Tag: NCGA

#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)

Lobbyist led cheerleading for Boles during primary

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Brant Clifton

If Jamie Boles tries to tell you he’s “one of us” and is fighting “for the folks back home,” — don’t buy it. Lobbyists and operatives from Raleigh

Twelve years in Raleigh, and THIS is what we get?

Posted on February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 by Brant Clifton

It’s pretty clear, if you venture out into the hinterlands of Moore County, that state Rep. Jamie Boles (R) is in a tough fight for renomination to

CHANCELLOR Timmy ???

Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Maybe the rats ARE abandoning the ship. First we hear David Lewis is taking up farming AND insurance. Now, we’re hearing talk that a certain

Republican legislator, DEMOCRAT DONOR ???

Posted on February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Here in Moore County, we have a Republican candidate who gave multiple times to Barack Obama. Agriculture commissioner Steve Troxler headed “Farmers for John Edwards” in 1998 when the

Democrat state House candidate’s family at center of embezzlement / exploitation scandal

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Pay attention. This one stretches halfway across our great state: A Concord pastor has been convicted in Pamlico County of embezzlement of more than $100,000 and four