Tag: pork

‘I smell pork.’

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Brant Clifton

It’s official. Earmarks are back. And EVERY congressman gets ten: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) confirmed late on Feb. 26 that earmarks—which she termed “Community Project

#ncga: Charity calls out Tarte on his PORK

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Brant Clifton

I thought it was unusual to see $200,000 tucked away in the recent budget agreement for “classroom supplies.” Those are normally appropriations handled by local governing entities — city

Taxpayers on the hook for High Point pro baseball

Posted on December 9, 2017December 9, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Settle back, folks. This is a story that involves something in Raleigh that you likely don’t hear much about — The Local Government Commission. Here is an explanation of the

Tarte: I handed out YOUR money to “save kids” (NOT TO BUY MY RE-ELECTION)

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Apparently, state senator Jeff Tarte has been fielding some questions about his hand-off of $200,000 of our money to a local charity in Mecklenburg County. The charity has ONE MILLION

#ncga: Republican ‘pork’? (Oink!)

Posted on June 21, 2017June 21, 2017 by Brant Clifton

The budget made it through the House basically on a party line vote. (We exhibited our complete disgust and nausea about the agreement earlier.) The debate featured some of the

#ncga: Jimmy and the pigs

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Brant Clifton

No, that’s not an Elton John classic. Or a new NBC sitcom. The lefty praetorian guard over at IndyWeek is accusing our old, um, *pal* Jimmy Dixon of protecting

#ncga: Sniff, sniff. I smell PORK.

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Brant Clifton

The drivebys are trumpeting a great agreement on the budget between the two chambers on Jones Street. This agreement is loaded with the same kind of pork-flavored crap we’ve grown to

#ncga: (SNIFF I smell bacon.) NO pork for YOU !!!!

Posted on May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 by Brant Clifton

It sounds like Seinfeld’s ‘soup nazi’ paid a visit to the NC House Republican Caucus confab yesterday. Some honorables seeking PORK were de-nied. It’s budget time. So, the GOPers were

Your tax dollars at work: Selling American rock music to foreign consumers

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Unbelievable. We have an economy in free-fall. Record numbers of people out of work. Record amounts of federal debt. Air traffic controllers being furloughed. Parks being