Tag: NCGA

Harnett GOP throws curveball in replacing David Lewis

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

He was chairman of the county board of commissioners. He lost his March primary. Why not send Howard Penny to Raleigh? That’s what Harnett Republican leaders

Curiouser and curiouser: The fight to replace David Lewis

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Conservatives in Harnett County got some apparent good news when they heard local party chairman Maggie Sandrock was going to toss her hat in the ring to replace

He’s outta here!

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Brant Clifton

State Rep. David Lewis, arguably the second most powerful member of his chamber, has announced his “retirement” from the North Carolina House: On Friday, Representative David R.

Developers seeking to build solar schools in NC target of SC lawsuit

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 by Brant Clifton

A group of folks from North Carolina, who have been lobbying the General Assembly for a few years now to lease privately-owned school buildings (which may, um, *coincidentally*

#ncga: Senate Dems’ #MeToo moment?

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 by Brant Clifton

We’ve told you wild stories about the goings-on in the GOP caucus room. Now it appears things get just as rowdy on the other side of the

#ncga: House GOP aiding-and-abetting Dem vote-by-mail scheme

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 by Brant Clifton

This will be one more example state Republicans can reflect on when they find themselves in the General Assembly’s minority after November. Democrats and all kinds of

Even DC can see Jones Street’s leftward drift

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Brant Clifton

We’ve had Republican majorities in the General Assembly since 2010. However, we should keep reminding ourselves that the terms “Republican” and “conservative” are becoming more and

#ncga: They’re BAAAAAAAACK!

Posted on May 3, 2020May 14, 2020 by Brant Clifton

While we’re sheltering-in-place, the honorables have once again darkened the halls of that big building one Jones Street in Raleigh. The Congress passed a huge-honking spending bill.

Making election-stealing EASIER

Posted on April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 by Brant Clifton

The public schools crowd is doing their thing to take advantage of the current crisis, and so — it appears — are the Raleigh politicians and elections

#ncga: WHAT in tarnation did Kelly Hastings do to his desk?

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Brant Clifton

While so many of us Jones Street watchers are preoccupied with the big health story, I believe there is one hell of a story (with an even better BACK-STORY)