Since Jim Gardner captured the lieutenant governor post for the GOP in 1988, the 2nd ranking post in state government has been pretty-well neutered. Since that time, the president pro
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One of the more negative aspects of the recent passage of the state budget was the stripping of state fire marshal duties from Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey. Sadly, this is
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Catching a politician engaging in a disgraceful display of hypocrisy is not all that unusual. But, thanks to his behavior throughout the extended budget brouhaha, we’re going to scrutinize Phil
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It seems like only yesterday that we heard Republican legislators moaning about the Morgan-Black regime in the NC House banishing critics into repurposed out-of-the-way broom closets. Now that the partisan
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*There’s just something about paying more attention to your donors than your voters that rubs people the wrong way. * The state budget is close to three months overdue. Senator
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Yessirreebob. The word is out that the cartels controlling each chamber of the General Assembly have come up with a “deal.” *Never mind that it’s been carved out behind closed
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The Broyhill family is at the heart of the RINO community within the NCGOP. They’ve long been the kind of warm, fuzzy Republicans that liberals regularly pat on the head
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It’s sad that we’ve become so cynical — so used to our elected officials lying to us. But the chicanery and sleaze around the latest casino shenanigans in Raleigh really
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The word is getting out that, if you expose yourself to Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson long enough, you WILL be subjected to some behavior ranging from the obnoxious to the
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It’s funny. Not ha-ha funny. Just, um, FUNNY. We were told that a veto-proof majority would allow for all kinds of Republican policy matters to roll through the legislature without
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