Tag: US Senate

#NCSEN: ObamaCare is BAD because — um, (WHA…????)

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Uncle Karl and American Crossroads GPS have gone to bat for Speaker Thom again. They’re plastering the state’s airwaves with an ad blasting Kay Hagan’s support of ObamaCare. The ad

#NCSEN: Pulling out the race card

Posted on June 17, 2014June 17, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve had that rotund, jheri-curled oaf Bill Barber out there for months hollering about the white Republicans on Jones Street. Kay Hagan took Cory Booker — the New Jersey Democrat

#NCSEN: A Klingon tries to make it a Five-some

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve been hearing about efforts to get former state legislator John Rhodes qualified as a write-in candidate. Now, it appears a Klingon-speaking former town councilman from Indian Trail is trying

#NCSEN: Conservative write-in effort kicks into gear

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Brant Clifton

If all goes as one group of activists hopes, North Carolinians will have a FOURTH choice for US Senate this November. Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean

#NCSEN: Let’s play The Blame Game. The pizza man, the baby doc, or the web site?

Posted on June 8, 2014June 8, 2014 by Brant Clifton

During the recently completed primary, we were told that Thom Tillis is on cruise-control to Capitol Hill. Kay Hagan needs to start packing. Miss Susan can start measuring for drapes.

#NCSEN: On the road with Thom & Kay, Harry Reid & those dadgum Koch Brothers

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Brant Clifton

GOP US Senate nominee Thom Tillis is in our neck of the woods early next week for a fundraiser at Pinehurst’s National Golf Club. The visit hits right in the

#NCSEN: ”Did I say ‘unelectable’? I meant UN-Baptist.”

Posted on June 1, 2014June 1, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I wanted to be wrong about Mark Harris. My first thought — when the Charlotte pastor filed for US Senate — was that he was a plant, a stalking horse,

Some food for thought on independent campaigns, write-ins, and forming new parties

Posted on May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 by Brant Clifton

There is still a lot of grumbling out there among conservatives in the wake of the recently completed primaries. An effort is alive to stage a conservative write-in effort for

#NCSEN: A conservative write-in campaign?

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In 2006, Thom Tillis ousted fellow Republican and incumbent John Rhodes in a nasty primary fight for a Mecklenburg County state House seat. In 2014, Rhodes COULD end up making

#NCSEN: A sock puppet fight over climate change

Posted on May 28, 2014May 28, 2014 by Brant Clifton

US Senator Kay Hagan (D- NC NY) — affectionately known in many of these parts as Chuck Schumer’s Sock Puppet™– lashed out at GOP nominee Thom Tillis — recently promoted to