Tag: politics

NCGOPe on the move

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Amid the hubbub surrounding the impeachment trial and the State of the Union, there has been some interesting tactical movement in and around a certain Hillsborough Street building

NC11: Meadows, Jordan, Freedom Caucus ALL IN for Lynda Bennett

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Brant Clifton

The Freedom Caucus, whose members are arguably President Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers in the US House, has gone public with its endorsement of Haywood County GOP activist

#ncpol: Mr. Folwell rightly scolds our goofy Guv.

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 by Brant Clifton

Roy Cooper is a master at running to the media and taking credit for stuff he had LITTLE to NOTHING to do with. (Don’t believe me? Check out the

KING Arthur for, um — Moore / Hoke District Attorney ???

Posted on January 25, 2020January 25, 2020 by Brant Clifton

I had always thought fantasy role-playing (in public) was an activity reserved mainly for young children, as well as high school and college students who can’t get

Does Dale Folwell owe you money?

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Brant Clifton

(Or, more likely, someone else?) The treasurer’s office maintains a “found money” database of funds that are trying to be reunited with their actual owners. Of course, you

Jones Street. The partisan index. And 2020.

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Brant Clifton

The North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation, a GOP-leaning establishment pro-business group, regularly analyzes our General Assembly districts and computes things called partisan indexes. These are sort of like the

Some thoughts on filing (thus far)

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Here is the latest list. Revenge. Rematch. etc. It seems a number of folks are attempting to regain posts they lost in 2018. Former senator

Google,um, “notices” us.

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Brant Clifton

It all started about a year or two ago when Google’s search engine results for our site labeled us as “potential malware” and cautioned users not to click

#ncsen: When candidates attack! (We got mail.)

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

Look who we heard from: This article is a complete fabrication paid for by Garland Tucker who has spent millions of dollars and barely polls above 10%. He

Is US Senate candidate Sandy Smith’s family biz tied to solar farm mess in Currituck?

Posted on November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 by Brant Clifton

Even Ray Charles, Ronnie Millsap, and Doc Watson could see that Greenville’s Sandy Smith is merely a stalking horse meant to split the anti-Tillis vote in the GOP primary