#NCGA: Skip Stam hits the road in support of tolls
State legislator Skip Stam (R), the speaker pro tem and a close ally of speaker / US senator wannabe Thom Tillis, is hitting the rubber chicken circuit to sermonize on
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Memo to Establishment: Sometimes, taxes mean more than freebies
House speaker Thom Tillis and his team, Gov. Pat McCrory, and scores of big names in the state’s business establishment have been harping on the alleged importance of customized, special
Continue reading#NCGA: Timing will be key for Gov. Pat’s threatened special session
Gov. Pat McCrory is making some noise about possibly calling the General Assembly back into town for a special session. At the top of the agenda would be a $20
Continue readingBarber flatulates. Drive-by media is there on the scene to take a whiff.
Most preachers are pretty busy with church stuff on Sundays. Not the most-holy-of-holies, reverend Bill Barber, though. The Round Rev was busy preening in front of the slobbering sycophants and
Continue reading#NCGA: Despite ”conservative revolution” state spending exploding
If you listen to the drive-by media or the zombies and trolls following Bill Barber around, you’d think North Carolina state government was now a shoe-string operation. Thanks to media
Continue readingWe get an answer (KINDA) on our pal Fletcher
We’re approaching September 2014. Way back in January 2013, the North Carolina state board of elections announced an investigation into the campaign finances of state senator Fletcher Hartsell (RINO-Cabarrus). THIS
Continue reading#NCGA: Did drone co. CEO really ”co-author” new drone regulations?
We posted earlier about how new regulations on the use of unmanned drone aircraft in North Carolina *magically* appeared amid an appropriations bill that passed the state Senate. A specific
Continue reading#NCGA: All roads lead back to Thom (and his campaign fund)
During debate this week on economic development incentives, legislators were reminded that $7 million in state incentives had been allocated for the filming of CBS’s “Under The Dome” series in
Continue reading#FAIL: HB 1224 dies. Thom The Therrible learns karma is a female dog.
The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests. It got shot down once
Continue readingMonkey Business Update: party disloyalty, HB 1224, and film incentives back from the dead
Well, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously. Apparently, some ”pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site” spilled the beans before the plan could
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