Tag: North Carolina

BAAAAD for a prospective legislator, but OK for a wannabe governor?

Posted on January 25, 2024January 25, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Politics is famous for double-standards. *Rules for THEE, but not for MEEEEEEE.* We see it all the time in DC, in Raleigh, and even on the local front. Well, it

A gun-rights rebellion in Robinson-Land?

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That’s what it looks like from here. We’re starting to notice a pattern — early, passionate, high-profile supporters of Lt. Governor Mark Robinson are defecting from Team MKR. We saw

Trump pick for NC-06 congressional primary backed to the hilt by Raleigh ‘swamp creatures’

Posted on January 21, 2024January 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

I don’t know WHO exactly Donald Trump is listening to about North Carolina politics, but he’s getting a lot of horrible advice. There was the decision to endorse Thom Tillis

Is it finally time to shut it down and start investigating?

Posted on January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 by Brant Clifton

It now appears that a Greensboro-based business owned by NC’s aspiring First Lady Yolanda Hill (aka “Mrs. Mark Robinson”) has been making unauthorized payments of tax dollars to family members for

“Where all my peeps at?”

Posted on January 13, 2024January 13, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Pretend you are considered by many to be some sort of political messiah. Pretend that you are the consensus front-runner for Governor of North Carolina AND Donald Trump’s running mate.

Could 2024 be the end of the road for congressman “Face-grabber”?

Posted on January 10, 2024January 10, 2024 by Brant Clifton

He’s been caught fabricating a company and making himself out to be some kind of entrepreneur — when he’s spent his whole adult life as a political hack. When

More Money, More Problems. (More forms, too.)

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Brant Clifton

We’ve put together more than 30 stories over the past year about Greensboro-based Balanced Nutrition. Balanced Nutrition, if you haven’t heard, is the family business for Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and

State Employees endorse Dale Folwell for governor

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Everyone seems ready to blow off the primaries and just let Mark Robinson and Josh Stein just GET TO IT. Apparently, somebody forgot to clue in North Carolina’s state employees

The 2024 race for state treasurer

Posted on December 31, 2023December 31, 2023 by Brant Clifton

With incumbent Dale Folwell‘s decision to pursue the GOP gubernatorial nomination, there are some BIG SHOES to fill over at the office of state treasurer in 2024. Folwell has won

2024 about inserting Phil Berger at top of Raleigh’s political “food chain”?

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Brant Clifton

There was a popular game making the rounds years ago called something along the lines of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” The object was to take a person’s name and