Tag: David Lewis

#ncga: Showing up is half the battle.

Posted on April 27, 2015April 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’re seeing a lot of chest-thumping from a lot of folks talking about what a player he or she thinks she is on Jones Street. But we’re finding that a

#ncgop: NC’s RNC rep campaigning for chairman candidate Collins

Posted on April 25, 2015April 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Some months back, NCGOP establishment types issued a proclamation that current party chairman Claude Pope is out and that SOMEBODY named Craig Collins would be IN. Since then, the coronation

#ncga: Making deals — with the devil

Posted on April 5, 2015April 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Well, the GOP has officially surrendered their advantage in the area of taxes. After so many decades as the low – / anti-tax party, the GOP majority on Jones Street

#ncga: Who the #@*$ is in charge here ?????

Posted on March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

From what Jones Street insiders are telling me, Cumberland County Rep. Rick Glazier (D) is the closest thing to a leader in the General Assembly’s lower chamber. And HE is

#ncga: Snail’s pace. David Lewis. (Let the grumbling begin !!!)

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It sounds like the advent of the Tim Moore era in the state House is not all kumbaya and sweet-smelling roses. A number of my sources who have been around

#ncga: David Lewis, movin’ on up

Posted on December 18, 2014December 18, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Well we’re movin on up, To the east side. To a deluxe apartment in the sky. Movin on up, To the east side. We finally got a piece of the

#NCGA: Bill limiting elected official voting power has Harnett County riled up

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Legislation seeking to limit the powers of local elected officials in Duplin and Harnett counties has the Harnett County board of commissioners and board of education hopping mad and facing

NCGOP pushing ObamaCare defund resolution at August RNC meeting

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Brant Clifton

The furor over Richard Burr’s “dumbest idea” comment has apparently pushed the NCGOP hierarchy into damage control mode: Today North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Claude E. Pope,

New grassroots video seeks action on 2012 RNC heavy-handedness

Posted on March 29, 2013March 29, 2013 by Brant Clifton

It’s pretty clear that folks across the country — as well as in the Carolinas — are still smarting from the heavy-handed, top-down, DC-centric management of the 2012