Comments for If we keep doing what we have been doing we will get what we have always gotten—a poor performing school system | Eastern NC Now

I think all southerners like fried chickem. I know I do.

As to orientals, it is clearly not just the lower class, given the history of the King of Siam eating the pedigreed dogs Queen Victory sent as a gift.

Commented: Saturday, September 21st, 2024 @ 7:45 am By: borderhawk

Don't think we have any Haitians around here, Bobbie, at least not yet. If we can vote out the Biden-Harris circus in November, maybe we won't.

Of course some orientals eat dogs and cats, too. There was an incident where Queen Victoria sent two prized pedigreed dogs as presents to the King of Siam, and got back a reply saying "Thank you, they were delicious"

Commented: Friday, September 20th, 2024 @ 8:56 pm By: borderhawk

Following up on the ineptitude and actual harm being done by local party activities: For the last several weeks I've been hearing this story about the most recent atrocity being performed by an officer of the BC Republican Party. Keep in mind this gang has been running the official party as if it were a PAC for a number of years. For some time now, I have heard some of the nasty stories. During the municipal elections I heard that vice chairwoman myself disparaging several Republican school board members - I voted for one of the people she seems to hate so much and took offence to her vitriol. I've continued to hear lots more of it from other credible people witnessing it being spewed out in public.

This latest story went so far that I figured it just couldn't be true, until I started hearing from some of the people involved. It seems that a family member of a Republican school board candidate entered Republican HQ and encountered the 2nd vice chairperson of the party. This is the person that generally runs the office open to the public. This Jody VC person told the family member that they should vote for Hodges, the Democrat in the race and not the Republican. Think about that. This party officer is at Republican HQs badmouthing the Republican candidate for School District 5 and recommending the Democrat!

Aren't there any checks on this person? Is the committee at large alright with this party disloyalty behavior? None of the other officers think something should be done? I didn't want anything to do with these people well before this, but they are so far rogue now that there is nothing redeemable left. They should be avoided like the plague.

Commented: Friday, September 20th, 2024 @ 10:45 am By: Van Zant

The way Bobbie uses the "R" word, he is trying to become the Al Sharpton of eastern North Carolina. How pathetic. Yes, citizenship by birth alone needs to GO. Few other developed countries have it.

Commented: Friday, September 13th, 2024 @ 9:48 am By: Rino Hunter

We need to eliminate this anchor baby concept, which is a questionable interpretation of the Constitution anyway. The Supreme Court has never directly ruled on that. Most countries base citizenship on the nationality of the parents, not the location where the child happens to be born. For example, if you have an ancestor who was a German citizen in 1871, you are entitled to German citizenship, but just being born there does not automatically make you a German citizen.

Commented: Thursday, September 12th, 2024 @ 2:38 pm By: borderhawk

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Commented: Thursday, September 12th, 2024 @ 1:00 pm By: Washingtonian

I just used the "voter lookup" tool on the NC Board of Elections website to check out David Hudson, and it shows he is a Republican. I seem to recall a snafu at the local board of elections that caused him to have to run as an Unaffiliated instead of in the Republican primary. I wish he had been in the primary because the RINO incumbent T.W. Allen is little more than a pathetic sock puppet for Superintendant Cheeseman. We need school board members who will stand up for parents and taxpayers, not yes-men for the school bureaucrats.

The problem is that we have a majority on the current school board who take orders from Cheeseman. That needs to change. It is the pro-Cheeseman faction that whines about the PAC that has helped fund conservative challengers to the Cheeseman group.

Commented: Thursday, September 12th, 2024 @ 12:20 pm By: Rino Hunter

The public should be aware that some of the comments on this site are part of an ongoing personal intra party battle. Some of the information presented here needs to be taken in that context. For example:
1. School scores below 40 are counted as an F for schools and are typically counted as an F for students under 60.
2. I do not know if HR has ever been a Democrat, but he obviously has not been a Democrat more than any Republican on the ballot. In this election that would be Randy Walker. Including this election with the one upcoming in two years that would be Frankie Waters.
3. Concerning some of the statements regarding school board members taking orders form a PAC, that all seems to be delusional.
I'm sure there is more, but I'm too lazy and uninterested to look for it. We have plenty of important legitimate issues in this upcoming election. The personal hatred just muddies the water for people trying to inform themselves and turns off many of us that are keeping up with issues. Even though I am very interested in my community, this is the single reason I want nothing to do with local parties.

Commented: Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 @ 9:50 am By: Van Zant

To the "True Republican" and the "Bath Parent": Your limited education and lack of intelect are showing. keep talking.

Commented: Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 @ 8:51 am By: Hood Richardson

Ok - I'll give you a chance to make your case. Name which schools are an "F" currently or ever has been in Beaufort County. HINT _ the answer is none but I'm waiting. This article contains MANY false statements but for now I'll just wait on your answer about "F" schools in Beaufort County.

Commented: Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 @ 5:49 am By: True Republican