#ncga: Pouring water on a grease fire
The anti-HB2 hysteria was flaming out. The concert boycott announcements were dwindling down to nothing. All the NCGOPe had to do was keep sticking to its guns and stay focused
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#ncga: Meanwhile, Inside the caucus room …
The word I am hearing — from folks inside the joint House-Senate GOP confab with the governor — is about dramatic contrasts. Gov. McCrory and the House leadership were passionately
Continue reading#ncga: Tweaking the HB2 tweak
Once again, I’ve got MAIL: From: Rep. Chuck McGrady Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 12:50 PM To: @House/Republican/Members Subject: New Bill Consistent with the discussion that has occurred in the
Continue reading#ncga: *Sniff, sniff.* I smell PORK.
The drivebys are trumpeting a great agreement on the budget between the two chambers on Jones Street. This agreement is loaded with the same kind of pork-flavored crap we’ve grown to
Continue readingMcCrory + House, Senate GOP to huddle Wednesday on HB2
(No word yet if John Hood will be providing the entertainment.) The confab gets together at 11 AM tomorrow. The sellout bombshell that detonated today will still be causing aftershocks
Continue readingBend Over, Here It Comes: The great HB2 sellout BEGINNETH.
We’ve told you this was happening. We’ve told you that Art Pope, John Hood, and Dennis Wicker were slithering around behind the scenes orchestrating it. Now, according to driveby superstar
Continue reading#ncga: Bearded RINO indicted!
State senator Fletcher Hartsell is having a case of The Mondays on Tuesday: Fletcher Harsell, a state senator from Concord, was indicted on Tuesday by a Wake County grand jury
Continue reading#ncga: The best government money can buy
It looks like SB554 — a provision to allow local school systems to lease facilities from private developers — is on its way to reality. Normally, we’re big fans of
Continue reading#ncga: BIG MONEY being shelled out over SB554
A group called Robeson for Advancement has been identified in driveby media reports as a leading force in the lobbying effort to get SB554 — authorizing a build/lease program
Continue readingShades of Laura Leslie: The N&O and the art of the two-minute smear
We learned a lot about political coverage at Jim Goodmon’s WRAL by watching Laura Leslie’s Facebook account. Leslie is an unabashed, unashamed fire-breathing hard-left feminazi. But she is presented
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