Tag: NCGA

Part-time job, very big bucks

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Ever wonder what all of those people in the legislative building pull down each year? WELL, the N&O has finally done something useful and created a database of legislative

Even MORE meddling in primaries by NC House GOP leadership?

Posted on May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Richmond County Republican Ben Moss, against the odds, beat fellow incumbent Jamie Boles of Moore County in the primaries earlier this month. The race started off with kind words

#ncga : A primary for the pro tem

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I hear an awful lot of griping out there about the caliber of people we have “representing” us in Raleigh and DC. We’ve got primaries coming up in May.

Dale Folwell leading the way in NC: screwing Russia while protecting North Carolina money

Posted on March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 by Brant Clifton

State treasurer Dale Folwell has had enough. He’s seen what we all have on the ol’ boob tube in re: Russia and Ukraine. And he’s ready to do something

Party time at — WHERE ???

Posted on January 30, 2022January 30, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Politics is often a game of appearances. What you look like or what it looks like you’re doing can be just as damaging than if you really were doing

Joint Legislative Committee on — SAY WHAT ???????

Posted on January 9, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Speaker Timmy this week announced his appointees to “The Joint Committee on Access to Health Care and Expanding Medicaid.” You know, it’s amazing how much of their agenda Democrats

Folwell, Wood back state-like ethics rules for local officials

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Brant Clifton

The state legislature has got a bill in its possession that would bring local government officials under very similar ethical standards to those state officials have to live by.

Still beating on — and lying about — Mark Robinson

Posted on November 30, 2021December 1, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Anybody out there seriously believe that the drive-by media would be all worked up about all this GAY STUFF if Robinson had a (D) next to his name? Apparently, it’s

Monkey Business Report: Using COVID to justify poor public school performance

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Things have been so busy elsewhere that we haven’t given our, um, “friends” on Jones Street the proper amount of attention. For instance, we should take a look at

NCGOP groupie parachutes in to pursue retiring Larry Pittman’s House seat

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Just three years ago, Catherine Whiteford was running as a Republican in a very Democrat NC House district in Raleigh against a seasoned incumbent. (She got her clock cleaned.