Tag: NCGOP

#NCGOP Long knives already out for Nix, Harnett

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

I am really starting to look like a psychic. In a previous post about Hasan Harnett’s upset win in the NCGOP chairman’s race, I talked about the possibility of sore

#NCGOP (Damn! Was that an Earthquake ????)

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

The rumors of the grassroots’ demise are greatly exaggerated. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, foresaw the events that transpired at the NCGOP convention in Raleigh today. Cabarrus County Tea Party

#ncga House Finance GOPers teaming up with Dems on licenses for illegals

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In 2014, the NCGOP platform said THIS: […] We support the issuance of a driver’s license or state identification card only to those who are lawfully present. […] Here in 2015,

Tholl Road revolt in Mecklenburg ready to blow up on GOP establishment?

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

Thom Tillis could have been taken down by this issue in the 2014 US Senate race — had it not been for an overall incompetent campaign by Kay Hagan and

#ncga ONE MORE reason we won’t miss Nathan Ramsey in Raleigh

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Recruiting Rs instead of conservatives is a key ingredient to giving you the mess we have in the lower chamber on Jones Street. Republicans rose to power in this state

NC-03: Tata coming after Walter Jones?

Posted on June 1, 2015June 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s no secret that Walter Jones irritates the political establishment. The GOPe tried to get him in the 2014 primary. Now, it appears they’re trying again with a new face:

Buck Newton: Our next AG?

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The Democrats have come after Wilson’s Buck Newton hard. In 2010, they slandered him as a drug dealer. (Newton went on to knock off a long-time incumbent Democrat senator.) In 2012, his Democrat

#ncga “Ain’t skeered.”

Posted on May 31, 2015May 31, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Somebody’s feeling like quite the struttin’ bantam rooster these days: […] At Friday morning’s meeting, McCrory also had sharp criticism for his Republican colleagues in the legislature, where his bond

#ncga: Feel like somebody’s watching you?

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I talked this week with one of my moles on Jones Street. This person was absolutely floored by the amount of public feedback in this whole debate on alternative energy

NC-02: That giant SUCKING sound