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A western North Carolina county was the first to do this with the Ar-15s to protect schools. It is a great idea. We need to do this in Beaufort County.

Commented: Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 @ 11:26 am By: John Steed

HB 951 will cost both taxpayers and electric ratepayers dearly, and it is just disgusting that Berger and Moore abused power the way they did to impose this far left climate alarmist crap on North Carolina. Berger and Moore betrayed Republican voters and, indeed, all North Carolinians, and they need to be removed from office. Here in Beaufort County, we need a real Republican to primary special interest hack Jim Perry for the State Senate. Perry was an active player in this monstrosity, too, a real Democrat in Drag.

Commented: Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 @ 6:46 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This monstrosity of a tax bill was passed by a party line vote. EVERY Democrat has their fingerprints on it. No taxpayer should vote for ANY Democrat. They all want to up our taxes in a recession and send an army of militarized IRS auditors out to squeeze us for taxes.

Commented: Monday, August 15th, 2022 @ 3:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What I can't seem to wrap my head around is this: Why did the local GOP chairman single out 7 term commissioner Hood Richardson, and banish him from these discussions and subsequent vote, while allowing Representative Keith Kidwell to remain for these discussions as the chief advocate for sending the party's war chest out of the county to Republican candidates far, far away?

The qualifying similarities for both elected Republicans are exactly the same: Both are not voting members of the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee, but both are functioning ex-officio members of that same executive committee.

I am usually fairly adroit at figuring out all manner of problems, a big bunch of them technical in nature; however, I cannot, for the life of me, discern why one elected Republican would be allowed to promote and defend a position, while the other elected Republican, of like status, would be banished from that very room where this now challenged decision was made, absent from any discussion at that time by The Hood.

Seriously here: Can someone please help me to understand the why of it?

Commented: Monday, August 15th, 2022 @ 11:56 am By: Stan Deatherage