NC-03: Griffin goes ‘toe-to-toe’ with Laura Ingraham
A bit of advice before going on Laura Ingraham’s radio program: Put on your Big Boy / Big Girl Pants. (Laura is tough. She throws no softballs, and makes
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#NCSEN: WRAL debate battle demonstrates power of New Media
In the old days, conservative candidates simply had to TAKE whatever WRAL or The Charlotte Observer or The N&O dished out. The powers-that-be at those institutions decided what got communicated
Continue readingNCGOP: 2014 Platform hijinks? Yanking, Watering-down Tea Party stuff?
A committee is quietly working away on a draft of the North Carolina Republican Party’s 2014 platform. A well-connected source — and loyal reader — of ours managed to get
Continue reading#NCSEN: Most-electable? THE POLLS keep saying NO.
We’ve been told by Pat McCrory, Karl Rove, National Right to Life, and countless members of the drive-by media that Thom Tillis is the most-electable candidate to take on Kay
Continue readingNCGOP: Davidson County, too?
We’ve posted about the involvement of an NCGOP staffer in a Republican state House member’s reelection campaign in Pitt County. That incumbent is involved in a primary this year. There
Continue readingNCGOP staffer at center of state elections complaint
We reported previously on a state elections complaint filed against North Carolina state Rep. Brian Brown (R). Brown, a House freshman, is locked in a primary contest with Ashley Bleau.
Continue readingUnfunded liabilities and North Carolina’s public debt shell game
Some observers though the GOP establishment in Raleigh might have bought off The John Locke Foundation when Gov. McCrory named Art Pope as his budget director. But, apparently, nobody told
Continue reading#NCSEN: New Time Warner poll has UNDECIDED leading GOP field
Time Warner Cable News is out with a new poll showing Tillis, Brannon, and Harris leading the Republican field to oppose Kay Hagan in November. The problem for those guys?
Continue readingNC-09: Pittenger following Ellmers playbook on ObamaCare, amnesty
Things are going so, um, *well* for Renee Ellmers over here in NC-02 that congressman Robert Pittenger is following her lead on two of this season’s most explosive, controversial issues.
Continue readingRaleigh setting us up for ONE MORE hit to the wallet? (ahem, TOLL ROADS.)
We got hit with headlines this week suggesting that roadwork across the state could grind to a halt very soon –– thanks to the Federal Highway Trust Fund running out
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