Tag: NCGA

A Civil War, or an EVICTION?

Posted on October 9, 2015October 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Conservatives of the Tea Party ilk are being portrayed as unreasonable, petty children who turn over the gameboard and throw a fit when they don’t get their way. The establishmentarians

#ncga: The trials and tribulations of Tricia (on Twitter)

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Things are kind of slow over on Jones Street now. So, we’re expecting a lot of great things out of Tricia Cotham — a little left-wing lady with BIG dreams.

#ncga: GOPers celebrated by solar subsidy lobby

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

The folks who have feasted in our wallets for years to fund their solar energy follies spend time this past week celebrating the NCGA Republicans who have been so good

#ncga: GOPer Brown leaving Jones St. to work for Thillis

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The GOP caucus in the North Carolina House will have one less familiar face when the next session starts up. State Rep. Brian Brown (R-Pitt) released this info to his

#ncgop: Impeachment for ‘gross inefficiency’

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

Seriously? We can do that? (Wow. Talk about a great method for down-sizing government.) There were fireworks this weekend when Third Congressional District Republican leaders got together. They had state

#ncgop: County party chairmen lash out at Berger, Moore re: H373, S119

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

The furor over that affiliated committees mess is not dying down. I had been hearing that Speaker Tim Moore and President Pro Tem Phil Berger have been getting an earful

#ncga: We don’t need exceptions. We need a REPEAL.

Posted on October 1, 2015October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’ve recently heard news about the General Assembly issuing “exceptions” to the state Certificate of Need rules to Belhaven hospital and another one out in western North Carolina. For

#ncpol: RIP, NCGOP

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s a new day in North Carolina politics. We’ve been saying for a while that the political parties no longer matter much. They are a great vehicle for getting the

#nc-03: Some advice for Taylor Griffin

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It looks like the GOP primary for US House is not going to look anything like the last go-around. The Walter Jones campaign got caught flat-footed in 2014 and nearly

#ncga: Legislators to voters: ‘Screw You.’ (Power Grab NOW EVEN WORSE)

Posted on September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I swear. You almost have to harken back to the Soviet Union or look to Cuba to find a government that has such utter, comparable, contempt for its people. NCGOP