#NCSEN: Who is John Rhodes?
”I didn’t go looking for this opportunity,” said John Rhodes, the best-known of the three qualified write-in candidates for US Senate in North Carolina. “It found me. People have come
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‘Who Knows?’ Big questions still linger about the price tag for Tillis Tholl Roads
Thom Tillis pushed approval for privately-managed toll roads through the North Carolina House despite objections from NCGOP grassroots leaders. Skip Stam has endorsed the idea. Gov. Pat McCrory has
Continue reading#NCGA: All roads lead back to Thom (and his campaign fund)
During debate this week on economic development incentives, legislators were reminded that $7 million in state incentives had been allocated for the filming of CBS’s “Under The Dome” series in
Continue reading#NCSEN: PPP says Hagan 42, Tillis 38, Haugh 8
The Democrat incumbent climbs slightly while the GOP challenger gains 4 points and the Libertarian holds where he was last month. (Margin of error is +-3.4 percent. A total of
Continue reading#FAIL: HB 1224 dies. Thom The Therrible learns karma is a female dog.
The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests. It got shot down once
Continue readingMonkey Business Update: party disloyalty, HB 1224, and film incentives back from the dead
Well, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously. Apparently, some ”pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site” spilled the beans before the plan could
Continue readingCivitas boss: We WILL be watching on HB 1224
General Assembly Republicans had a rather heated caucus meeting about the controversial HB 1224 legislation on Monday. Sources in the caucus meeting told us that sources close to speaker Thom
Continue reading#NCGA: Thom The Therrible going all gangsta on his own troops?
Not giving the speaker what he wants is now akin to party disloyalty. If the powers-that-be in the North Carolina House have their way, that will be absolutely true. We
Continue reading#NCSEN: Tillis’s problems are Greg Brannon’s fault? *RIIIIIIIIIIGHT.*
Thom Tillis is not so hot a commodity with Tea Party types in the Tar Heel State. One NCGOP establishment blogger is laying the blame NOT on the speaker’s campaign,
Continue reading#NCSEN: Conservatives NOT touting Tillis. NRSC toadie PISSED OFF.
The Senate Conservatives Fund was founded by former US Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) to counter the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s passion for recruiting and backing spectacular RINOs. They began seriously
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