Tag: NCGOP

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

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