Tag: NCGA

#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

#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