Tag: NC House

TWO majority leaders? (NC’s “conservative revolution” marches on)

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The “honorables” on Jones Street are giving us quite an eye-opening preview of where things might be headed: House Republican leaders are considering creating two

L’affaire LaRoque exposing chinks in Thom T’s armor?

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Talk about closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. It’s being reported now that state House speaker Thom Tillis is recommending that his federally-indicted House

McNeill surfaces in hunt for Brubaker replacement

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Randolph County GOP’s vice chairman’s name has popped up as a leading contender to replace former House Speaker Harold Brubaker — who resigned from the legislature

Brubaker: SO LONG, SUCKERS!

Posted on July 13, 2012July 13, 2012 by Brant Clifton

“Let the door knob hit you where the Good Lord split you!” — George Jefferson The mainstream media was full of glowing tributes to former House Speaker and

From the ‘It Needed to Be Said’ Department, Jones Street division …

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Well, the honorables on Jones Street hashed it out over global warming this week, and the arrogance and elitism of the granolas — still smarting from their banishment to

Speaker Tillis behind Walter Jones endorsement of ex-Democrat Arthur Williams?

Posted on June 22, 2012June 22, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congressman Walter Jones (R-3) has endorsed former Democrat legislator Arthur Williams in the July 17th GOP runoff for North Carolina State House District 6 in the

Beaufort County Commissioner sounds off on Thom Tillis, Arthur Williams

Posted on June 8, 2012June 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Republican activists in Eastern North Carolina are continuing to fume over allegations that GOP leaders in Raleigh are meddling in local primaries. Earlier this week, a GOP activist

Civitas: What Belt Tightening?

Posted on May 26, 2012May 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s election time. The honorables on the right side of the aisle on Jones Street are running around telling us how conservative and careful they’ve been with the people’s money.

The NCGA GOP spending machine keeps rolling on ….

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’re being told that those mean ol’ legislative Republicans on Jones Street are trying to bleed public education dry. Au Contraire, mes amis. Check out this

The Problem with Paul Stam

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Paul “Skip” Stam is the affable leader of the Republican majority in the NC House. He was a compromise candidate for caucus leader elected in the wake of the