Tag: politics

From the mouths of lawyers ….

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Here’s your recently departed state elections board counsel: He could almost be talking about that recently completed charlie foxtrot in Concord.

Former NCGOP ED: criminal charge dropped, but out of a job

Posted on June 9, 2019June 9, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I don’t quite know HOW we missed this one about Dallas’s predecessor when it broke. (Of course, we’ve been a wee bit busy lately): Todd Poole, a

The NCGOP 2019 convention: The decline and fall of a political party.

Posted on June 8, 2019June 8, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It had all the chaos of the Venezuelan economy (and every bit of the integrity of that country’s elections). But — once again — the crowd that gave us

#hayesscandal: The Defendant, a “distraction”?

Posted on June 6, 2019June 6, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Once again, somnambulant Jim Morrill has the story wrong: *Doesn’t want to be a distraction. How freakin’ thoughtful.* Also, he’s not Ex. He’s STILL the chairman.

#hayesscandal: Two months since The Big-I, the NCGOP is at a crossroads.

Posted on June 2, 2019June 2, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Today marks the two month anniversary of NCGOP chairman Robin Hayes being dragged kicking, screaming and crying in front of a federal judge and slapped with FIVE – count

Polling the NCGOP leadership races

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been getting reports from delegates to the upcoming NCGOP convention about unsolicited texts and phone calls from people seeking to know who they plan to vote for in

NC-09: The drive-by media “discovers” B-roll video footage

Posted on May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 by Brant Clifton

I swear these people remind me of the monkeys in this scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The drive-by media has come across a YouTube page featuring

Fact-checking McClatchy

Posted on May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 by Brant Clifton

The conglomerate that owns most of the major drive-by newspapers in this state has a small band of smarmy teeny-boppers who so enjoy what they call “fact-checking” — catching

Jones St. drive-bys: Somebody took our “office” space away. (Call a waambulance!)

Posted on May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Laura Leslie –– who should be unemployed due to the foul social media screeds she posted against conservatives and Christians a few years back — is miffed. House leadership

Tilli$$$ 2020: Feel The Love

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Brant Clifton

You post an innocuous piece of pro-Trump propaganda and get blasted with 345 (and counting) nasty comments. A handful of them appear to be liberals. But quite a few