he drive-bys are working hard to gin up some interest in tonight's US Senate debate. They are trying to sell us on the possibility that this televised event tonight could change the course of the race.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 9:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Sources are telling us that emissaries from the DC Republican establishment had a sit-down with NC Tea Party activists in The Queen City Tuesday evening.
Published: Saturday, August 30th, 2014 @ 5:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Post says Republicans will take the US Senate, but we - in North Carolina - can likely expect SIX MORE YEARS of Kay Hagan.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Yep. That's the way veteran political analyst Dan Balz characterizes the 2014 tussle between incumbent Democrat Kay Hagan, Republican Thom Tillis, and Libertarian Sean Haugh.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Every once in a while we’re blessed with a lone voice of common sense, out in the wilderness, trying to inject some common sense into the nonsense that is the Raleigh political circus.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV shows in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 12:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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.
Published: Thursday, June 12th, 2014 @ 3:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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During her 2008 U.S. Senate campaign, Kay Hagan promised North Carolinians she would be a "moderate" and "independent" voice in Washington.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 8:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When you think of "chamber of commerce," Bob the insurance guy who lives down the street from you probably comes to mind. The US Chamber of Commerce is a whole different ball of wax.
Published: Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 @ 1:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It's always charming when two geriatric liberals attend the same event and come away with two very different accounts.
Published: Sunday, April 27th, 2014 @ 5:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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GOP Senate candidate Dr. Greg Brannon handily won the straw poll among delegates and alternates attending the First Congressional District Republican convention held Saturday.
Published: Sunday, April 20th, 2014 @ 10:23 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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A committee is quietly working away on a draft of the North Carolina Republican Party's 2014 platform.
Published: Sunday, April 13th, 2014 @ 11:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've been told by Pat McCrory, Karl Rove, National Right to Life, and countless members of the drive-by media that Thom Tillis is the most-electable candidate to take on Kay Hagan in November. The problem? THE POLLS.
Published: Friday, April 11th, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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US Senator – and chief fundraiser and cheerleader for Thom Tillis — Richard Burr says there’s not much hope for stopping BarryO’s agenda and that we can forget changing ObamaCare AT ALL until after 2016.
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 8:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If North Carolina voters send Thom Tillis to Washington, they could find themselves in the same boat as Charlotte voters who recently elected Patrick Cannon as their mayor.
Published: Saturday, March 29th, 2014 @ 8:02 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We've done some extensive reporting on the speaker's activities on Jones Street. Greg Brannon – one of speaker Thom's opponents in the US Senate primary campaign has raised ethical questions about the state House's top man.
Published: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 @ 6:21 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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Thom Tillis, conservative candidate for United States Senate and North Carolina House Speaker, today released his campaign's second television commercial.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 4:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina state House speaker, and US Senate candidate, Thom Tillis has picked up the endorsement of the DC-based Business & Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC).
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2010, we rose up en masse in protest against ObamaCare. We gave the US House to the Republicans, and closed the GOP's deficit with the Democrats in the Senate.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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t is hard to imagine any candidate for US Senate surviving the May Republican Primary who could be a worse choice for America than our current US Senator, Obama-supporting Democrat Kay Hagan.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 4:31 pm
By: Mattie Lawson
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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The mainstream media and the political establishment are trying to tell us that state House speaker Thom Tillis is all but nominated to take on Kay Hagan in November. Public Policy Polling has been tracking the race.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 10:53 pm
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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John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and the rest of the House GOP leadership have pretty much stomped out the last vestiges of the GOP's claim to being the party of smaller government.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 8:56 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Cary physician Greg Brannon, Tea Party favorite and one of the leading contenders for the GOP nomination for US Senate, told a Moore County audience last night about one of his pet peeves.
Published: Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 @ 8:03 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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While political analysts are trying to understand how the most recent municipal elections reflect the current climate and impact outcomes in the 2014 elections, there are two obvious conclusions of statewide note.
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 11:45 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Mark Harris is closely associated with the state constitutional amendment passed in May 2012 defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2013 @ 6:38 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Beaufort Patriot TEA Party has endorsed Greg Brannon for the U. S. Senate in 2014.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 6:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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First, it was Thom Tillis who told us he could represent the people of his legislative district, serve as speaker of the House, AND run for the US Senate all without any problem - ethical or otherwise.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2013 @ 11:09 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Boy, this establishment crowd is starting to make us look quite prescient.
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 @ 12:05 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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