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I will not disparage fellow county commissioner Randy Walker on his vote because Randy Walker has said often that he does not see the need to consider issues that 'do not involve the direct concern of Beaufort County's government.'
While I disagree with Randy Walker's decision to see our role of self-governing from such a limited view, I do understand that as a Beaufort County Commissioner, and I have served with dozens over the decades, not everyone who has ever served in this capacity will ever master that innate essential knowledge that all levels of government (county, state and federal) are interconnected into a complex mosaic whose sum of capabilities greatly effect our every instance of efforts in today's highly politicized American Society. Congressman Murphy, on the other hand, has that position within the power structure of a current slim Republican majority to effect change, and to retain what is real and necessary, and that is the exact reason why these resolutions are written by those of us that can understand that complexity of governing, and then work diligently for real change so that this Constitutional Republic can have a real fighting chance to survive in these turbulent times. Congressman Murphy, in this instance, has let us down because the real history of who we are richly matters to me and my constituents, and, furthermore, it should to all of us who are represented by the governing class.
Commented: Friday, August 25th, 2023 @ 7:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Supporting African Americans makes me neither a Marxist or a troll. Your posts on the subject are tone deaf to those whose American's whose experience is different from yours and mine.
You and I are not bad people because our ancestors did some bad things, however, it is wrong to pretend it never happened. I think most people know that. Time to move forward.
Commented: Thursday, August 24th, 2023 @ 7:22 pm
By: Big Bob
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So Randy Walker gets a thumbs up from this site's resident Marxist troll, Bolshevik Bob. But Bobbie in spouting a modern far left narrative is ignoring his hero Karl Marx, who wrote of the War Between the States while it was still being fought that "the war is not about slavery, it is a war of economic subjugation by the north against the south." For those of us non-Marxists, British novelist Charles Dickens, one of the UK's contemporary anti-slavery leaders wrote essentially the same thing.
Commented: Thursday, August 24th, 2023 @ 4:37 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Maybe he thinks pandering to an insurrection against the US government to preserve a way of life that included owning people as one owns property should not be celebrated at the taxpayers expense? Especially when some of those taxpayers are direct decedents of slaves. Just sayin
Commented: Thursday, August 24th, 2023 @ 3:38 pm
By: Big Bob
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It was a shocker that Randy Walker goes along with cancel culture against the South. He is from a long time Southern family, and even transplanted yankee John Rebholz voted in favor of saving our heritage. Randy may learn that cancel culture can work two ways and voters who care about our Southern heritage may just decide to cancel him in his next election. Why did he make such a stupid vote? Was he pandering to BLM? Not many of them vote in Beaufort County elections, and probably none at all in GOP primaries.
Commented: Thursday, August 24th, 2023 @ 2:40 pm
By: Bubba
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