Tag: campaign 2012

State senate candidate cuffed, detained by Moore deputies

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Tommy Davis has been a long-standing fixture on our local paper’s web site message boards. Today, he moves to the front pages of the paper. (I’m not so sure that

Vinroot, Gantt team up for May

Posted on April 10, 2012April 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The 2000 GOP nominee for North Carolina governor and the 1990 & ’96 Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate are teaming up for an assault on May’s

Moore County: STILL not in 2nd Congressional District ???

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The primary for U.S. House is one month away. The local and state boards of elections tell us that Moore County is NOW in the Second Congressional District. But U.S.

Tea Party, Ellmers headed for a divorce?

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I attended a Tea Party gathering of about 500 people tonight in Moore County. It was a meet the candidates dinner that included leaders and activists from Moore, Lee and

ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE of why we need voter ID @ the polls

Posted on April 9, 2012April 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has DONE IT again. The guy who pulled off the hooker-pimp scheme that brought down ACORN has now provided us with great

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