Tag: redistricting

#ncga: New maps. (Hmm …. )

Posted on January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 by Brant Clifton

The honorables have floated some new proposed districts for the state’s court system. My first thought: The districts are so nice and neat and contiguous. WHY can’t we do this

Throwing out the maps AGAIN. (Thanks, Dave.)

Posted on January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 by Brant Clifton

Candidates start filing in February for the May primaries. Yet, districts for state legislators and Congress are — to put it kindly —up in the air: A panel of three

#ncga: Senate map !!!

Posted on August 20, 2017August 21, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Okay. We’ve seen the black magic stirred up by David Lewis and the crew in the House. Here is what the Senate has come up with: SD1: As we reported

#ncga: New Senate map gives Moore County its 3rd different senator in six years

Posted on August 20, 2017August 20, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Harris Blake retired in 2012. Since then, Randolph County’s Jerry Tillman has represented us in Jones Street’s upper chamber. Now, if this current map holds, Richmond County’s Tom McInnis (R)

#ncga: Oh, look. Mail.

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Redistricting is on everybody’s mind on Jones Street. And certainly none more so this week than the mind of Senator Angela Bryant (D): Rep. Lewis and members: It is not

#ncga: NCGOPe kissing the Cook (goodbye)?

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Brant Clifton

The honorables put out some maps a few weeks ago showing potential groupings of counties for new legislative districts. Folks in the northeast have noticed that Senator Bill Cook (R)

#ncga: THE (House) plan

Posted on August 19, 2017August 19, 2017 by Brant Clifton

The NC House has released its proposed new district map. My first thought — after comparing it with the current map — is that most people are going to

#ncga: Reading the redistricting tea leaves

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Will you keep your “honorable,” or get yourself a “new” one? Court-mandated redistricting has placed this question on many a mind inside and outside Raleigh. Here’s one interesting driveby take

#ncga: “Taking Care” of Brock

Posted on July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 by Brant Clifton

Some eyebrows got raised with the appointment of senator Andrew Brock (R-Davie) to the Board of Review at the Employment Security Commission. (The job comes with a six-figure salary.)

A (not-so) civil war in Pope-land?

Posted on January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 by Brant Clifton

THAT is what it is looking like. Gazillionaire Art Pope has his hand — and cash — behind an awful lot of things political that are purportedly conservative. The John