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They say a community gets the Govt they deserve.
We local people must really suck, because our local govts sure do. As long as people continue to vote for the politician, simply because he/she goes to your church or knows you by your first name then the same old useless politicians will remain as our Govt. Whats the problem? Is the community so small and lacking in talent that people would rather have the devil they know, rather than the devil they dont? Think like Trump said: Try something different. What have you got to lose? If your politicians cant bother to call you back or reply to your emails, then you dont need him. If he takes you for granted, and is blind to the ppls anguish, then let him/her be invisible to you. If your politician hasnt done something actually physical for the community, then kick them to the curb. We dont need No Kings!
Commented: Saturday, June 14th, 2025 @ 4:47 pm
By: Washingtonian
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It is no wonder these RINOs shutdown Snowden School. What a dumb bunch of stupid politicians; what a messed up local "Republican" party. This makes me real mad!
Commented: Saturday, June 14th, 2025 @ 7:41 am
By: William Bonney
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Rino Hunter: Until the Beaufort County Republican Party starts functioning as a local party for real Republicans, it may never happen; however, there are real Republicans out there waiting in wings to help; confused entirely by the continued RINO supporting antics of the Beaufort County GOP; and could be mobilized under the right conditions.
I meet them more and more.
Commented: Saturday, June 14th, 2025 @ 7:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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What we have on our county commission is two admitted Democrats, two closet Democrats, and three Republicans. What we need is one more real Republican.
Commented: Saturday, June 14th, 2025 @ 7:26 am
By: Rino Hunter
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If Hood and Stan are shutdown at Beaufort County Commissioner meetings by two Democratics and two RINOs, what does these antics say about Keith Kidwell and the local Republican party, when they similarly shut down the top two Republicans in Beaufort County?
Commented: Saturday, June 14th, 2025 @ 12:20 am
By: Richard Marvin Butkus
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Whoops! I was referring to the Democrat Party SUPER delegates. LOL
Commented: Friday, June 13th, 2025 @ 2:18 pm
By: Van Zant
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Thank-you Ray for your grass-roots every-man view of the Convention politics at the state level.
On the other hand, back home here in Beaufort County: Last night at the local Beaufort County GOP meeting, in which I am not only an ex-officio, but also a voting committee meeting, I watched NC Representative Keith Kidwell, in an extremely heavy handled manner, shut down the meeting when the Conservatives wished to put forth conservative issues for consideration; as if Representative Kidwell's job was to run political interference for the RINOs in attendance ... In essence representing himself as these RINOs chief enabler. Doing such is not helpful for the other elected Conservatives here in Beaufort County ... It is just something that I would never do, and I am not alone among other elected Conservatives in that regard. When my constituents ask me what is wrong with government here in Beaufort County, I have one simple answer: The Beaufort County GOP. Last night once again was excellent proof of such, and this is not just my opinion ... there others that understand Conservative governing like I do, and it begins with Conservatives acting as a team on principled conservative issues.
Commented: Friday, June 13th, 2025 @ 1:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The good news is the corrupt electronic voting has run its course. The bad news is there are still plenty of barriers to block the will of respectable people. In the meantime, we are stuck with a NC Republican Party running incompetent state elections, protecting shady powerful politicians, and a credibility gap as wide as the Grand Canyon. That's the NCGOP.
The Democrats aren't off the hook. A party with supper delegates held in reserve to undermine the will of legitimate primary voters can't say anything about anything. Neither organized Republicans nor organized Democrats can claim any part of any high road.
Commented: Friday, June 13th, 2025 @ 8:44 am
By: Van Zant
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My understanding is
Brooke McGowen won the popular vote by 4 votes. Because the rules use a weighted vote- the # of qualified delegates at each district is included. I think Beaufort County has 40 qualified to come to the convention. Only 13 of us were there voting but once we had a majority voting for Brooke McGowen instead of Jason Simons, she got 40 “weighted votes” She lost by 805 votes. Some counties have hundreds of qualified delegates. Sooo… we as a smaller county could increase our voting power if we could enlarge the # of eligible delegates.
Commented: Thursday, June 12th, 2025 @ 11:38 am
By: Frank N Sense
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Ray, this convention had some definite pluses. One important one was stopping the Plan of Organization rewrite that would have increased control from the top, going against our tradition as a grassroots party. Interestingly, that proposal drew not only almost total opposition from grassroots / conservative elements of the party but also from many considered more "establishment" types.
The staunchly conservative platform also passed without much of a fight. Additions this year to party positions included support for election of the state Board of Education by the citizens of the state, instead of appointment by the governor, opposition to central bank digital currency, and denouncing the attempts by the courts to invade the province of the executive and legislative branches. The resolutions package which was conservative also passed intact. Unlike last year, establishment elements were not able to remove and discard some key conservative resolutions like medical freedom. The main disappointment came in the chairman's race, where establishment incumbent Jason Simmons prevailed over grassroots challenger Brooke McGowan on the weighted vote by 52.5% to 47.5%. McGowan has a majority of delegates physically present. McGowan's campaign was hurt by mass email company ConstantComment taking her money but then refusing for frivolous reasons to send out her emails. She got a late start in the email campaign as a result of having to find another emailer at the last minute. She probably also would have done better if she had gotten out more in the way of the failures of the NCGOP in this last campaign under its current leadership and more details on how she planned to correct the problems. For me, one of the biggest reasons we needed a change was the incompetent way the party's Judicial Campaign Fund was used which amounted to total political malpractice. If those funds had been used wisely, we would have elected conservative Jefferson Griffin to the Supreme Court instead of far left activist Allison Riggs, former co-director of the far left Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
Commented: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 @ 6:56 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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