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Governor Roy Cooper has ordered all United States and North Carolina flags at state buildings, facilities and grounds to be lowered to half-staff immediately through sunset on Tuesday, October 29, in honor of former US Senator Kay Hagan.
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2019 @ 7:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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House speaker Thom Tillis has come out of hiding, thrown on his Big Boy Pants, and hand-delivered a personal response to the state Board of Elections regarding allegations made by a former legislator.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 4:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Why release hypothetical November matchup results when filing hasn't started and we still have a May primary election?
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2014 @ 11:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've already raised questions about Speaker Thom, his movie contributions, the beer distributor bucks, and his ties to a certain well-connected Massachusetts law firm.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 7:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Well, being the southern gentlemen we are here, we thought we'd take a moment to help out our state's junior US senator in this area.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 11:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Elections have consequences. In 1980, we put out Jimmy Carter, elected Ronald Reagan, and got tax cuts and unprecedented economic growth.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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State House Speaker - and US Senate candidate - Thom Tillis has been quite talkative lately via email. He's tackled taxes and immigration, and has now moved on to the topic of Richard Morgan & Jim Black.
Published: Sunday, December 15th, 2013 @ 9:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Until now, it's been easy to draw comparisons between the 2014 US Senate GOP primary in North Carolina and the 2010 Kentucky GOP Senate primary, featuring a doctor - and political novice - and a seasoned, well-funded state government official.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 12:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Lefties have been giving me grief for personifying our junior US senator as a sock with ping-pong ball eyes and string for hair.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2013 @ 12:34 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's a far cry from those heady days in 2008 and 2009 when a certain former state senator from Greensboro aspiring to be a US senator was telling us that we were going to eat every bit of our ObamaCare, and we were going to like it.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina's junior senator Kay Hagan, up for reelection in 2014, supports a two-month delay in the enrollment deadline. So do several other Democrats running for election or reelection to the U.S. Senate next year. Their colleague, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, supports a yearlong...
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2013 @ 7:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Strange behavior can always be found in politicians, you just got to know where to look.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 12:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) announced his endorsement of Dr. Greg Brannon for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 2:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Polling shows two-thirds to three-quarters of North Carolinians expressing serious dissatisfaction with ObamaCare.
Published: Thursday, August 1st, 2013 @ 2:08 am
By: Brant Clifton
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New York Times blogger Nate Silver has been pretty doggone prescient in recent years with his election prognostications. He has an interesting observation regarding the 2014 battle for control of the US Senate
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2013 @ 5:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is looking more and more like Charlotte pastor Mark Harris is about to join Cary physician Greg Brannon and state House Speaker Thom Tillis in the May 2014 GOP primary to pick an opponent for incumbent US Senator Kay Hagan (D).
Published: Friday, June 28th, 2013 @ 11:25 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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NCGOP activists have poured into Charlotte this weekend for their state convention. They'll hear from some of the US Senate hopefuls looking to replace Kay Hagan.
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 10:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Some Wilmington-area activists with Heritage Action were ringleaders in the effort to hijack US Senator Kay Hagan's Twitter town hall.
Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2013 @ 6:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I was always under the impression that people elect you to the Senate so that you can give voice to THEIR concerns in Washington. Kay Hagan got elected from North Carolina, but she's put together a voting record that would earn her senator-for-life status in Massachusetts.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2013 @ 10:58 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's one of the worst kept secrets in North Carolina that state House speaker Thom Tillis aspires to replace Kay Hagan in the United States Senate.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A new poll by the Civitas Institute examined North Carolina voters' views of state and national leaders.
Published: Friday, April 5th, 2013 @ 9:15 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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