Tag: NCGOP

Thoughts on the NC House GOP leadership skirmish

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

State House Republicans are meeting today to decide who will lead them through the next legislative session in Raleigh. A lot of the current leadership is running again, while a

BOHICA: Bev goes ahead on ObamaCare implementation (Where are NCGOP & Gov. Pat?)

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Friday is the deadline for the states to let the Feds know if they will be setting up health exchanges — Phase One in the implementation of ObamaCare. State governments

Recount?: Dan Forest preps for another fight as SEIU, Linda Coleman lay groundwork

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

If you thought Governor Bev Perdue had competence issues, wait until you get a load of Lt. Governor Linda Coleman. Coleman, the former Democrat legislator and state personnel chief, was

Raleigh’s “conservative revolution” off to an inauspicious start

Posted on November 9, 2012November 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The economy is in shambles. We are still coping with record unemployment. And the political class in Raleigh is FASCINATED with who will be on Pat McCrory’s transition team as

TWO majority leaders? (NC’s “conservative revolution” marches on)

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The “honorables” on Jones Street are giving us quite an eye-opening preview of where things might be headed: House Republican leaders are considering creating two

Monkey business at NCGOP cost Republicans some opportunities in-state

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s a quite common perception — outside the Raleigh beltline — that the NCGOP establishment is nothing but a tight clique of cronies. It’s not about growing the party. There

Campaign 2012: What’s cooking in Deb Butler’s kitchen?

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

*I am sure that the voters of one New Hanover County-based state senate district were looking for a deep, detailed discussion of gynecological practices during this

Corruption, dishonesty are bi-partisan ailments

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I heard through the grapevine that John Hood thinks I don’t like him very much. (For the record, all I know of him is what I read in his

NCGOP vice chair King: “Goldman? Malone? I see nothing! I know nothing!”

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

What’s been bouncing around the political gossip network for a few years has FINALLY made it to the pages of The N&O. The NCGOP establishment bent over backwards to force

Thom Tillis? DONE. Skip Stam? DONE. (Any questions?)

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I button-holed a Republican legislator recently to try and get some of the inside skinny on the happenings on Jones Street. This House member told