Tag: campaign 2022

NCGOP okey-dokey with felons in leadership

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Brant Clifton

You might remember this story. Folks in Granville County got upset over reports they were hearing, and decided to put forth a resolution barring convicted felons — especially sex

Thoughts on Tuesday (and the future)

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Brant Clifton

For the most part, we at Haymaker HQ had a pretty good election night. A good chunk of the folks we were pulling for WON. Pat McCrory. The former governor

Wake up. Get up. GO VOTE.

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I hear people whining about how their vote doesn’t make a difference. All I can say in response is: “The hell it doesn’t.” If you are conservative, you are

Moore County campaign ’22: Two bad audits from state auditor’s office beget even more from state courts office

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Brant Clifton

We told you earlier about the hot mess expanding from Pinehurst to Carthage: […] Well, we’ve found two audits from state auditor Beth Wood — from 2011 and from

A hostile takeover of our state’s judiciary

Posted on April 25, 2022 by Brant Clifton

News of takeovers is all over the place. There’s ol’ Vlad in The Ukraine and Elon Musk and Twitter, among others. It’s beginning to look like the special

Tillis, Timmy & Phil all backing Cawthorn primary opponent

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Brant Clifton

All of you trying to convince us of Chuck Edwards’s conservative bona fides — get a load of this: Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is throwing his weight behind

Just HOW LOW will the NCGOP establishment go?

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Brant Clifton

They beat up on a black man. Now they’re smacking around a young guy in a wheel chair. What’s next? What do Mark Robinson and Madison Cawthorn have in

#ncga : A primary for the pro tem

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I hear an awful lot of griping out there about the caliber of people we have “representing” us in Raleigh and DC. We’ve got primaries coming up in May.

#NCSEN: McCrory is falling. (Can he get up?)

Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by Brant Clifton

That smug uptown Charlotte crowd and our soon-to-be senior senator better hold off on popping the champagne corks. Their super-powered champion Pat McCrory has apparently been exposed to kryptonite.

Et tu, Paul?

Posted on December 6, 2021December 6, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Is stalwart conservative judge April Wood being stabbed in the back by “ally” Chief Justice Paul Newby? That’s what we’re hearing from inside the beltline. Wood, who currently serves