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This dude will make more than a US Senator ($178K) and almost as much as the NC Governor ($203K). Is a county manager in little ole Beaufort County worth that much??

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2026 @ 5:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tim Corley was hired to be the new county manager of Beaufort County. The commissioners voted 4 to 3 to hire Corley, a former deputy county manager in neighboring Pitt County.
Corley starts June 1, 2026.
The three commissioners that voted against Corley were Hood Richardson, Stan Deatherage and Ed Booth.
The opposing commissioners had no issues with the new hire’s qualifications but had an issue with Corley’s insistence he would remain living in Pitt County and not move to Beaufort County.
Corley said his travel time to his job was probably closer than the commissioners who had an issue with his living arrangement.
Booth questioned Corley’s investment in Beaufort County. Referencing it may be as little as occasionally buying his lunch in the county.
Corley also said he operates other businesses he was goin to hang on to because of the income it brings in and he wasn’t going to give up the lifestyle the money helped provide.

Copied from Facebook post, I will continue in post 2.

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2026 @ 1:48 pm By: Washingtonian

Why Stan? Because the world is full of angry people. From the left to the right, NO ONE SEES US! We are just bank accts to the users/takers.

Angry people need someone to blame, and some to hate. Its happening even right here in Washington. Bad Govts lead to more anger.
Here in Washington, if they are not corrupt, then they are incompetent. Both lead down the same path.

By the way, Chairman Waters, u say u dont want to lock up a one-time drug dealer. Just think this, if u had locked him up, then I say his younger brother would not have picked up the same criminal life. Think MORE about the innocent in all of this!! Dont let your compassion for a drug dealer, open the door to causing another good kid to go bad.

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2026 @ 10:15 am By: Washingtonian

Drug dealers should get the death penalty, because they r murderers of our children, whole families, whole neighborhoods,& all hope. Some liberals try to argue that it is a victimless crime. They argue tht th drug user chooses to buy drugs of hs own accord. Well let me tell u Commissioners, th drug dealers operate just like advertisers on TV. They PUSH their product on the mentally damaged users. Yep, they dont wait for the user to call for th drug, they will actually market to th user. They call & say to th addict using their best salesman's voice: Hey man I've got some Good stuff! You'll like it, its GOOD! I'll even give u a taste 4 free because I'm yur friend. Call me b4 its all gone. Or, they will act to get an naive person addicted by givin them free hits until he's fully addicted. So its in this way that it is NOT a victimless crime. That's why they call them drug-pusher. Wake up Chairman Waters! We all know that regardless, th accused always seem to get a plea deal, as Hood sd.

Commented: Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 @ 1:58 pm By: Washingtonian

Taxpayers need to show up at both the city and county hearings on the budget / taxes. On the city council, we have two who promised us, and they need to be held to their promises. Did Brabo ever make a promise? On the county commission, we have three who vote for the taxpayers and four who have nothing but contempt for taxpayers - Rliberal RINOs andy Walker and Frankie Waters, and the two Democrats

What was done to take Nick Fritz off the board should shock the community to turn deciseviely against those responsible..

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 @ 1:55 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Washingtonian, The thug-ocracy around Sadler and Tyre has made this town a pint-sized banana republic. Their goon squad sent to intimidate the customers and employees of Fritz' restaurant and then to go to Fritz' home in Smallwood to threaten his family was reprehensible. Their campaign on the internet to intimidate Joe Davis is reprehensible. It is still unclear what their approach to Perrault may be. They are trying to marginalize Brabo.

Citizens need to rally around the elected officials not subservient to Sadler and Tyre. We need an end to this era of dirty local politics.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 @ 7:11 am By: The Shadow

We need a good Senate and House cleaning.

Commented: Sunday, May 17th, 2026 @ 7:13 pm By: Buzz Cayton

The Sadler clique seems to be going after those who won the 2025 city election. What they did to Nick Fritz is appalling. They are also clearly targeting Joe Davis in a different way. One wonders what cards they have played with Perrault to get him to participate in the attacks on Joe Davis? Brabo, Davis, and Parrault are all on the target list of this power mad group, and if they are smart they will all comprehend that they need to hang together so that they will not hang separately. The first part of that is for Perrault to recognize that he needs to get off of Tyre's bandwagon. They want to end his political career as much as they do those of Fritz, Davis, and Brabo.

Commented: Sunday, May 17th, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By: Conservative Voter

Someone posted that the pressure on Nick Fritz was a possible boycott of his business, It was worse, a lot worse. It reflects the thug-ocracy Washington lived under until last December and that wants to come back to power in the worst way.

What happened at Fritz' restaurant was that some thugs showed up to harass customers. They were big burly guys of the same ethnicity as Sadler and Tyre. At first they just hung out in front of the restaurant intimidating customers. Then they started coming inside, raising a ruckus, and harassing his employees as well as customers.

What could Fritz do? If he took any action, they would undoubtedly scream "racism". Anything he did would hurt his business. Then, it got worse, the same thugs started threatening his family. No elected official signs up for that kind of treatment.

The head thug now seems to have left town, probably using his intimidation tactics on someone else. Washington has lost one of its best council members in some time.

Commented: Saturday, May 16th, 2026 @ 8:04 am By: The Shadow

One thing that many Conservatives have forgotten:

Pat McCrory was declared winner of the 2016 Governor's race UNTIL Cooper contested the election results due to votes "mysteriously found" in Durham County. The polls even shut down for several hours during that election, everybody knew they were "stealing" it when it happened.

This has nothing to do with HB2 but it did, the insurance companies. McCrory was the roadblock preventing the monuments from being pillaged for insurance purposes. Cooper, of course, knew this.

McCrory also wouldn't have gone along with the whole COVID narrative. Cooper also knew this too; McCrory costed him more money than he made him.

In an alternate timeline, folks would have raised hell about Cooper throwing the election and asked hard questions. The outcome would have been completely different.

Commented: Saturday, May 16th, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By: John Valley

Ken Paxton is a great conservative. He has been an outstanding Attorney General and will make a great US Senator. John Cornyn needs to go.

Commented: Saturday, May 16th, 2026 @ 11:32 am By: Rino Hunter

The worst thing was Roy Cooper actually marching with the BLM insurrectionists and giving them a green light to vandalize historic monuments on Capitol Square.

Commented: Friday, May 15th, 2026 @ 8:00 pm By: John Steed