Tag: NCGOP

Burning down the (NC) House

Posted on June 24, 2023June 24, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s an interesting time to be a House Republican in Raleigh. From what I’m hearing on the inside, no one in the House GOP caucus has the guts to stand

$50K in pay raises over FIVE YEARS for Timmy’s gal pal

Posted on June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Working in state government appears to have been very very very good for Jamie Liles Lassiter, the Wake County woman at the center of North Carolina’s hottest political scandal. Our

With Timmy and ‘Big Mark’ under fire, Boss Phil flexing his muscle on Jones Street

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Some legislators are complaining that life on Jones Street is making them feel like debtors late on payments to a loan shark. I’m hearing reports that senate president Phil Berger

REWARD OFFERED for info leading to POSITIVE ID of Speaker Timmy’s co-defendant

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Sometimes, it take cold hard cash to motivate people to cough up info and do the right thing. Many a lawman will tell you that. Everyone knows about the bombshell

Have you seen THIS MAN?

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

According to media reports, Speaker Tim Moore says he doesn’t know who the above person is. Attorneys for Scott Lassiter have labeled him “John Doe” and named him a co-defendant

The Charge of the Troxler Brigade

Posted on June 20, 2023June 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Pope, Inc. put out a poll on the governor’s race not long ago featuring the name of Agriculture commissioner Steve Troxler. Troxler? Where did that come from? There hasn’t been

Complaint: Speaker Timmy a wife-stealer

Posted on June 18, 2023June 18, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It looks and sounds like the tubby little guy at the front of the House chamber is not in for a very good week. Break-ins and surveillance cameras? Holy Watergate!

Should we stay or should we go?

Posted on June 18, 2023 by Brant Clifton

One of the great rock bands of all time asked a similar question several decades ago. Sometimes, it can be tough to choose a path forward when you’ve been

Clapping like trained seals while the country crumbles

Posted on June 17, 2023June 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I recently had the, um, “pleasure” of watching some US House committee hold a field hearing in Pinehurst about last December’s blackout. Two things really stuck out to me: DC

Even MORE NCGOP voting app questions

Posted on June 15, 2023 by Brant Clifton

WHO actually got paid to develop and manage the voting app used in the very controversial chairman’s election during this past weekend’s NCGOP convention? Initially, the only entity named on