It's been the conventional wisdom that State House Speaker Thom Tillis was national Republicans' odds-on favorite to take on incumbent Democrat US Senator Kay Hagan in November 2014.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 10:08 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Stephen Laroque has really taken us on a roller coaster ride during his time in Raleigh.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The executive committee of the Craven County Republican Party has unanimously voted to issue a letter of censure against state House Speaker Thom Tillis.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2013 @ 10:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Big Barry in DC and Speaker Thom are getting a real taste of what Tricky Dick Nixon went through in 1974. * It sure blows when people start raising a stink about your heavy-handed iron-fisted management style.*
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 11:34 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Think back to 2006 with me. We had a conservative firebrand GOP legislator, representing a district near Charlotte, who was making headlines by criticizing the leadership of the state House (at the time, Democrat Jim Black and "Republican" Richard Morgan).
Published: Saturday, May 11th, 2013 @ 9:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Josh Stein (D-Wake) and the Crayon Corps at McClatchy-Raleigh are really, really peeved at Sen. Bill Rabon (R-Brunswick.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 4:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In the run-up to the 2010 elections, we heard a lot of sob stories from NCGA Republicans about how heavy-handed and unfair the Democrats were to them when they ran the legislature.
Published: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The dictation pool in the McClatchy newsroom has regurgitated a press release talking about a new "House Republican group".
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 1:56 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I am sure many of you have been keeping up with the whole BlueprintNC scandal -- a bunch of lefty non-profits scheming about "eviscerating" North Carolina Republican leaders.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 @ 10:59 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Some disturbing reports are coming over the transom about the former NC state House majority leader recently banished to purgatory (a/k/a the post of speaker pro tem).
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 @ 8:51 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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State House Republicans are meeting today to decide who will lead them through the next legislative session in Raleigh. A lot of the current leadership is running again, while a few challengers have jumped in.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 1:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The economy is in shambles. We are still coping with record unemployment.
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 8:14 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I heard through the grapevine that John Hood thinks I don't like him very much. (For the record, all I know of him is what I read in his columns and what I hear him saying on NC Spin.)
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Now that their fearless leader has been reduced to political impotence and irrelevance, the group of General Assembly Republicans who sided with Richard Morgan to form an alliance with Jim Black is slowly but surely ditching their digs on Jones Street.
Published: Saturday, September 1st, 2012 @ 11:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The stenography pool in The N&O newsroom trumpeted recently an announcement of an ethics reform package by Democrat gubernatorial candidate Walter Dalton. Apparently, Dalton wants to clean up the legislature -- where he has been serving since 1996.
Published: Friday, August 31st, 2012 @ 12:16 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Rep. Harold Brubaker, the first and only Republican House speaker of the 20th century and most recently the chamber's senior budget-writer, announced Thursday he's retiring from the Legislature.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 2:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The run off election from the State primary is now in progress. There are only a hand full of candidates from both the Republican and Democrat tickets.
Published: Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 @ 11:59 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The battle to bring honor to the political parties will never end. That is because of human nature.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 2:34 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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For those of you who think your vote doesn't count, tell that to Chief Justice John Roberts. He has thrown the Obamacare ball back into the voters court.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 11:16 am
By: Ken Lang
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This primary runoff begins and unless you have been living under a rock, you must know the significance in these runoff elections, especially in eastern North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2012 @ 1:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There are eight candidates running for the four positions in state offices (on the ballot in Carteret County). The Crystal Coast Tea Party Patriots invited seven of these candidates to speak at one of our meetings. We wanted to get to know them better and to ask questions about where each stands.
Published: Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 @ 3:25 pm
By: Fred Decker
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Ever wonder what happens when leopards change their spots? The answer is "NOTHING" because leopards do not change their spots.
Published: Friday, June 15th, 2012 @ 2:04 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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On July 17, 2012, North Carolina will have run-off elections (officially the 2nd Primary) for a number of State offices in which neither candidate received in excess of 40% of the vote.
Published: Friday, June 8th, 2012 @ 2:05 pm
By: Ken Lang
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The epicenter of the fight between the conservative grassroots and the Raleigh establishment is in The Outer Banks' House District 6.
Published: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 @ 5:19 pm
By: Claudia Rodgers
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After North Carolina's primary elections May 8, it still is unclear who the Republican nominees for five powerful executive offices will be.
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 12:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's the last week before North Carolina's first primary. I've put it off long enough, but now I have no real alternative but to issue some fearless predictions.
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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