expose yourself to Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson long enough, you WILL be subjected to some behavior ranging from the obnoxious to the

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campaign 2024, Mark Robinson, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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Murry drops AG bid, clears GOP field for Bishop

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Many of you may haven had the chance to meet Tom Murry in recent months. He’s been criss-crossing the state seeking support for his bid for the open attorney general

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Dan Bishop, Media, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

Timmy grovels to Democrats on casino deal

Posted on September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s funny. Not ha-ha funny.  Just, um, FUNNY. We were told that a veto-proof majority would allow for all kinds of Republican policy matters to roll through the legislature without

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campaign 2024, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics
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Walker tries to drag Robinson into final battle against casinos

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The lieutenant governor’s campaign has him hidden away from the voters and the media.  But at least one of Mark Robinson’s challengers for governor – former congressman Mark Walker –

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Mark Robinson, Mark Walker, Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics
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