A missed opportunity for Barbara Jackson
A bi-partisan group of 58 sitting sheriffs (out of a total of 100) emphatically endorsed the reelection of NC Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jackson the week before the election. But
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Constitution Party gets a win on Tuesday
The Constitution Party fared pretty well in its first general election in North Carolina. CPofNC candidate Jerry Jones came out on top in a county commissioner race in Greene County.
Continue readingAnd let the spin BEGIN …
The six-figure salaried frat boys at NCGOP HQ are already taking to social media to try and make lemonade out of Tuesday’s lemons: Let’s see. When Dallas The Boy Wonder
Continue readingIn Lee County, a 24-year old GOP star is born
Quite a few twenty-somethings in North Carolina politics make pilgrimages to Raleigh with visions of making it big QUICK. Patrick McHenry, for instance, got elected to the North Carolina House
Continue readingA post-mortem on Tuesday. (Look, Ma. We’re goin’ backwards.)
For Republicans and conservatives across North Carolina, there was not a whole lot to cheer about Tuesday night. Our side got out-hustled, out-strategized, out-raised, out-marketed. *Out-EVERYTHINGED.* To satisfy the folks
Continue reading#ncga: The (NC House) $$$ chase thus far …
Whoever has the most money is not always the best indicator of who will come out on top when the smoke clears at the end of election day. Factors like
Continue readingKey figure in Easley scandals cuts big check to NC Senate GOPers
A name that popped up a lot amid reporting on scandals surrounding then-governor Mike Easley is now popping up on a state Republican campaign report. There was the issue of
Continue readingCommercial fishing group OPPOSES hunting / fishing amendment
A group you’d THINK would be very excited about a “freedom to hunt and fish” amendment to the state constitution is showing they are less than thrilled. Here is an
Continue readingPoll-working can (apparently) be hazardous to your health.
That’s what it looks like down in, of all places, Robeson County: The former chief judge at the early voting site in Fairmont says he was told he was transferred
Continue reading#ncga: Jeff Tarte, down with The Struggle.
We came across a recent episode of a Facebook podcast called “The Millennial Voice.” It featured state senator Jeff Tarte answering rather vapid questions from a rather bright-eyed, bushy-tailed millennial
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