Tag: budget

#ncga: The money fairies of Jones Street

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians using the public treasury to pay off or payback cronies back home is nothing new. But it is something different when the crowd that spent decades griping about such

#ncpol: McHenry, Tillis vote to FUND Planned Parenthood, amnesty

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have been fretting about a “government shutdown.” Even though there has been no evidence whatsoever of past government shutdowns hurting the GOP at the ballot

#ncga: Limited government and the GOP formally separate

Posted on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve heard some tough talk. Everyone is beating their chest getting ready for the upcoming elections. But the chest-beaters are apparently ready to send to the governor a budget that

#ncga: Showdown at the Jones Street corral

Posted on September 14, 2015September 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

According to Miss Mollie, speaker Moore’s easy-on-the-eyes spokesmodel, the rubber just might meet the road today: From: Mollie Young (Dir. of Communications, Speaker Moore’s Office) Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 4:38 PMTo: @House/Republican/Members; @House/Republican/LAsCc: @Speaker

#ncga: Stop the presses! An update from Miss Mollie on THE DEAL

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Speaker Moore’s spokesmodel chimed in today with an update for all of us in the House Republican caucus: From: Mollie Young (Dir. of Communications, Speaker Moore’s Office) Sent: Saturday, September

#ncga: DEAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on September 11, 2015September 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Yes, the word has come down from on high: From: Mollie Young (Dir. of Communications, Speaker Moore’s Office) Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 7:05 PM To: @House/Republican/Members; @House/Republican/LAs Cc: @Speaker

#ncga: Six things that have slowed the budget process

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That is, in essence, what the story in today’s N&O was about. (Off the top of our heads, we can think of at least ONE BIG obvious one.) Here is

#ncga: Dollar-Lewis-Moore counting on Dems, planning culling of conservative herd

Posted on September 10, 2015September 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There WILL be war. That’s what my sources from all four corners of Jones Street are telling me amidst the poker-game-with-other-people’s-money called “budget conference negotiations.” Said one well-placed House GOP

#ncga: Nelson STILL ain’t happy. (But movie incentives are BACK!)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The N&O tells us there are still ‘quite significant’ disagreements in the state budget talks between the GOP-led House and GOP-led Senate. (According to Fox and Friends, our governor is

#ncga: The mushroom treatment

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s some serious grumbling coming from the House Republican caucus on Jones Street. Their chamber is currently involved in negotiations to reconcile the budgetary differences it has with the General