Tag: North Carolina

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

Time for a Truth Bomb, eh?

Posted on December 19, 2023 by Brant Clifton

THIS has been floating around social media today. (*SNIFF*! I do believe someone is trying to blow smoke up my posterior!) Gee, where do I start? “Citizen Governor” ??? Mark

Campaign ’24: A job interview or ‘American Idol’ ?

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Brant Clifton

As you review the array of names that has filed for office this year in North Carolina, ask yourself a simple question: How many of these people would I actually

Thom Tillis’s CAIR love affair

Posted on December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Thom Tillis has no credibility whatsoever on questions of foreign policy. No one in these parts asked him to go to DC and jump headfirst into that world. But damn

As our economy buckles and crumbles, Tillis and Budd ready to throw more $$$ at Ukraine mess

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Brant Clifton

We can’t seem to find money to finish the border wall or even secure the southern border. But Thom Tillis and Ted Budd are ready to join their colleagues from

What DEI hath wrought

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Brant Clifton

DEI. Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. All that sounds NIIIIIIIICE, eh? In Marxist dictatorships of yesteryear (and current day), a Communist Party membership card earned you all kinds of career or educational

Toss in a little Tillis, and there you have it — one HOT MESS.

Posted on December 9, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Some of the things the Raleigh drive-bys find stunning and surprising just crack me up. The Berger endorsement of Mark Robinson? Berger’s protégè – Jim Blaine – has occupying the

Campaign ’24: “You talkin’ to ME ???”

Posted on December 7, 2023December 7, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Mark Robinson’s campaign staff has done yeoman’s work in keeping their guy below radar and away from cameras and microphones. Somehow, the big guy found an audience – and a

Campaign ’24: The Pee Wee – for – Timmy trade