Tag: NCGA

#ncga: Senator Berger PREACHES IT.

Posted on November 6, 2015November 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The state Senate’s big kahuna went in front of the biggest, most-prominent Common Core-loving, spend-more-and-more-and-more money crowd and told them a few things I am SURE they didn’t want to

Arrivederci, Rucho!

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

State senator Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenburg), his body’s Finance Committee chairman, threw everyone a curve ball by announcing his decision to not seek reelection. He’s been quite a force on Jones

#ncga: Need campaign help? Look no further than the Maryland DMV.

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

He loves his solar panels (and the accompanying government subsidies). He’s got a Democrat lobbyist / campaign consultant working out of the offices of his trucking company. He’ll go for

#ncga: A candidate to keep an eye on in SE NC

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Brant Clifton

State Rep. Rick Catlin (R-Wilmington) is calling it quits. Catlin had a rather moderate reputation in the House. (He scored a gentleman’s C+ in the 2014 Civitas conservative rankings. A

#ncpol: When the campaign check trumps principles, the platform, and sometimes THE LAW

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Well, The N&O has broken open a rather troubling story involving the governor, some of his big donors, and favors they may have received from the state bureaucracy (allegedly thanks

#ncga: Heads up! Robert Brawley is back.

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

He was an outspoken critic of House leadership. Then-speaker Thom Tillis found him a primary opponent and helped knock him out of the House. Theam Thillis may have knocked Robert

#ncga: Lil’ Tricia is DOWN WITH THE STRUGGLE

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Brant Clifton

You never would have imagined a pampered, latte-sipping, Prius-driving, pale-faced suburban princess like Tricia Cotham being in solidarity with Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Chuck D, Flava Flav, and that

#ncga: The money fairies of Jones Street

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians using the public treasury to pay off or payback cronies back home is nothing new. But it is something different when the crowd that spent decades griping about such

#ncga: Moore County’s Boles stands up for Nelson Dollar’s wife (and her state job)

Posted on October 18, 2015October 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Raleigh was atwitter last week over the dismissal of state Rep. — and House Committee chairman — Nelson Dollar’s wife from her high,um, “dollar” job at the Department of Public

#ncga: ”Um, this is YOUR monster, Drs. Berger & Moore.”

Posted on October 16, 2015October 16, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Politicians never cease to amaze me. A few sessions back, I was treated to a barrage of b*tching from various Republican legislators about Skip Stam and Thom Tillis. From all