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I love jobs and biddness. But I also love zoning and planning. I would think this might be an issue the seven of you could agree on.
Work to whether, treat each other with respect and get something done. You know, for us.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 4:29 pm
By: Big Bob
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Big Bob: And you don't believe that we should build Heavy Industry in the county's Industrial Park South?
What have you got against good paying jobs here in Beaufort County? Please tell me, Big Bob; inform us all: What is the Leftist /anti MAGA position on Defense Industry jobs here in Beaufort County?
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I know where BC Industrial Park South is.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 12:52 pm
By: Van Zant
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VZ - the question isn’t what to build. It’s where to build.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 11:51 am
By: Big Bob
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Well BB, I wish someone, anyone, would "beat that horse like a rented mule" on my behalf. Everyone is afraid to challenge the city because they figure they may need a favor some day...and that includes the lawyers. Silence makes all complicit. One council member has said to a citizen: "If u dont like the way we run the govt then hire a lawyer."
Note... no attempt to do right by a citizen in need. Why? Because they are all rubber stamps for the City Manager who does their thinking for them.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 11:52 am
By: Washingtonian
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Big Bob: Since you are anonymous here on encnow.com, are you one of the people that are working against economic development here in Beaufort County?
I see it on a regular basis; the special interest groups that consider their needs first out of financial justification, or just pure economic ignorance, which is rampant in certain sectors. As an OEM creator, I have witnessed some overly compensated economic fools, with far too much decision making power, and it is nigh time that they be exposed, and removed from any decision making authority here in Beaufort County, especially where the People's vested needs and collective interests are concerned.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I've observed there is a lot of corruption at the federal, state AND local levels.
I thought we established an industrial park so we would not have industry next to our houses (or in place of them) but might have it somewhere. Munition factory? Sounds like a great place to get a job. Gun manufacturing would be good, too. I might even apply for any such openings if they were here. Maybe some of my family members could stay home instead of being forced to leave. But no, our choice is make do here or go somewhere else. I'll continue to pray for the people of California. They're not all crazy, and the ones that are crazy in many instances know not what they do.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 11:14 am
By: Van Zant
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W- I appreciate your thoughtful response. I would argue that all political bodies are corrupt to one degree or another, however hoody and death trade on it. They beat that horse like a rented mule.
Being in the minority means they usually don’t get what they want. Instead of working respectfully with others to promote a better outcome, they take the flamethrower approach. In truth there may be more corruption than the 4 would admit, but there is way less than the 2 would have you believe. Never underestimate, regardless of party, a politician willingness to be bought.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 6:37 am
By: Big Bob
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Then build a munitions factory next to your house. Typically people like you find a black neighborhood and build it there, but sure you and the family won’t mind living next to it. Trust me. You’ll love it!
Btw-Your attack on the people of California is disgusting.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 6:25 am
By: Big Bob
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Big Bob: All Leftists love zoning; actually all contrived rules and regulations that inhibit growth, creativity and success are their economic catnip.
We are finding in California that Leftists enjoy the Keynesian quality of wildfires, left uncontrolled, as an economic development crutch and as a controlling restraint upon their society. Letting houses burn, undeterred, is big money for the Leftist control in the financial exploitation of their Sheeple society in Democratic Socialist California. Big Bob: Your advocacy for unrestrained and poorly considered zoning restraints does not surprise me in the least here in Beaufort County. What if the conditions placed upon FEMA funding for California is more than the usurping Leftists can bear? I truly hope that will be the case.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 3:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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BB, zoning laws are important, but what is a citizen to do when a city refuses to enforce them, when they are dead set on doing a favor for the favored? The rest of us be damned. Washington,NC is corrupt as hell, and no one here wants to talk about it.
Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 6:35 pm
By: Washingtonian
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It seems we have an industrial park, but county leadership doesn't particularly want any industry.
Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 8:05 pm
By: Van Zant
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I think its a truism.
When words are spoken, everyone hears what is said a bit differently. Some hear it a LOT differently. At the Jan 6 Commissioners meeting, I heard Hood plead for just a bit of oversight regarding $$ the school system spent on parts of th curriculum. As good stewards of th taxpayers $$ it seemed fair to Hood that the commissioners know some facts regarding some of the local curriculum that WeThePpl had paid for. Mind u, he was Not asking to take control of how the schools are spending that $$, just bit of oversight... just a bit of dutiful service for the citizens so that we could all be informed. (He had the same concerns about the Sheriff's Dept.) Then I heard 4 of the Commissioners take a position as if they were Sgt Shultz: "I know nothing," & I'm happy w knowing NOTHING. They had stuck their head in the sand & showed no desire to be good stewards of the taxpayers $$ with which they had been entrusted. A complete abrogation of duty. So disappointing.
Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 4:48 pm
By: Washingtonian
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Zoning laws are important. They keep a balance of the economic good vs livability. Sounds like the board is aware of this and taking both aspects into consideration before inviting new business into the are carefully.
Good for them.
Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 4:29 pm
By: Big Bob
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Thank-you Commissioner Richardson for bringing to specific light how Beaufort County governs employing the consensus of those that "go along to get along," and pure common sense be damned; damned by those in the control of one special interest or another as they plan their various group-think movements ... the deliberate and the well orchestrated foolhardy controlling affairs of the Center - Left Coalition; now membered by just 2 Democratic Socialists and 2 RINOs.
Thank God for elections every two years, and the next election for county commissioner cannot come soon enough. We, the self-governed, deserve so much better. I advise every concerned citizen that knows the infamous fact that government spending, for what government offers the public, is far out of control, and to PLEASE Make This Stand NOW. Our sense of forever tomorrows may be too late.
Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 1:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I believe the Chocowinity property has a railroad track running through it. That is like waterfront property for heavy industry. You failed to mention that we are turning out students for our workforce who cannot read a ruler.
Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 1:01 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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