Tag: Tim Moore

#ncga: The House’s dirty laundry gets aired

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Brant Clifton

State Rep. Justin Burr and Speaker Tim Moore have been publicly trading barbs over the past few days. Well, Burr has gotten in the last word — for now —

#ncga: Tiny Tim roars back

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It appears that state Rep. Justin Burr’s public broadside struck a nerve with House speaker Tim Moore: Moore said in a phone interview he plans to seek the speakership for

#ncga: Um, tell us how you REALLY feel.

Posted on December 1, 2015December 1, 2015 by Brant Clifton

For a while, I’ve been hearing that state Rep. Justin Burr has been learning a painful lesson: In politics, people will lie to you and stab you in the back.

#ncpol #ncga: Move over Alicia Silverstone. Here comes Binky!

Posted on November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

I’ve had some suspicions about Mark Binker’s level of intelligence and general awareness of things going on around him. Stuff like this confirms those suspicions: Incredible. Perhaps Binky is trying to

#ncga: How IN-KIND of you

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Brant Clifton

There’s a lot of drama percolating in the House GOP caucus over campaign finance reports. The speaker of the House, Tim Moore, has apparently been caught (1) reimbursing himself for

#ncga: When all else fails, throw your campaign treasurer under the bus

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We reported yesterday on the heat House speaker Tim Moore is getting from a driveby TV station in his home turf. We saw video from said driveby TV program which

#ncga: A Speaker and his Money

Posted on November 9, 2015November 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It’s always been said that –when you make it to the top — you become a more appealing target. House speaker Tim Moore is apparently learning that the hard way

#ncga: Nelson STILL ain’t happy. (But movie incentives are BACK!)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The N&O tells us there are still ‘quite significant’ disagreements in the state budget talks between the GOP-led House and GOP-led Senate. (According to Fox and Friends, our governor is

#ncga: YOU-KNOW-WHAT runs downhill …

Posted on August 25, 2015August 25, 2015 by Brant Clifton

The GOP-run state Senate is running like a finely tuned machine. They are churning out conservative legislation left-and-right. The House? It’s a soap opera. It’s a mess. And by all

#ncga: Doing the, um, hustle? (Budget boogie?)

Posted on August 10, 2015August 10, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Folks on Jones Street, who talk to us, say that the Senate has been pitching offers to House leadership on the budget. But those have been met with cricket sounds.