Tag: Thom Tillis

Team Charlotte SPLIT on voter ID details?

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Brant Clifton

House Speaker Thom Tillis and Gov. Pat McCrory have BOTH said they would be willing to accept voter ID legislation that DOES NOT require an officially-issued photo

Carolina Comeback?: kick people off unemployment, raise taxes, send state $$$$ to Carolina Panthers

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

One of Richard Morgan’s favorite legislators, Julia Howard, says we need to kick a bunch of people off of unemployment by July 1. In the meantime, legislators from Gov. Pat

As Gov. Pat goes, so goes Speaker Thom

Posted on January 26, 2013January 26, 2013 by Brant Clifton

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the state House leadership and the governor’s office are working in tandem. And NOT in a good way. Speaker Thom Tillis talks tough

Tillis on Facebook: I’ve BEEN saying NO to exchanges AND the feds’ bribe money! (Where have you guys, been?)

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Thanks to US — state House Thom Tillis has been getting beat around the head and shoulders by grassroots activists all weekend for his rather ho-hum attitude about

In Raleigh, the conservative revolution is starting to look a lot more like Family Feud

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Brant Clifton

Chris Fitzsimon and the rest of the portside gang are beside themselves — thinking that the free market terror is going to sweep across the four

Tillis: question is NOT whether to implement ObamaCare, but HOW to do it

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Brant Clifton

It appears the “conservative revolution” in Raleigh is NOT going to follow the lead of South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and 24 other U.S. states in fighting the

Here we go again: Berger makes sense on reparations, Tillis DOES NOT

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Let’s recap. We have record unemployment, and one of the highest gas tax burdens in America. We have the third highest amount of debt to the federal government

Deafening silence on ObamaCare from leaders of ‘conservative revolution’ in Raleigh

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Gov Bill Haslam (R-TN), a moderate who campaigned for Pat McCrory this year, has announced his state will refuse to establish a health exchange called for in

Tillis & Rucho: Pre-K $$$ BAD. $$$ for Panthers, Red Line GOOD.

Posted on November 30, 2012November 30, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It’s quite a rarity to find myself agreeing with Chris Fitzsimon. But I’m in one of those moments. (What’s next? Cats and dogs living together?) One

NC House GOP re-ups with Tillis, delays vote on other offices

Posted on November 17, 2012November 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

It looks like we’re going to get two more years of Thom Tillis in the House chamber’s big chair. It also looks like proposal to alter the majority leader job