Tag: Dan Forest

#ncpol: Thom Tillis trying to thwart Dan Forest’s gubernatorial bid?

Posted on April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 by Brant Clifton

That’s the skinny coming from behind several POWERFUL closed doors in DC and Raleigh. (As if we needed ANOTHER reason to HATE Thom Tilli$$$$.) Why, you ask, would

#hayesscandal: Lt. Dan corrects campaign report in re: Lindberg donation

Posted on April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Okay, before we get started here, I want to stress something. I KNOW that there are quite few people who read this blog and happen to either (a) struggle

#hayesscandal: How to earn yourself a primary challenger

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

With the 2016 downfall of Pat McCrory, Dan Forest was thrust into the spotlight as the NCGOP’s top statewide dog. It was like being called up from the farm

#hayesscandal: Lt. Dan speaks up

Posted on April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 by Brant Clifton

McClatchy got Lt. Gov. Dan Forest — the GOP frontrunner for governor in 2020 — to speak up on this week’s indictments and his relationship with donor Eric Lindberg:

Lt. Dan’s Lindberg connection?

Posted on April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Robin Hayes’s relationship with Eric Lindberg earned the state Republican Party chairman a federal indictment. Now, we come across THIS on Facebook: There were also media

Phase TWO of Team Forest’s hostile takeover of the Mecklenburg GOP?

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Mecklenburg County was the site of one of the worst electoral blowouts in the state for the GOP. (Hell, the county GOP probably qualifies for FEMA funding.) State senator

#ncpol: Is Forest campaign “buying off” potential McCrory 2020 comeback fans?

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Former Governor Pat McCrory is not keeping it a secret that he’s eyeing either a run for governor or the US Senate in the near future. That’s surely a

NCGOP’s Short Memory Caucus

Posted on February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Mark Martin, the Republican chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, recently announced he was bailing out of that particular sinking ship to take a lucrative opportunity at

Thom’s tholl road makes a cameo in campaign 2018

Posted on August 18, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Dan Forest says I-77 is all Roy Cooper’s fault. Jeff Tarte’s November opponent says it’s HIS fault. (Tarte says cancel the contract, worry about paying for it later.) Voters in

Have solar goons shanghaied Lt. Dan?

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Brant Clifton

I’m seeing some things on Twitter that are making me a wee bit uncomfortable. Here’s one: And HERE is another: Kairos Governmental Affairs and Betsy McCorkle are leading mouthpieces for