Tag: NCGOP

Down with The Struggle: Walter Dalton, soul brother #1

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

There’s nothing like the whitest white man on the planet Earth complaining that someone else doesn’t get “the black experience.” But that’s what we

‘Pay To Play’ alive and well on Jones Street

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Brant Clifton

When the GOP majority took over the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011, we were promised an end to pay-to-play. Pay-to-play has typically meant the shakedown of lobbyists and other

District Court race features a super PAC, bare-knuckled rhetoric and verbal combat

Posted on September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Judicial races in North Carolina tend to be quiet, gentlemanly affairs that occur below the radar. Not this year. Not in our neck of the woods. Randolph County

NCGOV-wannabes talk about JOBS

Posted on September 19, 2012September 19, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’ve talked about A LOT of stuff in the 2012 race for governor of North Carolina. We’ve heard a lot about Pat McCrory’s tax returns. We’ve been treated

Moore County Tea Partiers get in Robin Hayes’s face

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Dee Park, president of Moore Tea Citizens, tried to pull off a stunt on Sept. 10 akin to a permanent peace agreement between cats and dogs. She brought in North

Morton Blackwell sounds off on RNC rules change controversy

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Remember the video of Robin Hayes’s temper tantrum at the RNC? There was an older gentleman in the video who was invited as a guest speaker to explain

NCGOP moves into damage control mode

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In the face of a “Fire Hayes and Clean House” groundswell among party activists, the folks at NCGOP are taking steps to limit damage caused by

Did Rantin’ Robin spark an intra-party rebellion?

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We are still feeling the aftershocks from NCGOP chairman Robin Hayes’s videotaped Tony Soprano-style shakedown of North Carolina delegates at the Tampa convention. I’ve personally heard from numerous activists

Grassroots Republicans protest hardball tactics at GOP national convention

Posted on September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s looking more and more like the DC Republican establishment has created for itself a MAJOR PR ISSUE that could blow up in the party’s collective face in

Republican Liberty Caucus source stands up for Ada Fisher in RNC rule change fight

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We recently reported on a video documenting a temper-tantrum / tirade by NCGOP chairman Robin Hayes at the national GOP convention in Tampa. The meeting documented on video