Tag: NCGA

#ncga: A session? (Isn’t that special?)

Posted on October 19, 2016October 19, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Even Hurricane Matthew can get worked into the political jockeying for November. Here’s Cumberland County state Rep. Billy Richardson (D): Popeye said it best “I stands all I can stands,

#ncga: Sources say NC House GOP polling shows disaster in Wake, Meck races

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It may be in bad taste to reference hurricanes right now — given that much of the state is still recovering from Matthew’s flooding. But pollsters hired by the NC

#ncpol, #ncga: Deja vu, all over again?

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Brant Clifton

2014 was a great year for Republicans all around. They took out Kay Hagan and took back the US Senate from the Democrats. But, in North Carolina, they suffered a

#ncpol: Educating ‘Lieutenant Linda’

Posted on October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Wouldn’t it be nice if the drive bys fact-checked and interrogated Democrat candidates like they do Republicans? (We can all dream, can’t we?) The Asheville Citizen-Times’s Mark Barrett was standing

#ncga: Feds INDICT Fletcher Hartsell

Posted on September 27, 2016September 27, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The other shoe has dropped. A Cabarrus County senator has a federal indictment to go along with his state indictment on campaign finance violations. If you recall, Hartsell had reported

#ncga: House GOP leaders shifting ALL campaign $$$ to Wake, Meck races

Posted on September 13, 2016September 13, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Hear that, rural and suburban GOP state House candidates? You are ON YOUR OWN. Poor financial decisions by House caucus leaders are coming back to bite the caucus in the

#ncga: Down BIG in the polls, Barringer throws HB2, her party under the bus

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The N&O’s “Genitalia” Campbell led the reporting team breathlessly reporting on “the first Republican” to call for the repeal of House Bill 2. What their story downplays, omits, leaves out

#ncga: Hey, what happened to that ethics complaint against David Lewis?

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Yeah. It was filed way back in December, wasn’t it? It was unusual, to say the least, to see a legislator file a complaint against another legislator from the

#ncga: The Haymaker’s “mole” outed? (I think NOT.)

Posted on August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 by Brant Clifton

For an allegedly “irrelevant” website, we sure do seem to be living rent-free in certain powerful heads on Jones Street. While most of the news about Tuesday’s GOP House

#ncga: Bell! Arp! (Projected Loss of EIGHT House GOP seats?)

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It looks like you are now required to have a last name reminiscent of a sound effect from the old “Batman” TV show in order to be elevated to House leadership. (Szoka!