Tag: NCGA

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

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It’s been a good TEN years since we last had a barn burner of a race for state House in North Carolina. Frankly, most people don’t want to be bothered with

#ncga: Speaker Moore’s cousin to primary McHenry

Posted on February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It seems — especially this year — that there is never a dull moment in North Carolina politics: Jason Falls is chairman of the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners.

#ncga: Solar goons TRYING to bail out Lil’ Lord Nelson

Posted on February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina has the only renewable energy portfolio mandate in the southeastern United States, and some of the most generous taxpayer-funded benefits for solar energy providers. When you consider how