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These are curious contradictions between the two Beaufort County School incidents.

They completely circled the wagons with the WHS situation. This incident was criminal and had damage to property.

The bus incident was a parent getting her child's property returned. The Superintendent (Cheeseman) couldn't wait to get his narrative to the press on the bus situation. Anyone with a functioning brain knows this was a purposeful hit on a board member the Superintendent saw as a threat to his agenda. The plot thickened even more when Garris and Kidwell attacked a fellow Republican officeholder in the press and even alluded to having the weight of the Republican Party behind them. They did not. It makes me wonder what deals were made between at least the three of them.

Commented: Sunday, July 26th, 2026 @ 12:46 pm By: Van Zant

Rogue Biden and Obama judges should be VERY severely disciplined over things like this, either by the Supreme Court or by Congress. There should be a mechanism to remove them from office as they create a stain on the integrity of our judicial system and lead the public to distrust it.

Commented: Sunday, July 26th, 2026 @ 8:32 am By: borderhawk

Big corporations, Befuddled???? Protecting a big corporation was what Darrin Armstrong's entire campaign was about. A big out-of-state corporation that makes Round Up. He wanted to protect them from "we the people" who were injured by that big corporation's product. Armstrong and his allies put out postcard after postcard accusing Kidwell of being a "sell out" for supporting the rights of "we the people" to compensation for injuries from that big corporation's product.

And it gets worse. Darrin Armstrong's agriculture business has major contracts with the very same out of state big corporation that makes Round Up. Can you spell C-O-N-F-L-I-C-T O-F I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T?

You also need to look at where the big money from the big corporations was in that race. They put hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising to buy the seat for Armstrong. Look at Kidwell's contributor list. There is not big corporation money there, only money from "we the people." And unlike Armstrong, Kidwell did not have a big outside campaign backing him. His only outside spending came from the gun rights organization Grassroots North Carolina, and that was only one mailing.

We are struck with our "one trick pony" and Big Ag puppet, the Round-Up RINO for two years. But we have to do better next time. We need to find a conservative to run. It probably won't be Kidwell, but we really do need to find a solid REAL conservative to run for our seat. The Round-Up RINO got an "F" from the NRA so we need to send him packing as qucikly as possible.

Are you for gun control, Befuddled?

Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2026 @ 9:18 am By: Rino Hunter