Tag: Congress

NC-09: Mr. McCready and the company he keeps

Posted on March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 by Brant Clifton

You can often tell a lot about a person by looking at the people closest to them. For instance, we know that Dan McCready was very cozy during the

Wow. Look at what’s brewing on Twitter.

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I swear. I don’t know WHO to pull for on this one. And the response?

NC-09: Ginger McCready, useful leftist tool

Posted on March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The Dan McCready campaign wants to paint the picture of a decorated war hero, committed capitalist, and devout church-going family man who simply wants to go to DC to

NC-03: Odds & Ends

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Fundraising. The campaign of Jeff Moore (R) is touting their guy’s fundraising haul of $75,000 in the first week since he filed. The DC-based Politico website is reporting that

NC-03: The doctor fights back

Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Politics IS a full-contact sport. (As if you didn’t already know this.) Far too often, I see really good people play way too nice and get their reputations destroyed.

NC-09: The battle to topple Ginger McCready

Posted on March 10, 2019March 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The US Marines have got to LOVE Ginger McCready, the Democrats’ great white hope in the crusade to steal the Ninth Congressional District after 60 years of uninterrupted Republican

NC-03: If I had a dime for every person who filed for Congress …

Posted on March 8, 2019March 8, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I’d be $2.60 richer! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the deadline for filing for the Third Congressional District seat in the US House has come and gone. And boy have

NC-03: A consultant-palooza! (Up to 18 candidates, with one day to go.)

Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by Brant Clifton

This special election to replace the late, great Walter Jones is turning into quite a full-employment act for political consultants. We’ve got quite a crowd in the race

NC-03: Gettin’ kinda crowded in here

Posted on March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got two more days left to file for this race. Apparently, there are a helluva lot of people with dreams of working in Washington, DC. As of

NC-03: Is that sulphur I smell?

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I knew that the wide-open opportunity in this congressional race would be too much for NCGOPe uber-consultants Dee Stewart and Paul Shumaker to pass up. All sorts of indicators