You may recall our previous coverage of efforts by Craven County Republicans to censure state House Speaker Thom Tillis. What is behind all of this? Well, local activists have long
Continue readingSpeaker Senator Speaker Senator (Spenakor ??) Thom Tillis has gone to the mat defending the idea of using HOT Lanes and toll roads to finance road
Continue readingWill she, or won’t she? (WHO CARES ????) McClatchy and WRAL — and the political chattering classes — apparently are concerned about whether US Rep. Renee Ellmers, conqueror of Bobby
Continue readingIt is looking more and more like Charlotte pastor Mark Harris is about to join Cary physician Greg Brannon and state House Speaker Thom Tillis in the May 2014 GOP
Continue readingThe NCGOP has supermajorities in both chambers of the General Assembly. The Democrats can’t stop a thing. (They’re all out in the lobby getting ziptied with Bill Barber.) The NCGOP
Continue readingRob “Mr. Politics” Christensen tells us that “tax reform” is dead and buried. Never mind that a proposal to abolish the corporate income tax is very much alive and well
Continue readingA poll by the left-wing Public Policy Polling firm of Durham suggests that a grassroots, Tea Party-backed amateur candidate and the president pro tem of the State Senate would perform
Continue readingTalk about cojones. chutzpah. BIG ONES. Last weekend, delegates to the NCGOP state convention spoke out loud and clear against HOT lanes, toll roads, and anything else of that
Continue readingThis was supposed to be a great weekend for Thom Tillis. He’s presiding over the state House at a historic time for the NCGOP. The state GOP convention was in
Continue readingStephen Laroque has really taken us on a roller coaster ride during his time in Raleigh. The former GOP lawmaker was a supporter of Richard Morgan’s 2002-2006 alliance with former
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