Tag: US Senate

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

We TOLD you !!!

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been making this point for over a decade now. So many people are just now waking up to what a creep Thommy Rolaids Tillis truly is. Fresh off

Senator For Sale

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022 by Brant Clifton

People joke about elected officials being motivated solely by cash. But I had never seen such an open, blatant, in-your-face example of that until Thom Tillis showed up on

Tillis trying to get Robinson out of 2024 NCGOV race?

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Brant Clifton

That’s the word coming over the transom. I picked up this nugget from someone with knowledge of the internal workings of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s (R) political operation. My

Senators (Not Tillis or Burr) warn DOJ against political attacks on pediatric sex-change critics

Posted on October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 by Brant Clifton

A group of US senators is taking a stand in this era of authoritarian government and blatant attacks on The First Amendment: Senate Republicans are warning Attorney General Merrick Garland

#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

Tillis endorses DC power-grab

Posted on October 4, 2022October 4, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Never let a good crisis go to waste. That’s a quote attributed to Obama’s once-chief of staff. Leftists have been following that rule for a long time. Hitler used The

Ted loves Thom

Posted on September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 by Brant Clifton

Well, who doesn’t? The trailer-park, weed-eater haircut. The trashing and betrayal (and primarying ) of conservatives. The flexible, ever-shifting moral code. And let’s not forget all of Thom’s crossing-the

Now, Thom LOVES Cal.

Posted on August 20, 2022 by Brant Clifton

It seems like JUST YESTERDAY that the Thom Tillis reelection campaign was telling us Cal Cunningham was too liberal and too skeezy to send to Washington. It appears