Tag: politics

The NCGOP E.D. rumor mill …

Posted on July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Names of potential replacements for Dallas are starting to leak out of Hillsborough Street. (Trial balloons, perhaps?) Anyway, here is what we have: Jim Burton. We’ve

UNC Hospitals tries to work AROUND Folwell on state health plan. Folwell calls them out.

Posted on July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Taxpayer-funded UNC Hospitals got caught red-handed using state funds to aid dirty political maneuvering against state treasurer Dale Folwell. After being busted by a Charlotte drive-by, the hospital group

UNC Hospitals caught funding attack on state treasurer Dale Folwell

Posted on June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 by Brant Clifton

A state-funded entity using taxpayer funds to wage political warfare against an elected state official. (*Isn’t THAT special?*) State treasurer Dale Folwell was inspired to pursue his

NC-03: The McIntyres (D) return Joan Perry’s favor

Posted on June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 by Brant Clifton

For a former Democrat congressman, Mike McIntyre sure is playing a major role in a Republican primary (in a district he doesn’t even live in). Joan Perry

#ncga: Steinburg, Hanig group-hug with leftists on the environment

Posted on June 23, 2019June 23, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Yep. I am sooooo sure that THIS is what all of you voted for in 2018: Regardless of personal views, state officials agree that climate change is happening,

NC-03: Early voting numbers looking good for Greg Murphy

Posted on June 23, 2019June 23, 2019 by Brant Clifton

That’s the take from Civitas: […W]hile [Joan] Perry has won the headlines this week, there is evidence that [Greg] Murphy is quietly winning the vote. Through the first

#ncga: A majority leader and his money

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It’s always interesting to see the folks who write our tax laws, and decide what happens with OUR MONEY, struggle with the very same regulations and laws they foist

US Senate hopeful Sandy Smith neglects to mention the REAL family business

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Brant Clifton

She made a move toward running for the Third Congressional District seat, but bailed on that plan at the last minute. Now, Sandy Smith of Winterville, North Carolina is

FirstBank CEO being wooed by Dems to run for US Senate

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Brant Clifton

That’s what’s being leaked out there. Hmmm. If he makes it to a general election face-off against Thom Tillis, we’d have on our hands a battle royale

Tillis and that rating from FiveThirtyEight.com

Posted on June 15, 2019June 15, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Ninety-three percent! Ninety-five percent! The Tillis campaign eagerly throws those numbers out as a way of “proving” how conservative their man is. Those figures actually come from