On Saturday, the NCGOPe tossed out the party's first black chairman and replaced him with a, um, "intellectually-challenged" white man who documentary evidence clearly demonstrates was clearly outperformed by said ousted black man.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 @ 8:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In an email to the North Carolina Republican Party's Central Committee earlier today, Todd Poole announced his resignation as the Party's executive director, effective August 31.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2015 @ 11:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Sen. Bob Rucho is still hoping North Carolina can have its presidential preference primary just days after South Carolina, giving the state a bigger say in determining the eventual 2016 nominees.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's presidential preference primary would be held March 8, 2016, under House Bill 457, filed by Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, in a move intended to prevent the state from losing delegates in the presidential nominating process.
Published: Saturday, April 4th, 2015 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just when you thought things couldn't get any dumber than having that dude dress up like a duck during the recent US Senate race, the lads at NCGOP HruchoQ one-up themselves
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Sources tell me that members of the NCGOP Executive Committee were informed via email this morning that current state party chairman Claude Pope will not be seeking another term in office.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Kay Hagan's husband and son created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using $250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company to install solar panels at a building he owns.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The media hysteria over the budget debate on Jones Street is reaching a crescendo.
Published: Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 @ 4:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In this case, we hate being right. Some time back, we posted about efforts in the NCGOP platform drafting committee to remove a lot of the issues important to Tea Party activists.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 12:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Matt Arnold admits there is very little difference between his political views and those held by incumbent Sen. Robert Rucho. But that did not stop him from challenging the seven-term veteran lawmaker in the upcoming Republican primary for state Senate District 39 on May 6.
Published: Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 @ 1:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A leading Republican state senator issued an apology Tuesday for his remarks skewering Gov. Pat McCrory, first lady Ann McCrory and lawmakers in a private meeting about legislation to regulate puppy mills.
Published: Monday, February 3rd, 2014 @ 8:44 am
By: Brant Clifton
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State GOP vice-chairman Joyce Krawiec's appointment to an unexpired state Senate seat from Forsythe County has created a job vacancy within the party hierarchy.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2014 @ 2:19 am
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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The North Carolina Republican Party is inarguably bent on proving it is inconsequential to real Conservatives, who actually believe in the tenets of the former Republican Party, and live by Conservative principles.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2014 @ 1:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Media reports of President Obama's Wednesday visit to the Triangle highlighted the absence of Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, whose support of the Affordable Care Act has led political analysts to conclude she's at risk in her first re-election campaign. But the other two Democrats in the state's...
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2014 @ 4:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We're in the middle of the primary election season. These times are all about internal debates / discussions between party members as they chart the direction of and craft an agenda for their parties.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 12:35 am
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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There is no small irony that Republicans want to investigate left-leaning groups, because for years it was the other way around.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: Tom Campbell
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There's a revolution coming in this country. A growing majority of ordinary people (i.e., not the political elite) are simply fed up with government the way it has been operating the last few years, by both political parties.
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 1:31 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The turmoil within the Craven County Republican Party is a symbolic, localized representation of the nationwide struggle between limited-government forces and statist establishment types for the soul of the GOP.
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Last Thursday, July 18, 2013, a rather large delegation of Beaufort County's very best Republicans sojourned to Raleigh to the NC GOP headquarters to meet with recently elected chairman Claude Pope about egregious improprieties foisted upon the local party by the state party.
Published: Friday, August 16th, 2013 @ 10:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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Do we, as the Tea Party, need the GOP or it is the GOP that needs us?
Published: Saturday, August 10th, 2013 @ 5:50 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Today North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope issued a public statement in response to the Republican National Committee’s letter to NBC and CNN regarding their decision to announce films celebrating the life of Hillary Clinton.
Published: Thursday, August 8th, 2013 @ 12:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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While I am hardly a political animal - don't really have the time for it - I have, over the years, been rather astute in recognizing the obvious, especially the dubious moves of politicians. I see this odd behavior often from Democrats, and sadly, I now see it from some Republicans as well.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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You may recall our previous coverage of efforts by Craven County Republicans to censure state House Speaker Thom Tillis. What is behind all of this?
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 6:29 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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Well, it looks like the NCGOP will be led for the next two years by by Chairman Claude Pope of Brunswick County (formerly of Wake) and Vice-chairman Joyce Krawiec of Winston-Salem.
Published: Sunday, June 9th, 2013 @ 7:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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