I am hearing from quite a few folks who heard from Pat McCrory on their home telephones Sunday evening.
Published: Saturday, May 10th, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Early voting is underway. We've got a GOP leadership in Washington looking to sell us out on amnesty and ObamaCare.
Published: Monday, April 28th, 2014 @ 1:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Early voting gets started this week. We've got some primaries out there. We also have a lot of folks out there who are unopposed for renomination.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 10:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Three Republican candidates are battling for their party's nomination to succeed Democrat Mike McIntyre as North Carolina's 7th District Congressman. McIntyre, who held the job for nine two-year terms, chose not to seek re-election this year. He won his race two years ago by just...
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though he lacks the blessing of the GOP leadership in Congress, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is pushing a national health care reform he says would do precisely what the GOP establishment has pushed — repealing and replacing government-driven Obamacare with a system allowing more...
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 2:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've come to realize there is A LOT of "theatre" in politics. Both sides holler about the other doing the little people wrong. Both sides claim to have the best interests of the people at heart - to be good stewards of their money.
Published: Friday, March 14th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The NC House speaker's fan club is beside itself over the Tillis for Senate campaign's $1 million ad buy.
Published: Tuesday, March 11th, 2014 @ 6:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2010, Utah’s Mike Lee made his first bid for elected office — waging an underdog campaign taking on a well-funded, well-known GOP establishment figure in the state’s US Senate race.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 1:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Establishment folks are browbeating those of us in the grassroots to toe the party line. Send Kay Hagan home. That's what's important. Even if you have to hold your nose to do it.
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 @ 7:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A reader forwarded to us an email conversation they had with NCGOP chairman Claude Pope. (Of course, we came up.)
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 1:22 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Carter Wrenn - Richard Morgan's pre-weight loss doppelganger - has surfaced like Captain Ahab's white whale to do a wee bit of the GOP establishment's dirty work in a post on his low-traffic, lightly-read web site
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 7:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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McCrory previewed his legislative agenda in a speech at the Hunt Institute's Holshouserhmc Legislators Retreat on Monday night, though he did not provide specific policy plans.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 11:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We posted here about an NCGOP establishment vs. grassroots spat in Haywood County. There have been previous issues in Beaufort, Craven, Davidson and Gates counties.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2014 @ 5:27 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Beaufort County has become quite the microcosm for the civil war between the GOP establishment and The Tea Party. We've written extensively about some of the controversies there previously on this site.
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We took a look at Thom Tillis’s money in a previous post. Now, let’s look at the financial doings of Charlotte pastor-turned-candidate Mark Harris.
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 @ 7:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One of the Tar Heel State’s smallest counties is speaking pretty loudly this week. Gates County is on the border with Virginia in the northeastern quadrant of the state. It’s county GOP organization has jumped head-first into the GOP primary for the US Senate.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Jason Thigpen is ripping a page from former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s political playbook in his race against Walter Jones in North Carolina’s Third Congressional District.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2013 @ 12:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, it looks like the mainstream media (MSM) has finally noticed the hubbub within the Craven County GOP.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 @ 1:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, it appears Walter Jones is picking up another primary opponent.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 @ 9:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The GOP establishment has been rolling its collective eyes dismissively at those of us fighting tooth and nail to stop ObamaCare. Now, they're ready to help Big Barry jack up the federal debt even further.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2013 @ 6:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It appears that Raleigh-based radio talk show host Frank Roche will be jumping into the 2014 Second Congressional District GOP primary. The district is currently represented by Republican Renee Ellmers of Dunn.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 2:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Word is out on the street that Charlotte area pastor - and Southern Baptist Convention player - Mark Harris will formally announce his campaign for US Senate on October 2.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 8:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Hyde Amendment has been a valuable tool in the fight against government-funding of abortion.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The mainstream media tells us that Gov. Pat McCrory has 38 bills sitting on his desk waiting for signatures or vetoes.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2013 @ 5:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Claude Pope, Chairman of the N. C. Republican Party, embarrassed himself and the Republican Party last week in a press release in which he called for the termination of host D. G. Martin from WUNC-TV.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2013 @ 4:33 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Regular readers of this site know we tend to be highly critical of congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC-2). Miss Renee tends to give us plenty of ammo every time she gets in front of a representative of the mainstream media - like HERE.
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We just went through a bit of drama getting a state budget agreement that increased spending and cut taxes. Now, word comes that Gov. McCrory's commerce secretary wants a new tax
Published: Sunday, August 4th, 2013 @ 11:03 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The GOP establishment is having a conniption over the audacity of Liz Cheney - daughter of the former VPOTUS - daring to challenge the renomination of a sitting GOP senator.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 11:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A LOT of my Tea Party friends from the Charlotte area are just cooing over the potential US Senate candidacy of Baptist pastor Mark Harris.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We're just rolling back in to Haymaker HQ after a long relaxing, enjoyable Independence Day weekend.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2013 @ 1:14 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat got a lot of mileage out of The Who's classic "Won't Get Fooled Again" during his successful 2012 campaign against Walter Dalton.
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 12:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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