And let the spin BEGIN …
The six-figure salaried frat boys at NCGOP HQ are already taking to social media to try and make lemonade out of Tuesday’s lemons: Let’s see. When Dallas The Boy Wonder
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In Lee County, a 24-year old GOP star is born
Quite a few twenty-somethings in North Carolina politics make pilgrimages to Raleigh with visions of making it big QUICK. Patrick McHenry, for instance, got elected to the North Carolina House
Continue readingA post-mortem on Tuesday. (Look, Ma. We’re goin’ backwards.)
For Republicans and conservatives across North Carolina, there was not a whole lot to cheer about Tuesday night. Our side got out-hustled, out-strategized, out-raised, out-marketed. *Out-EVERYTHINGED.* To satisfy the folks
Continue readingAdvice for Tuesday …
We’ve been bombarded with questions from folks seeking recommendations about who to vote for on Tuesday. Here’s the sample ballot from my neck of the woods. It features local races
Continue readingDemocrats filling NC Senate GOP campaign coffers
He was one of the key money men behind a PAC that helped knock off a conservative legislator and facilitate a leftist takeover of Lee County a few years ago.
Continue readingKey figure in Easley scandals cuts big check to NC Senate GOPers
A name that popped up a lot amid reporting on scandals surrounding then-governor Mike Easley is now popping up on a state Republican campaign report. There was the issue of
Continue readingNC PolicyWatch tries to burn Folwell over Cowell’s sleight-of-hand
Chris Fitzsimon’s comedy team never passes up an opportunity to spit the word ‘BIGOT’ at a conservative. This time, the lucky recipient of Team Chris’s golden spittle is state treasurer
Continue reading#ncga: $peaker Timmy, very expen$ive. (And under review?)
Yes, it’s becoming more and more clear that the leader of the “conservative revolution” is making a KILLING off of the taxpayers. Here’s the latest: Seven months ago, we began
Continue reading#ncga: Smearing Mr. Bishop.
State senator Dan Bishop (R-Mecklenburg) is one of the nicest, most integrity-laden politicians we know of in contemporary North Carolina politics. That’s why the hit piece from the UK Daily
Continue reading#ncga: Steinburg basketball tourney ONE HOT MESS
Once again, we have mail. We’ve covered state Rep. Bob Steinburg’s venture into sports promotion — funded by Currituck County tax dollars — pretty extensively. This time we have a
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