Tag: Robert Brawley

I heard from one of our numerous friends on Jones Street regarding THIS POST.   Robert Brawley, the former GOP House member challenging Pat McCrory in the March primary, has said on-the-record that the administration is planning to toll every major thoroughfare in the state.  Their…

Republican gubernatorial candidate — and former legislator — Robert Brawley says that the uproar over tolls on I-77 in Mecklenburg is not simply a local issue: […] Brawley says he started looking into the issue of tolling as a means to pay for the state’s…

We’ve written extensively about the I-77 toll road dispute in northern Mecklenburg County.  it’s been quite heated.  It cost — and came close to costing — some area politicians their jobs.  The McCrory administration has stood firm on the deal with the Spanish contractor —…

A tendency to use the government bureaucracy to snoop on and intimidate perceived opponents.  An enemy’s list.  Screaming fits at press aides regarding his coverage. Campaigning as a conservative, but governing as a statist.  No real ideological moorings, That’s how a lot of people would…

Again, it is astounding to watch how viciously and ruthlessly the GOPe goes after ANYONE perceived as a threat.  From a local TV reporter to a former legislator — the SOP appears to involve using an RPG to swat a fly. Now we have Ruth…

It’s interesting to see Team McCrory so worked up over Robert Brawley.  Their guy has all the money and name ID and organization.  Brawley is not so well known outside of the Charlotte area, and doesn’t have much of a campaign treasury. Right as the…

He was never a go-along get-along kind of guy. He frequently called out colleagues — Republican and Democrat — when he saw them doing what he perceived was unethical, wrong, or illegal.  He refused to play the game, and got run out office by establishment…

He was an outspoken  critic of House leadership.  Then-speaker Thom Tillis found him a primary opponent and helped knock him out of the House.  Theam Thillis may have knocked Robert Brawley down, but they haven’t put him out. In an email to supporters this week,…

Word from Washington today is that freshman U.S. senator Thom Tillis is upset with the Federal Communications Commission. Why, you ask? Let’s find out:  U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is moving to overturn a Federal Communications Commission decision that would lift restrictions on city-owned broadband…

State House Republican leaders tried hard to spin the censure of one of their colleagues yesterday as anything but a vendetta executed at the order of Speaker Thom Tillis.  We spoke with three sources — intimately familiar with the inner workings of the House Republican…