Tag: NCGA

Burning down the (NC) House

Posted on June 24, 2023June 24, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s an interesting time to be a House Republican in Raleigh. From what I’m hearing on the inside, no one in the House GOP caucus has the guts to stand

$50K in pay raises over FIVE YEARS for Timmy’s gal pal

Posted on June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Working in state government appears to have been very very very good for Jamie Liles Lassiter, the Wake County woman at the center of North Carolina’s hottest political scandal. Our

With Timmy and ‘Big Mark’ under fire, Boss Phil flexing his muscle on Jones Street

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Some legislators are complaining that life on Jones Street is making them feel like debtors late on payments to a loan shark. I’m hearing reports that senate president Phil Berger

REWARD OFFERED for info leading to POSITIVE ID of Speaker Timmy’s co-defendant

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Sometimes, it take cold hard cash to motivate people to cough up info and do the right thing. Many a lawman will tell you that. Everyone knows about the bombshell

Have you seen THIS MAN?

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

According to media reports, Speaker Tim Moore says he doesn’t know who the above person is. Attorneys for Scott Lassiter have labeled him “John Doe” and named him a co-defendant

Complaint: Speaker Timmy a wife-stealer

Posted on June 18, 2023June 18, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It looks and sounds like the tubby little guy at the front of the House chamber is not in for a very good week. Break-ins and surveillance cameras? Holy Watergate!

Clapping like trained seals while the country crumbles

Posted on June 17, 2023June 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I recently had the, um, “pleasure” of watching some US House committee hold a field hearing in Pinehurst about last December’s blackout. Two things really stuck out to me: DC

NCGOPers giggly over Dems’ post-Cotham party-switch bill need to remember Decker, Morgan and BLACK

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I’ve seen all kinds of shade-throwing, preening, and trash-talking from NCGOPe types over the party-switch bill(s) introduced by legislative Democrats in the wake of the Tricia Cotham defection. Yes, our

#ncga: ‘NO, we will NOT be leaving ECU alone.’

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Brant Clifton

So said the NC House majority leader at a House GOP confab earlier today on Jones Street. Rep. John Bell’s comment came in response to a long, drawn-out diatribe from

Folwell backs ban on using ESG as employment, investment criteria

Posted on June 6, 2023June 6, 2023 by Brant Clifton

State treasurer Dale Folwell is backing legislation over on Jones Street that bans the use of far-left ESG (environmental, social and governance) ideology by state agencies and state pension plan