Tag: Charlotte

NC Grassroots GOPers seeking change at the top of the RNC

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Charlotte is getting a lot of attention lately. It hosted Barack Obama and the Democrat National Convention in 2012. Its former mayor was just sworn in as governor.

Hey, Charlotte: How about some more tax with that burger and fries?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The Carolina Panthers are a very, very very bad football team. Their owner, Jerry Richardson, is a very, very, very wealthy and very, very, very connected man. Charlotte is a

Look Who’s Running ‘Thangs’ Now (Charlotte area makes its move in the Capital City)

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’s financial center (Charlotte) and its center of government (Raleigh) appear to be melding together or merging. We’ve seen it in McClatchy buying both the Charlotte Observer

Things that make you go HMMMM: The Council of State and THAT ‘indebtedness’ vote

Posted on December 7, 2012December 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Most of the news about the Council of State meeting this week focused on the Dorothea Dix hullaballoo. But if you read a

Gov. Pat: Bev’s a disaster, but I’m keeping a lot of her people.

Posted on November 20, 2012November 20, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Pat McCrory, fresh off his rout of Walter Dalton in the governor’s race, is putting out the word that we shouldn’t expect “major personnel changes right away.” Wait a minute.

NC’s “conservative revolution” rolls on: Tillis mulling taxpayer funds for Panther stadium renovation

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Oh, the things you learn two days after the election. It appears that North Carolina state House speaker — and Richard Morgan protégé — Thom Tillis is ready

The DNC in NC: cheering abortion, booing God, and LITERALLY soaking the rich

Posted on September 7, 2012September 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, the freak show in Charlotte is winding down. We’ve been treated to a celebration of abortion, the booing of God, and serious – I think – attempts to make

Citizenship? We don’t need no steenkin’ citizenship!

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The more I think about it, Charlotte is the IDEAL spot for Barry Obama and his traveling circus to have their convention. The Charlotte area is slipping

Vinroot & Foxx: Co-Mayors ?????

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A letter circulating among political and business movers-and-shakers in the Charlotte area is raising more than a few eyebrows. Richard Vinroot, former Charlotte mayor and 2000 GOP gubernatorial nominee,

Shubert: Pittenger misrepresents her role in controversial land deal

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

A real estate deal in western North Carolina has residents up in arms and has become a major issue in the GOP runoff for the state’s Ninth