Tag: NCGOP

#ncga: Some common sense on the gas tax, NC Competes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

House speaker Tim Moore and the rest of the GOP leadership in Raleigh are crowing about how much better off we’ll be now that they’ve approved an increase in the

#ncga: GOP leaders passing stuff with Democrat votes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

In Washington, House speaker John Boehner has shown he has no issue with pushing legislation that flies in the face of the GOP platform and needs Democrat votes in order

NCGOP once again meddling in local politics?

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Are Republican power-brokers in the state trying to manipulate party organizations at the local level? It’s starting to look that way. We reported on US Rep. Renee Ellmers issuing an

NC-02: Ellmers wades into contested county GOP chairman election

Posted on March 7, 2015March 7, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Only a small sliver of Cumberland County sits in the Second Congressional District, but incumbent US Rep. Renee Ellmers is extracting her dark brown nose from leadership rectums on Capitol Hill

Nurse Ellmers Goes to Guatemala

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Brant Clifton

What the world needs is more nurses in power. THAT appears to be the thesis of an op-ed written by Reps. Renee Ellmers(R-NC) and Diane Black (R-TN) about their recent

#ncga: How to deal with road construction $$$ “woes”? STOP ROBBING THE HIGHWAY FUND.

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Some of the honorables on Jones Street — aided and abetted by the drive by media — are still pushing that myth about how cash-starved the state is for road

#ncga: Who the #@*$ is in charge here ?????

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

From what Jones Street insiders are telling me, Cumberland County Rep. Rick Glazier (D) is the closest thing to a leader in the General Assembly’s lower chamber. And HE is

NC-02: Liberal GOPers fawn over Renee

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

The Ripon Society — a left-leaning Republican group that basically wants to evict the church-going, Ronald Reagan / Barry Goldwater / Hesse Helms — idolizing crowd from the GOP —

#ncga: An ORGY of taxing & spending breaks out amid the ‘conservative revolution’

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

It seems the folks on Jones Street have kicked off one heck of an orgy — apparently in honor of the box office success of ’50 Shades of Grey.’ Let’s

NC-02: Jim Duncan is “testing the waters.” (It begins?)

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

It appears that outgoing Chatham County GOP chairman Jim Duncan is hearing the calls for change in the Second Congressional District. He’s formed something called a ”testing the waters committee”