Tag: Ted Budd

No Troops. No ESG. No Comment. No Dice. (Have you met Ted?)

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Brant Clifton

I can now say that I HAVE met Ted. Budd, that is. Our paths crossed at an event in Sanford Friday night. I have to hand it to him. Budd

Tillis, Budd team up to grow the welfare state

Posted on February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Indian reservations have arguably outlived their usefulness. They did some good amid the turmoil of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But nowadays, Indian reservations and related programs do

Spending cuts BEFORE debt ceiling increase: Budd says YES. (NO Comment from Tillis.)

Posted on January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 by Brant Clifton

It’s good to see our new senator siding with the likes of Mike Lee (R-Utah): Twenty-four Republican senators have signed a letter to President Joe Biden stating their opposition to raising

Ted Budd’s chief of staff a recent alum of Pfizer, alleged home of “COVID cash cow”

Posted on January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Our junior US senator has been maintaining quite a low profile on Capitol Hill since winning the November 2022 election and getting sworn in. But Project Veritas’s release of a

From DPI to Team Budd

Posted on December 22, 2022 by Brant Clifton

He’s back. When we last saw Catherine Truitt’s predecessor at NC DPI, Mark Johnson, he was quitting his post to make a quixotic run for lieutenant governor. (Johnson finished third

Team Budd starts to assemble

Posted on December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 by Brant Clifton

We got an interesting release today detailing our senator-elect’s first two hires. A guy named Tucker Knott will be chief of staff, while a guy named Chad Yelinski will

Even More FTX $$$$ in NC: Cui Bono?

Posted on November 18, 2022November 18, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Who benefits? I want to start off with a hearty welcome to the fray for young Colon Campbell, formerly of The N&O’s men’s room beat and now the editor

Sippin’ on that Tillis kool-aid

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Check out this quote in DC’s The Hill newspaper: […]“North Carolina is a true purple state. Thirty percent of our voters are registered Republicans, 34 [percent] are registered as Democrats,

#ncsen: Showdown at the Spectrum Corral

Posted on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 by Brant Clifton

I’ve had time to soak in the developments from Friday night’s US Senate debate. I’ve talked to some not-so-political folks as well as my usual coterie of political animals. Here

Drive-bys working OT to split Trump, GOP candidates

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Brant Clifton

The godawful NY Times came out with a report recently claiming that all kinds of GOP candidates are “distancing” themselves from Donald Trump. The Times specifically included Ted Budd