Tag: campaign 2012

WAY too many ‘free passes’ for 2012 @ NCGA

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

As election filing ended yesterday, we learned that 39 of the 17o North Carolina General Assembly seats will have ONE and ONLY ONE choice for voters in May and November.

THAT dripping noise over on Jones Street

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s remarkable how The N&O and its comrades on The Left have such a high regard for legislative ethics — when the Republicans are in the majority. The drip-drip-drip

Hide your kids. Hide your cameras. HE’S IN! (BOOYAH!)

Posted on February 29, 2012February 29, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Former congressman Bobby “Boom Boom” Etheridge made it official today — signing on the dotted line in Raleigh to become the 13th candidate for governor of our fair state.

Oh, hell. Richard’s back. (AGAIN)

Posted on February 29, 2012March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

SpeakerrrrrRichardMorgan™ is starting to remind me of Jason Voorhees, the deranged killer in all of those really bad Friday The 13th movies. The heroes in those movies are

NC’s I-95 tolls to hit MORE than just drivers

Posted on February 28, 2012February 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Legislators and bureaucrats in Raleigh are blowing through funds like a drunken sailor on an extended shore leave. Instead of tightening their belts and trying

TimmyWatch: Lea for NC Senate?

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Moore County political insiders tell me to not be surprised if retiring Moore County Commissioner Tim Lea files at the last minute for the NC Senate seat held by Republican

Study: No connection between fracking and groundwater pollution

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina is looking at a potentially enormous economic boom with fracking. North Dakota is already booming. The energy industry believes that The Tar Heel State

Campaign 2012: Confused? Lost?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our local paper reported the other day that Congresswoman Renee Ellmers was campaigning in Moore County. However, according to her official web site, neither Southern Pines nor Moore

Potomac Fever sweeping Moore County?

Posted on February 25, 2012February 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It is looking like we in Moore County could have TWO to THREE of our fellow residents on this year’s Second Congressional District ballot. Democrat Steve Wilkins

Internal Dem Polling: BOOM BOOM still ‘Top Donkey’ for NC Dems in 2012 race for Governor