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Stan, Once upon a time, a wise human said regarding "big tents:"
'Never let a camel get his nose under the tent."

Some folks never learn a lesson! And so, History does repeat itself.

Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 11:38 am By: Washingtonian

The Democratic Socialist party, which by my political recollection began in 2007, has finally, and now completely given themselves over to the Non Patriot Left, and this Leftist bend in their road will either kill their pathetic political party, or destroy this Representative Republic completely. It may well be a zero sum game here.

Is the Republican Party the answer? No ... Not yet ... Certainly NOT if the GOP tries to become the "party of the Big Tent," that special place where clear thinking decision making, and the common sense of real patriotism will go to die.

Commented: Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 @ 10:38 am By: Stan Deatherage

Here's the link for the funding for the smart meter (AMI) project, page 95
cms8.revize.com

Commented: Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 @ 10:57 pm By: PK

Has the money been spent? Was that part of the big tax increase? Can it be stopped? PK, you are right that citizens should be able to just say NO to these things. Will one of our new council members please bring the issue up?

Commented: Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 @ 8:29 pm By: John Steed

Washingtonian: County Commissioners have very little leverage to affect the governing of cities, other than cut off the money, where county taxpayers might subsidize certain programs that The City might offer.

This I have voted to do in the last number of years, when I noticed that the corruption within the City of Washington government was far too pervasive.

Commented: Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 @ 3:56 pm By: Stan Deatherage

So what's new RH? The elected people betrayed the citizens a very long time ago. They wont even respond to emails. To them, we are just bothersome humans interrupting their devinity. The Dept heads runs this town, as we saw recently when the police dept got the city manager fired with one single public comment. "The city is not safe."
Have you ever made a serious call to a dispatcher? I find them mean. They think they are judge and jury, making legal decisions about your call on the spot, as if they are protecting the police from actually having to respond to a citizen. WHY? I've seen it many times over the years. Behavior like this comes from a bad culture within.
On another note, what responsibility does the County Commissioners have to protect the citizens of a town within? Everyone passes the buck. We become like rats in an unsolvable maze.

Commented: Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 @ 11:58 am By: Washingtonian

Former Democrat President Jimmy Carter headed a federal commission to study election integrity. His report at the end of the study identified mail-in voting as the most prone to fraud. Since then, Republicans, who do not like election fraud, have tried to crack down on and reduce mail-in voting, while Democrats who seem just fine with election fraud, have tried to wildly expand election fraud. The big challenge now to protect our elections is to be sure we followed President Carter's advice.

Then there is the loosey-goosey voter registration rules that allow foreign citizens, fake voters, duplicate registrations, etc. Some years we had the ACORN leftwing organization doing massive fraudulent registration all over the country. New Jersey just got exposed for registered thousands of foreign citizens through its DOT. California had a woman register her dog to vote and then voted for the dog, and a Pakistan man who had never even been in America was found to be registered to vote in California and actually voting by mail there.

Commented: Monday, August 24th, 2026 @ 8:22 pm By: Conservative Voter

This doesn't sound either good or fair for consumers. No one should be forced to get one if they already have working electric and water meters. Any customer who has working meters and wants one of these new ones should have to pay for the meter and installation, not have the cost shoved onto other customers who don't want them.

Commented: Monday, August 24th, 2026 @ 5:01 pm By: Bubba

Biden is hardly the only Democrat to pander to minorities in making judicial appointments. NC Governor Josh Stein is another liberal Democrat who does that. Look at Stein's two appointments this year in our own judicial district. One was a black female and the other a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

Biden's judges (or those appointed by whoever had control of the autopen) have been awful for America, just like Obama's judges.

Commented: Monday, August 24th, 2026 @ 4:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

In the last 3 presidential election cycles the republican won twice, the democrat one once. In fact, if you look at the recent history of presidential elections it's a pretty even split.
Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden Trump.

The notion of institutional cheating just doesn't hold water.

Considering the current president has the emotional intelligence of a 12-year-old and has only been told "no" once in his life (2020); might that have something to do with so called election fraud?

Commented: Monday, August 24th, 2026 @ 2:55 pm By: big Bob

Watch out on the School Board. Carolyn Walker, the most strident liberal on the board worked openly against conservatives Charles Hickman and Steven Rader in this year's primary and behind the scenes against conservative Donald Shreve. Now she has her sights set on 2028.

Walker's target is to replace conservative Stacy Davis with another warmed over Democrat. Longtime liberal Democrat former board member Mack Hodges has or will switch to "Republican" to try to pull the wool over voters eyes in typical Walker style.

The question was asked if curriculum was what motivated Walker, and that probably has something to do with it, but it is broader. She wants to be a loyal functionary of the Raleigh liberal education network. She also wants to be the "Queen bee" of the school board and looks for candidates she can manipulate. Hodes was little more than a seat warmer and is perfect for her purposes.

Commented: Monday, August 24th, 2026 @ 2:16 pm By: Rino Hunter

The polls show that a significant majority of Americans are concerned about fraud in out election system. Democrat politicians resist any effort ot fix it. So do corrupt Biden and Obama partisan judges. I think President Trump will attempt some meaningful measures to try to fix the problem but Democrats will scream bloody murder over it.

Commented: Monday, August 24th, 2026 @ 1:41 pm By: John Steed