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American taxpayer money should not be spent on subsidizing illegal aliens in education or in anything. They are foreign students and should pay full tuition at out-of-state rates.

Even worse is that the four big spender liberals on our county commission - Randy Walker, Frankie Waters, Jerry Langley, and Ed Booth - are pouring county taxpayer money into Bernie Sanders scheme of free college tuition, so even more tax money might be going to illegal aliens, if our ultra liberal administration at BCCC is letting them into that program, which they probably are.

Conservatives need to get to the bottom of whether our tax money is being used to subsidise illegal aliens, and if so what we need to do to stop it.
Commented: Sunday, July 26th, 2026 @ 11:44 am By: Concerned Taxpayer
A parent (who just so happened to be a board member) cannot retrieve an item from her child’s bus before said item is broken without a scandalous false narrative that is pushed into the media, but an entire incident such as this, that costs funded dollars is swept under the rug?
Commented: Saturday, July 25th, 2026 @ 1:53 pm By: Stacey Davis
The audit strictly needs to come from a third party.
Commented: Saturday, July 25th, 2026 @ 1:57 pm By: Stacey Davis
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
Is the county commission providing free tuition for illegal aliens? If so, that is even worse than giving them in-state tuition rates.
Commented: Sunday, July 26th, 2026 @ 8:12 am By: borderhawk
You are exactly spot on Roadkill, he did say that to another town and word off the street is he's kicking & screaming going out & threatening with lawyers.
Hmmmm, maybe a little bit of KARMA is coming back around to bite somebody!
Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2026 @ 10:46 pm By: PK
So Rorie was hired on April Fools Day? If, as some have posted, his hiring was in closed session and no public vote taken, the joke may be on him, as that may bring his contract into question.

It seems that the Sadler boys, Tyree and Horton, headed the lynch mob, and the others joined in. One wonders what the agenda of Tyree and Horton is on this matter? It may put the city in a worse place than with Rorie. Rorie was no prize, but we may go from the frying pan into the fire.

Will Rorie get another golden parachute like the last "fired" city manager?

then there is the question of who would undertake to be acting city manager. Bobby Roberson did a great job, in spite of some council members, but given everything that has happened, it is doubtful he would consider it again.
Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2026 @ 8:10 pm By: John Steed
Piratefan: Why are long pants long? I did not say Washington had 53 flock cameras, I said there were "some". Nothing was sensationalized. One flock cameras is one too many, in my opinion.

A point keeps getting proven here: Even some Conservatives, many of whom are good people with sense about them, have too much trust in what they're "told" by their preferred party of government. They want to believe that government is good and that "stupid" doesn't exist in their realm of occupation.

It does exist and we're surrounded by it..anywhere and everywhere. Bizarroworld is very real and if you think about something, odds are, it has been and is being done...somewhere close by.

Common sense awareness is both uncommon and can be overwhelming when first utilized. Eventually, you get used to flying at 35,000 ft at cruising speed. "Stupid" doesn't exist there. It isn't tolerated.
Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2026 @ 4:48 pm By: John Valley
John Valley, according to the map of these things on the deFlock site, there are only two of them in Washington, both at Lowes. Can you tell us where you say others are located in Washington? What is of concern are the license plate readers that send data back to the databanks of the Flock company, not the common video cameras that are not designed to read and store license plate info or send it off to a mass data base.
Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2026 @ 11:08 am By: piratefan
Something brought me back to this article and I believed I shed a few tears reading it. As I sit here preparing myself to return to graduate school for this upcoming fall semester, I found myself reflecting back on what brought me here. I really wish that BCCC knew just how much they did for me during my educational journey there. I cannot thank you all enough for pushing me to persevere. This article was beautiful and I greatly appreciate it still to this day! Continue rooting me on for greatness BCCC. I’m still around and pushing to make a change. Almost to the finish line of grad school. Mental Health Counselor in the making!!
Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2026 @ 9:17 am By: Iesha Smallwood
They need to bring in someone from the private sector as city manager, not an insufferable career bureaucrat. Mayber someone with real business experience? Even a retired military officer might be better than someone who has never been anything but a local government bureaucrat.
Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2026 @ 9:24 am By: Rino Hunter
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
www.witn.com
Today: Washington-City-Manager-Fired-After-Just-Over-3-Months

WOW !
I didnt see that coming.
But then, I didnt see how he got hired in the first place. I never saw a public vote on it.
To be honest, I didnt like the smug superior way he talked to the Council members. They may have deserved some of it, but only because several of them were beginners and just learning their way. But later, it did become offensive.
I'm glad he's gone. He was one of those elitists who told the citizens...if u dont like it, take us to court.

The next move will be interesting. Maybe the Warsaw City Attorney, Kennedy Thompson who recently resigned would like the job. He sounds like a man with scruples.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 9:53 pm By: RoadKill
The Washington Daily News

"Washington City Council unanimously fires City Manager Jon Rorie following a closed session vote, ending a tenure that began with his April 1 appointment."
BREAKING NEWS: Council fires City Manager with unanimous vot...
thewashingtondailyne ws.com
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www.witn.com
WASHINGTON, N.C. (WITN) - Washington has fired its city manager after just over three months in the position.

During an hour-long closed-door session on Thursday afternoon, the Washington City Council voted unanimously to let Jonathan Rorie go from the role.

Councilmembers cited concerns over police staffing shortages and emergency communication operations.

Rorie started on April 13 and had an $185,000 salary on a two-year contract. He replaced Jonathan Russell, who resigned in November.

