Tag: NCGA

#ncga: Binky spies a bigot

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

WRAL’s Binky — that mouth-breathing buffoon who serves as first mate on the S.S. Short Bus — is giving Colin Campbell and Rob Christensen a run for their money in

#ncga: Speaker WHO ?????

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

There’s an old saying: If you’re going to beg for money, make sure you know the name of the butt you’re kissing. Martha Jenkins, legislative liaison for the Department of

#ncga: HB373, McCrory and The Power Grab

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The word I am hearing from the big city is that our governor is strongly leaning toward vetoing HB 373 and its ”affiliated committees” language. Given recent polling showing

#ncga: TRYING to explain those $15,000 Jeter-grams

Posted on September 26, 2015September 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, some heat is being felt about those $15,000 payouts from the House caucus campaign treasury. One wel-placed source within the House GOP camp offered up THIS defense of those

#ncga: Storming the barricades

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I am getting all kinds of reports from Jones Street indicating that the voters are not pleased with the elections power grab that just flew through the legislature. (I am

#ncga: Miss Mollie got punk’d! (Or DID she?)

Posted on September 24, 2015September 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

As a member of the GOP caucus in the North Carolina House, I get regular emails from the speaker’s office. This one today was a real hoot: From: Mollie Young

#ncga: NC Senate GOPers reportedly not excited about Woodhouse NCGOP candidacy

Posted on September 24, 2015September 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We posted earlier about Dallas Woodhouse angling for the top staff job at NCGOP HQ, and also about a bit of weaselly sneakiness on Jones Street to divert finances away

#ncgop #ncga: Can’t get your way? Change the rules behind closed doors.

Posted on September 23, 2015September 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In an earlier post, I lamented that you can’t take your eyes off this Jones Street crowd for thirty seconds. This latest development amplifies that assessment even further. State Rep.

#NCGA: Solar STILL lives ?????

Posted on September 23, 2015September 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

If ONLY some of these honorables would go to the mat for us as hard as they do for their cronies and bundlers. The word on the street — Jones

Moore County’s Picerno rips local NCGA delegation a new one

Posted on September 22, 2015September 23, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Nick Picerno is a lot like EF Hutton in Moore County. When the chairman of the county board of commissioners speaks, people sit up and listen. What he had to tell