The NCGOP’s big county problem
The N&O slipped up and actually did some decent reporting: While Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is expected to clash with the Republican-controlled General Assembly over the next several months, he
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#ncpol: Gettin’ PAID for mailing stuff
As the end of the year reporting deadline came and went, I thought it would be fun to check in on the NCGOP organization itself. For those of you playing
Continue readingSCOTUS puts brakes on Soros-Barber-Cooper tag team efforts to obtain new maps, elections for 2017
For a while, it’s been looking like — if you can’t get your way at the ballot box — you judge-shop until you find an old law school crony in
Continue readingThilli$$$: No more controver$$$y, plea$$$e. (I need to get PAID.)
Thom Tillis is out there preaching that national Republicans can learn a lesson from Pat McCrory about — get this — moving too far to the right: For all the GOP’s
Continue readingMORE Russia nonsense.
As the vote of the electoral college and inauguration day itself approach, the hysteria is reaching a deafening pitch. We’re told that Russia subverted our political process and gave us
Continue readingSOME on The Right actually buying into leftist crap about Trump and the election? (Apparently.)
It’s been quite disappointing to watch the wussification of National Review and The American Spectator — two publications that played a big part in fomenting my conservative passions as a
Continue readingAn Insider’s take on the downfall of Gov. Pat
There has been a lot of interesting feedback on my autopsy of the McCrory era. One piece of feedback, in particular, was especially intriguing. It comes from a Team McCrory
Continue reading#ncpol: Pat, we hardly got to know you.
So, our third Republican governor since Reconstruction is going down in history as the first North Carolina governor to be voted out of office. Some people have laughably tried to
Continue readingJeter’s final campaign report: $$ for gas, ding dongs and soda; little to nothing for successor, colleagues
It hit the papers that Charles Jeter would be quitting the NC House on July 25. Yet, instead of leaving something for his successor, sharing with his soon-to-be-former colleagues, or
Continue readingFishiness: Did Robin Hayes’s side deal screw over McCrory, commercial fishing AND The NCGOP Downeast?
Many of the folks I’m hearing from say ‘Yes.’ Governor Pat McCrory was one of the few blemishes on what was otherwise a great election for North Carolina Republicans. Some
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