Rorie was most recently town manager for Spring Lake. WTVD says he was fired from that job in February by a 3-2 vote.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 7:44 pm By: Washingtonian
So your game is to come on NOW, thumb your nose and write "naney naney naney"...you lost and I won! LOL, no R.H., Kidwell lost because no matter how he voted in Raleigh, he failed WeThePeople. The people voted and didnt want to see more of him. There was a reason for that. He wasnt working for us, he was working for big corporations. By the way, I dont worship politicians, and have trouble understanding why some folks do. But I do know some people think it makes themselves important, if they can rub elbows with people having "titles." Kidwell failed YOU too. I sorry that your whole life seems to be wrapped up in HIS life. Is it possible that your future, is dependent on HIS future?
You're sure acting that way.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 7:23 pm By: Befuddled
CBS should not get any kudos on being fair with the Trump speech on election integrity. While they did air all of it, unlike the Democrat hacks at ABC, NBC, CNN, and MSNOW, CBS had one of their propagandists give a presentation immediate begore the speech giving the Democrat talking points on the issue and questioning the accuracy of what Trump was about to say, even though at that point they did not know what he was going to say.

All of our self-styled "mainstream media" are little more than partisan mouthpieces for the Democrat Party. It was blatant here where they did not even need people from the actual Democrat Party to give the Democrat response. The media did it themselves, and in many cases even without airing the President's speech itself.

New Jersey is just one example showing the president in spot on with this issue and the Democrats and their media mouthpieces are all wet.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 5:16 pm By: Conservative Voter
I did not think you could name a SINGLE issue, Befuddled, and I was right.

Conservatives need to prepare to find a conservative candidate to primary a RINO warmed over Marc Basnight Democrat who is nothing but a one trick pony for Big Ag. It is not too early to start working on that. We do not need a legislator who gets an "F" from the NRA like Armstrong did.

Supporting "we the people"???? Lets look at Armstrong's big issue that he spent most of his campaign on. That was the dispute between a major out of state chemical company that makes Round Up and the North Carolina citizens ("we the people") injured by Round Up. On that issue, Kidwell sided with "we the people" and their right to receive compensation for their injuries from Round Up. Armstrong sided with the out of state chemical company AGAINST the people, and called Kidwell a "sellout" for siding with the people. Unfortunately, Kidwell's consultant did a very poor job in explaining that issue to the voters. Kidwell himself handled it very well in the debate and demolished Armstrong, but few voters saw that debate compared to all those who got the flood of distorted postcards from the special interest PAC pushing Armstrong.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 1:07 pm By: Rino Hunter
The election is over. Kidwell lost, so stop campaigning already. Armstrong hasnt even taken office yet, and yet you think u are Nostradamus and are predicting bad service from him.
Ya'll remind me of the Democrat woman I saw on TV recently who said: I dont care if they are Nazi's at home as long as they vote the "right way." That seems to be your theory on Kidwell. These people are "Representatives," they are suppose to be helpful to any citizen that reaches out. Kidwell got too big for his britches and forgot that. So the people retired him. It's over, UNLESS you are campaigning for him to run in a different position??? Is that what the "useful idiots" are being told to do?
CAn I name where Kidwell failed? Yes, he forgot WeThePeople, while protecting Big Government against us.

Are you on the Victory Committee that Kidwell sits on here in the Beaufort County GOP?
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 11:29 am By: Befuddled
If it is that deranged tyrannical pair calling the meeting, it must be some type of monkey business.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 7:25 am By: Bubba
Let's face it, Republicans have a huge problem in the legislature with "leadership" that is in the hip pocket of special interests and addicted to "pay-to-play". While the Democrats were at least as bad in this regard when they were in control, we did not expect our own party to fall into this trap. But lousy leaders like Thom Tillis, Tim Moore, and Phil Berger picked up the Democrat playbook on pandering to the special interests, doing it to cement their own power. Now that Berger has rightfully been kicked to the curb, maybe things will get better in the Senate, but if one of Berger's cronies succeeds him, there will probably be no changes, regrettably. In the House, the new leadership seems to be at least somewhat of an improvement so far, but we will see how that develops. Moore, at first, had seemed to be an improvement over Tillis, too.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 7:53 am By: Rino Hunter
Befuddled, can you name even one issue where Kidwell was on the liberal side and Armstrong on the conservative side? I expect your silence to be deafening. Armstrong's website was devoid of issues, and he never talked about them in campaign events. He was a ONE TRICK PONY on the Big Ag agenda.

I will give you a glaring example of the difference on issues. Keith Kidwell got an A+ rating from the NRA on gun rights issues, their highest, while Armstrong got an F, their lowest rating. The NRA endorsed Kidwell, who has a long record of advancing gun rights issues in the Gerneal Assembly. It was the same with the leading state gun rights group, Grassroots North Carolian, which gave Kidwell their highest rating, and their endorsement and Armstrong their lowest rating. Armstrong featured anti-gun liberal Steve Troxler on many of his postcards and on his website as an endorser of Armstrong.

I could go an with lots of similar issues, Befuddled, but can you name even ONE that goes the other way, Befuddled? No, I did not think so.
Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 7:41 am By: Rino Hunter
Does Anyone know what this special meeting called by Tyre and Horton is about????
Commented: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026 @ 8:52 pm By: Washingtonian
I remember the ads run by that casino group that called itself "American Conservative Fund" while it attacked conservatives around the state in legislative primaries. They ran ads locally on TV claiming Keith Kidwell raised taxes. What nonsense. Kidwell was one of the biggest TAX CUTTERS in the legislature. Those scalawags spent a lot of money lying on TV about Kidwell and unfortunately some people were gullible enough to believe it. So now we are stuck with a legislator who was a longtime Democrat and major Democrat contributor who couldn't be bothered in his campaign to tell us where he stood on taxes or much of anything else, for that matter. Now, in sacking Kidwell, who was the main force in stopping the last casino bill, they have others running scared on gambling issues. They not only screwed our district but the whole state.
Commented: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026 @ 8:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer
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