Tag: campaign 2024

Biden + Cooper?

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Brant Clifton

The Raleigh GOP establishment has helped Roy Cooper portray himself as a certified genius. In the 2016 governor’s race, they gave him a total pass on wrecking the state crime

More hats in NC’s 2024 ring

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Governor. Former congressman Mark Walker finally confirmed the worst kept secret in North Carolina politics. He will officially be BIG NAME #3 in the GOP governor’s primary. Lt. Gov Mark

A (Robinson) Family Affair

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Brant Clifton

By now, it’s well-known that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) is seeking the GOP nomination for North Carolina governor in 2024. Robinson and his team are positioning him as THE

McCrory-Muhammad 2024: ‘Gov. Pat’ goes OFF into FAR left field

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Pat McCrory played a huge role in damaging conservatism and Republicanism in Mecklenburg County and North Carolina. Now he’s partnering up with a quite sketchy crew to do more of

From rioter to, um, COMMISSIONER?

Posted on April 29, 2023April 29, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Charlotte is such a *special* place. It’s the only place I know of that would vote a guy – who partook in some local rioting — to that very city’s

Buying votes with our cash?

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Brant Clifton

A bill has been introduced in the North Carolina House that creates new positions in the Department of Labor and institutes pay raises for employees of that agency. Sooo —

Jon Hardister, The Pander Bear.

Posted on April 18, 2023April 18, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Maybe the House majority whip has stumbled across something revolutionary: bending over backwards to pander to black voters in the, um, Republican primary. Jon Hardister (R-Guilford) has taken the lead

Speaker Timmy cheers ‘the new moderate Republican Party’

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Yep. That’s exactly what the tubby little guy did during the pep rally welcoming newly-minted Republican Tricia Cotham to the, um, “family.” Some more of Timmy’s comedy from the presser?

L’affaire Cotham: A few thoughts

Posted on April 5, 2023April 5, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I think it’s pretty clear that I’m not impressed with state Rep. Tricia Cotham. She rocketed to Raleigh over a decade ago thanks to her mother Pat’s powerful Democrat political

Welcome to the brave new world of cold hard authoritarianism. (You WILL enjoy it.)

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Criminalizing political differences used to be something reserved for places like the old Soviet bloc, Communist China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. It appears that the good ol’