Tag: NCGOP

#nc-02: Frank Roche says Nee-Nee needs to Quit-Quit

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

No, it’s not for what you might think. Roche has put out video replaying Renee Elmers’s 2010 statement about her support for term limits. Specifically, she says THREE TERMS is

The New “McCarthy”-ism (As the establishment spins)

Posted on October 10, 2015October 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

If you believe the drive-bys, it’s Walter Jones’s fault. It’s THAT GOP donor’s fault. It’s the Tea Party’s fault. Washington is all abuzz and in turmoil over a story that

A Civil War, or an EVICTION?

Posted on October 9, 2015October 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Conservatives of the Tea Party ilk are being portrayed as unreasonable, petty children who turn over the gameboard and throw a fit when they don’t get their way. The establishmentarians

ANOTHER attempt to oust Lewis from RNC?

Posted on October 8, 2015October 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The Third District GOP took a stab at it. Now, this comes over the transom: Dear North Carolina Republicans, Please forward this email to any other NC Republican you know.

#ncga: GOPers celebrated by solar subsidy lobby

Posted on October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The folks who have feasted in our wallets for years to fund their solar energy follies spend time this past week celebrating the NCGA Republicans who have been so good

#ncgop: Impeachment for ‘gross inefficiency’

Posted on October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Seriously? We can do that? (Wow. Talk about a great method for down-sizing government.) There were fireworks this weekend when Third Congressional District Republican leaders got together. They had state

#ncgop: County party chairmen lash out at Berger, Moore re: H373, S119

Posted on October 4, 2015October 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The furor over that affiliated committees mess is not dying down. I had been hearing that Speaker Tim Moore and President Pro Tem Phil Berger have been getting an earful

#ncgop: Gettin’ all stupid up in here!

Posted on October 2, 2015October 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

”Yo, you don’t even know what stupid is. It’s about to get all stupid up in here!” — Michael Scott, Dunder-Mifflin Paper Co. ——————————- All of the spin about unity

#ncpol: RIP, NCGOP

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s a new day in North Carolina politics. We’ve been saying for a while that the political parties no longer matter much. They are a great vehicle for getting the

#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