Tag: NCGA

#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

#ncga: Great BIG ONES. (Yessirree.)

Posted on October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

THAT is exactly what it takes to to go toe-to-toe or nose-to-nose with an appropriations chairman when you are an agency head. THAT is apparently what has happened this week

#ncga: Dropping like flies (picking up primary opponents?)

Posted on October 14, 2015October 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Brian Brown. Jacqueline Schaeffer. Rayne Brown. Leo Daughtry. Paul Tine. Skip Stam. That’s an awful lot of folks bailing out of Jones Street’s lower chamber majority. Could some folks be

#ncpol: Paul Shumaker’s “dog” enters the AG “fight”

Posted on October 13, 2015October 13, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We told you it was coming. Granted, there were a few false starts, stutters and missteps. But the guy who tried to stick us with subsidies for hemp and solar

#ncga: But, but but — It’s them bloggers’s fault !!!

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That was apparently the spin — as reported to us by a faithful reader — put forth recently by state Rep. Frank Iler (R-Brunswick) in response to questions about those

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