Gov. Pat’s ”kinder and gentler” & bipartisan new budget director
They’re dancing in the streets in Carrboro. The Great Satan — Art Pope — is stepping away from his state government role. There is a new feeling of hope and optimism
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Washington Post: GOP effort to take #NCSEN seat “problematic”
Yep. That’s the way veteran political analyst Dan Balz characterizes the 2014 tussle between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh: […] Republicans need to win
Continue reading#NCSEN: ”What are they gonna do? Vote for Kay Hagan ???”
A friend of mine and loyal reader of this site — who also happens to be a political A-lister /celeb / newsmaker in Raleigh — passed on a pretty disturbing
Continue reading#NCGA: Speaker Moffitt?
I spoke with a handful of Republican House members this weekend just for the sake of taking the political temperature. We’ve previously reported — thanks to inside information — that
Continue reading#NCGA: Drive-by disagreement on GOP “chaos”
In this morning’s dispatch from Low-T state HQ, the shih-tzu is lamenting this “never-ending session” of the North Carolina General Assembly. I am sure the fact that the session has
Continue readingIs moving left politically REALLY “Kinder and Gentler?”
My political life tracks back to the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign. That’s where I cut my teeth in this game. I was attracted to Bush because of his ties to my
Continue reading#NCGA: Drive-by Binky rankled by big govt? Seriously?
Rankled. If the drive-bys can use that word and play that card, then — by God — so can I. WRAL’s ace cub reporter (and lunch-fetcher for Miz Leslie) Binky is
Continue reading#NCGA: GOP House member laments his party’s back-track, retreat on tax policy
Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the
Continue reading#NCSEN: ANOTHER poll (this time from conservatives) showing slim Hagan lead
Human Events, a longtime flagship publication of the American conservative movement, has partnered with Gravis Marketing to take the political temperature in The Tar Heel State. They conducted a poll of
Continue reading#NCSEN: Tillis goes Hollywood, backs $40 million in additional state incentives for film industry
During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV
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