Tag: NCGOP

#nc-03: Some advice for Taylor Griffin

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It looks like the GOP primary for US House is not going to look anything like the last go-around. The Walter Jones campaign got caught flat-footed in 2014 and nearly

#ncga: Legislators to voters: ‘Screw You.’ (Power Grab NOW EVEN WORSE)

Posted on September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I swear. You almost have to harken back to the Soviet Union or look to Cuba to find a government that has such utter, comparable, contempt for its people. NCGOP

#ncga: Binky spies a bigot

Posted on September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

WRAL’s Binky — that mouth-breathing buffoon who serves as first mate on the S.S. Short Bus — is giving Colin Campbell and Rob Christensen a run for their money in

#ncga: HB373, McCrory and The Power Grab

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The word I am hearing from the big city is that our governor is strongly leaning toward vetoing HB 373 and its ”affiliated committees” language. Given recent polling showing

#ncgop: Two ambulances, a coup attempt, and a Woodhouse

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

One normally associates state party meetings with boredom, Chinese water torture, root canals. *You know, pleasant things.* By all accounts, Saturday’s NCGOP meetings were anything BUT dull. Two officials had

#ncga: TRYING to explain those $15,000 Jeter-grams

Posted on September 26, 2015September 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, some heat is being felt about those $15,000 payouts from the House caucus campaign treasury. One wel-placed source within the House GOP camp offered up THIS defense of those

#ncga: CHA-CHING!!!! (GOP House Caucus VERY generous with $$$ — for Tim Moore’s pals)

Posted on September 25, 2015September 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s, um, a bit of hubbub going on about the election process power grab recently rammed through the General Assembly. Amidst all of this, we managed to get our hands

#ncga: Storming the barricades

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I am getting all kinds of reports from Jones Street indicating that the voters are not pleased with the elections power grab that just flew through the legislature. (I am

#ncga: Miss Mollie got punk’d! (Or DID she?)

Posted on September 24, 2015September 24, 2015 by Brant Clifton

As a member of the GOP caucus in the North Carolina House, I get regular emails from the speaker’s office. This one today was a real hoot: From: Mollie Young

#ncgop: Bob Luddy and his DEEP POCKETS endorse an ED candidate