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Maybe it is time to get someone with some business sense in a high administrative office at Beaufort County Schools, and to get a local school board attorney who is physically present to ride herd on major projects such as this, not one way off in Raleigh. This school ought to be named the CHeeseman Boondoggle Elementary School.

Commented: Saturday, January 25th, 2025 @ 8:45 pm By: John Steed

Expecting a liberal education bureaucrat to understand business world concepts is like expecting a chimpanzee to know how to use a computer. Why do they keep giving this boob raise after raise and automatically extending his contract? It seems to me the money he has cost our taxpayers should be DEDUCTED from his pay and the sooner they can get him out of his contract the better.

Commented: Saturday, January 25th, 2025 @ 5:31 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Will, without a disclaimer, Cheesaman is declaring the actual value of this property and would need to produce a certified value to prove his validity. If presented to a bank, this could be a fraudulent action.

Commented: Saturday, January 25th, 2025 @ 12:38 pm By: Buzz Cayton

Anyone who truly understands history knows that both Lee and King were great men. Those who want to revere one and denounce the other is a radical ideologue. The rewriting of history is done by the far left such as the leftist 1619 Project, which even its creator admits is not real history.

Leftists tend to ignore that one of their own heavy weights at the time the War Between the States was actually in progrss clearly stated it was NOT about slavery. Karl Marx wrote "the war is not about slavery; it is a war of economic subjugation by the north against the south."

We Conservatives look more to the writings of Sir Winston Churchill who identifies slavery as one of the minor causes of the war or of contemporary British anti-slavery leader novleist Charles Dickens calling the north's claim to be fighting against slavery as "specious humbug designed to disguise their desire for economic control of the south.".

President Dwight Eisenhower kept a portrait of General Lee as an outstanding American on display in the Oval Office. President Eisenhower is a better judge of history than far left internet troll Little Bobbie.

Commented: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 4:36 pm By: Conservative Voter

Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were born on the same day roughly a century apart, both great men.

"Slavery is an institution of moral and political evil" - Robert E. Lee, 1859

"People should be judged on the content of their character, not the color of thier skin" - Martin Luther King, 1963

Commented: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 11:42 am By: Conservative Voter

The fact is Bob, that black candidates had run for office is Beaufort County for a variety of offices. We had a black Washington City Councilman who was top votegetter and Mayor Pro Tem due to all the white vote he received. We had a black Republican who had been head of security nationally for McDonalds corporation who was top votegetter in the first round of the Republican sheriff primary over multiple white challengers due almost entirely to white votes as few blacks were registered Republican in those days, and won a landslide one on one with a white opponent in the runoff. When it came to the general election however, the black voters voted for the white Democrat over this very well qualified black Republican. We had a black deputy sheriff in Hyde County challenge white dingbat Howard Chapin in the Democrat primary for NC House, but Beaufort County black voters voted for the white Chapin.

I am also only looking at elections close in time to the VRA lawsuit from David Moore. If you go back to Reconstruction, I think there were some black Republicans elected to local office then.

I did not "miss" your points, BOb. I annihalated them.

Commented: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 11:18 am By: Steven P. Rader

Perhaps Bob needs a refresher course in reading comprehension or maybe he is just so into Democrat spin he just says whatever comes to mind. Lets look at his distortions.

"Democrats - racist" Well, NO. What I pointed out is that Democrat Frank Bonner was operating purely in his own political self interest. As a white politician finding himself in what would be a black district, he naturally thought that would not be good for his own political future. It would have been the same if he had found himself in a Republican voting district. It was all about his own political self interest for Frank Bonner.

"Courts- not to be trusted" In this case, the district court dealt with a situation that appellate courts had not specifically ruled upon, where a party at one point agreed but then withdrew that agreement. While it is not certain which way the appellate courts would have ruled, the odds of a favorable ruling for the county were certainly high enough it should have been appealed.

"Voting Rights Act - bad" I made no comment on the act itself, only that the evidence here would likely have resulted in a victory for the county if they had fought it out instead of surrendering. To win a voting rights case, the plaintiff must prove that voting is racially polarized and they did not have the facts on their side in this case. No black had run for county commission to establsh such a pattern, and if you looked at other races, there was ample evidence that such a pattern did not exist. Part of that was substantial white vote for a black city councilman in Washington. But it went well beyond that to include heavy white voter support in the nomination of a black candidate over several whites in a Republican sheriff primary, and the fact that the majority of blacks voted in the general election for a white Democrat over that well qualifired black Republican. It also included a state House Democrat primary, where the majority of Beaufort County blacks voted for the white incumbent over a well qualified black challenger who has a Hyde County Deputy Sheriff. The county could have blown Moore's case out of the water if they had contested it based on those then-recent election results, but to me the best result would have been a settlement based on Moore's district proposal. That would have given the county a better voting system than it had and light years better than limited voting.

And, although it destorys your narrative, if you go back, Bob, and read the Wasington Daily News accounts when this was happening, you will find my account is accurate.

Commented: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 9:57 am By: Steven P. Rader

What happened to Bigot Bob's race card? He is defending the white Democrat guy's voting plan against the black guy's proposal. In this case, it was clearly the black guy's proposal that was far better for the citizens of Beaufort County but Bigot Bob does not like it.

Commented: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 9:04 am By: Rino Hunter

Bob, the "someone who wanted to change the system to fit their needs" who gave us "limited voting" was a Democrat County Commission chairman named Frank Bonner. Beaufort County was facing a Voting Rights Act lawsuit from David Moore over the way ocmmissioners were elected. They had the ammuniction evidence-wise to win the suit over Moore but hired a Chapel Hill liberal attorney who preferred to negotiate the surrender instead of win the case. Moore presented a district plan, which i had the opportunity to see at a later period, and it was a solid plan. Frank Bonner, however about had kittens over the plan because it put his own home in a black district. He instructed that liberal Chapel Hill attorney to come up with an alternative plan that would not end his personal political career. That plan was limited voting. Frank Bonner's personal "needs" were to save his own political career and limited voting was imposed on Beaufort County to do that. I wish Moore had stuck to his guns on his district plan because it was a good one.

When the public found out about the limited voting that was coming their way, there was a huge public uproar, so much so that the all-Democrat commissioners tried to back out of it, but the court ruled they had gone too far in settlement of the case to do so. Our appellate courts have ruled that limited voting is such a strange system that courts cannot impose it as a remedy unless all the parties agree to accept it. In our case, the court ruled that if they accepted it at one point, even if they changed their mind, that was enough. That aspect should have been taken to an appellate court, but it wasn't.

Commented: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 7:33 am By: Steven P. Rader

Sounds like someone who wants to change the system to fit their needs.

Commented: Sunday, January 19th, 2025 @ 12:58 pm By: Big Bob

The confusing thing is that the School Board has not learned that the Superintendent works for them. He is hired-help. Yet he sits at the front desk with his secretary, alongside the School Board Chairman, and reads the rules for the School Board at each meeting. He is not a member of the board but functions as one. Now Cheeseman is an engineer and didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn last night. Parents need to get involved.

Commented: Saturday, January 18th, 2025 @ 4:23 pm By: Buzz Cayton

BC commissioners are subservient to their constituents. Like you, they get elected too.

You folks work for us.

Commented: Saturday, January 18th, 2025 @ 9:07 am By: Big Bob