Tag: NCGA

#ncga: David, Nelson, Lies, damned lies and …

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Brant Clifton

“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” — Mark Twain ————————————————– It’s sad, but you come to expect lying from elected officials. But sometimes the lying gets to be a

Lefty “education” groups infiltrating GOP primaries

Posted on March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 by Brant Clifton

We’ve already talked about DPI superintendent Mark Johnson’s ties to Michael Bloomberg and the pro-Common Core group Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE). Now, we have a similar issue popping up

Solar mandates = um, free market ??????

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Brant Clifton

Lobbyists and other assorted solar goons are passing around a News & Record op-ed on how important solar mandates are to — get this — *preserving the free market*: This election

#ncga: Listen to Dean Wormer, son.

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Brant Clifton

”Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” — Dean Wormer, Faber College ————————— Jason Saine is living the American dream. Plucked out of the waiting

#NCGA : retail merchants association ponying up for incumbents in primary season

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Brant Clifton

If you’ve been hearing or seeing ads “paid for by Main Street Merchants for a better North Carolina”, THAT is actually the North Carolina Retail Merchants Association. According to records

#ncga: Solar subsidies foe shooting for Senate seat

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Brant Clifton

There are not many tears being shed over the eminent departure of Fletcher Hartsell (RINO-Cabarrus) from Senate District 36. He’s had a long career filled with scandal and collaboration with

#ncga: David Lewis took OUR money!

Posted on March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 by Brant Clifton

At least THAT is what John Zumwalt, Republican challenger to incumbent Jamie Boles in NC House District 52, is claiming: Hmmm. Lewis is quite a powerful person in Raleigh

#ncga: Just in time for the primaries. A new conservative player. (Likely to ruffle a few feathers. )

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Brant Clifton

For decades, The North Carolina Congressional Club / National Congressional Club turned into the de facto Republican Party in this state. It openly backed Republicans against other Republicans on the

#ncga: Chamber of (Crony) Commerce

Posted on March 1, 2016March 1, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The North Carolina Chamber appears to be following the national Chamber’s lead in going all-out in support of statism and the establishment. They told us in ads, last year, that

#ncga: Boles v. Zumwalt in HD 52