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Van Zant: I hate being this pessimistic of human nature, but the mendacity of this Leftist bent of bureaucrats, and local politicians is readily apparent for those wise enough to discern what is real.

I may sound like a pessimist, but I am optimistic enough as a politician to do all I can to stop it. One task in my efforts to end this terrible construct of terrible Leftist behavior is informing the unbelieving that it actually does exist.

In that regard, I am thankful for your help, Van Zant, in these parts of the Public Square.

Commented: Saturday, July 5th, 2025 @ 10:18 am By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: The hypothesis is that Democratic Socialists and dim witted RINOs, controlled by life long Democratic Socialists bureaucrats, are working together, hand-in-glove, to end community schools through consolidation to regain control of the indoctrination method which is the core of Marxist Central Planning. Central Planning's program of blanket indoctrination of school age children is to regain control of what few young minds that will be left after School Choice eventually blossoms into an Education Renaissance.

This hypothesis must be the purpose and reason since the public's money is surely not being saved through consolidation; NO economy of scale whatsoever.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 10:31 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Terry Williams supported a Common Core and woke DEI math curriculum called Bridges for Beaufort County schools and on Snowden, he played both sides. He was against it before he was for it, and both positions were probably politically calculated. Beaufort County can do better on the School Board.

Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 9:54 am By: Conservative Voter

Hood is right about NOT voting on the process, and all junior politicians should take heed and watch what we do (Hood and Stan) since we generally know more than "you" (local politicians not humble enough to know who their betters are).

If it is a bad idea in its inception: NEVER vote for the "process" of that bad idea, and closing Snowden was an incredibly bad idea from its initial start.

Somewhat like building a 53,000,000.00 school that you DO NOT need, at the LOWEST point of the lot, when you first DO NOT get a TITLE SEARCH for land you thought owned, but DID NOT.

Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 8:13 am By: Stan Deatherage

Frankie Waters tenure running Tri-County Telephone into the ground should be a cautionary tale on letting Waters anywhere near management of public money. Under Waters "leadership" Tri County went belly up and had to be sold off to an out-of-town entity.

Terry Williams was a switch-hitter on Snowden. He went along with Cheeseman until the last minute when Cheeseman no longer needed his vote and it was politically advantageous at the very last minute to switch to supporting Snowden. If Williams had truly been a Snowden supporter at an earlier stage where it mattered the end result may have been different, but he preferred to play both sides of the issue the way sleazy politicians do.

Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 8:04 am By: Rino Hunter

Years ago, eastern NC still had quite a few conservative Democrats, often called Jessecrats for their support of Senator Jesse Helms, but that breed is now an extinct critter. All of the action is in the Republican Party, starting with the Republican primary.

The Republican Party rules do not allow the party itself to take sides in a primary. Most party officials are allowed to do so as individuals but cannot use party resources or titles to do so. When it comes to the general election, the party is obligated to support all party nominees against those running under any other banner. Party activity during the primary period that involves candidates should be evenhanded to allow all candidates to participate and meet the voters.

Our recent Beaufort County Republican convention elected a group of party officers and executive committee members who represent a cross section of various elements of the party. They are just beginning work on preparing for next year's elections. I am confident that our party now has a leadership team that will play by the rules in all respects and run an efficient and effective political operation for the 2026 election.

Voters should focus on policies rather than personalities in evaluating candidates. From the records of incumbents and the policy positions of non-incumbents, they should look to which candidates best represent the voters own views of what our county, state, and their governments need. For eastern North Carolina, that is generally a conservative viewpoint.

Commented: Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 @ 3:32 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Let's take a survey. How many people with business experience do we have on any of our boards? Look at the gallant effort that has been put into trying to save Aurora, except for the school system. Many things attract young people to a community to make it grow. The basics that they all look at are the three S's—school, Service, and Safety. When you kill the school, they do not look any further. The debacle of our county and city taxes and our school system is terrible. Half-filled school buildings, eight schools out of thirteen with poor ratings, 30-35% of our Children at reading level. So instead of fixing the Problem, let's close of one of the poorly rated schools and make the Superintendent look better. After all, they are mostly black kids, let'em ride the bus one to one and a half hours one way to school. That's the easy way out for the board, but a lousy way to run a railroad.

Commented: Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 @ 11:21 am By: Buzz Cayton