Tag: Renee Ellmers

#nc-02: Nee-Nee sticks us with the bill

Posted on November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

What’s bad for brawlin’ Bobby E. is apparently A-Okay for Nee-Nee. (Gosh, we’re poetic this morning.) We’ve written extensively about stuff that show up in our mailboxes here in the Second

#ncpol: Ellmers joins Dems in bringing Ex-Im Bank back from dead

Posted on October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It was a nasty piece of government waste and cronyism. It needed to go. Its charter expired on June 30. It WAS dead. But congressional Democrats — and some Republicans

#nc-02: Nee-Nee does the Ex-Im dance

Posted on October 27, 2015October 27, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The GOPe is at it again. Just when you thought it was dead, the Export-Import Bank is coming back from the dead with a vengeance like we haven’t seen since

#nc-02: Drive-bys scrambling to save Nee-Nee

Posted on October 18, 2015October 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The N&O is officially inserting itself into the 2016 campaign — making all kinds of in-kind contributions to its beloved former Raleigh mayor Charles (*Slobber, Swoon*) Meeker’s campaign for state

#NC-02: Tim D’Annunzio testing the waters?

Posted on October 15, 2015October 15, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Or at least someone appears to be doing it for him. Phone polling was conducted yesterday throughout the Second Congressional District with a lot of questions mentioning the wealthy Hoke

#nc-02: ‘Mean Girls’ comes to town

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

SNL’s Tina Fey came out with a movie a few years back that amazingly documented those high school girls we all knew and hated when we were in high school.

#nc-02: Frank Roche says Nee-Nee needs to Quit-Quit

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Brant Clifton

No, it’s not for what you might think. Roche has put out video replaying Renee Elmers’s 2010 statement about her support for term limits. Specifically, she says THREE TERMS is

The New “McCarthy”-ism (As the establishment spins)

Posted on October 10, 2015October 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

If you believe the drive-bys, it’s Walter Jones’s fault. It’s THAT GOP donor’s fault. It’s the Tea Party’s fault. Washington is all abuzz and in turmoil over a story that

#ncpol: McCarthy, um, PULLS OUT. Ellmers lawyers up.

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The all-but-anointed speaker of the House is now outta there: House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)has dropped out of the race for the Speakership of the House moments before

#nc-02: Leftist heads explode over Kay Daly ad

Posted on September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Kay Daly has just jumped in to the Second District GOP congressional primary, but she’s already got her potential general election foes in a tizzy. Take this tweet from Mother