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I spoke about Charlie Kirk at church today to some very sincerely Christian folk, and I must admit at one point, I got a bit choked up, as I related the symbolic slaughter of Charlie as a lamb, just as our Lord and Savior was tortured and slaughtered as God's own Son; His own "Lamb of God" given in His awesome grace for our eternal salvation.

Commented: Sunday, September 21st, 2025 @ 2:07 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I agree with a lot of what is being said here about the local party. More times than not it seems like many of the local Republican Party leaders are more interested in going after conservatives and especially native conservatives than they are interested in taking on leftists and crooks. We've got some very real local issues that need to be dealt with, and they are consumed with their self-interest and personal soap opera drama. These very loud people do not speak for me.

Also, like Jeff I have found that a few of the School Board members call me back. Most do not.

Commented: Sunday, September 21st, 2025 @ 11:14 am By: Van Zant

Lest we forget who hijacked the convention this summer in an attempt to have attendees leave after hours and hours of theatrics. No lunch was served and the convention ended at 3'ish.

Kidwell and Garris.

There are board members who return calls and actually answer calls when made. So don't broad brush all the board members as not communicating.

Garris and Kidwell over-stepped to 'act' for the party. Individually and personally, they are free to give their opinions. They 'jumped' on this situation very quickly but so have others. Not very difficult to understand what is occurring here. It's a 'pile-on' gop-style. The dems would circle wagons and bring out swords and knives.

Wish Garris and Kidwell cared for many financial matters and dealings b/w the county and the city; actual tax $$$.

Commented: Sunday, September 21st, 2025 @ 9:09 am By: Jeff Williamson

Befuddled: If I had the time I would pay more attention to writing on local issues, but I do not have the time; however, I do have the profound ability to accept contributions, on this expansive platform, from our community of such good and wise people.

And also Befuddled, I will also do my very best to return every request from my constituents for comment and answer, or just to quickly listen to whomever might need my time challenged ear.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 5:42 pm By: Stan Deatherage

RH: I'm wondering the same things. The instant release of the tape does suggest political motivation. I'm hearing the superintendent did it unilaterally. I think the School Board needs to make an official statement regarding this. So far, they look as pathetic as the BC Republican Party Executive Committee.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 1:41 pm By: Van Zant

I have wondered about that almost instant release of that tape. That almost never seems to happen in government unless politically motivated. On that Tennessee school shooting a couple of years ago, they have not even today officially released the shooter's manifesto. A copy leaked after a year or so, but nobody knows if what leaked is complete.

Did the School Board authorize Cheeseman to release it? Did he even ask them? Did he seek advise of legal counsel? If he did, that legal counsel would have been that Durham lefty Democrat, who the school board member in question has been asking for a lot of information on, from what I am told. So does a lawyer who is a big time Democrat political operative advising against a Republican elected official, and one who is raising questions about that lawyer's own continuing in that position, have a conflict of interest in offering advice in the matter? Of course given that conflict of interest, Cheeseman may have kept him out of the loop.

The way this whole thing went down does not pass the smell test. What it reeks of most is rancid cheese.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By: Rino Hunter

This issue has opened a huge can of worms. There are a LOT of things that need to be addressed. In my view the first thing to be dealt with is the fact that Carolyn Garris and Keith Kidwell are, so far, being allowed to speak for the Beaufort County Republican Party. I've called several BC Executive Committee members, and they have not met about this matter. Garris and Kidwell have no authority to make public pronouncements with the authority of the Beaufort County Republican Party. They should be reprimanded for their inappropriate public actions.

The pompous hypocrisy of many of the people in these types of positions is breathtaking. The efforts by people trying to restore some integrity to the local Republican party have been set back light years by this episode alone.

On all things, this seems to be the way things are done in Beaufort County these days. It is depressing seeing what we are becoming.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By: Van Zant

I saw that video on TV. What's the big deal? They are making a mountain out of a molehill. It looks like a political hatchet job to me.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 7:44 am By: Bubba

This is just another example of Cheeseman wading into politics when he distributed that tape. It is like Cheeseman's frivolous complaints about a campaign sign of an opponent of one of his school board brownnosers or his crybaby crusade against a fundraising letter of his opponents. No wonder Cheeseman has the county chairman of the Durham County Democrat Party as Beaufort County School Board Attorney.

Commented: Friday, September 19th, 2025 @ 9:35 pm By: Conservative Voter

I have been in the mountains on what turned into a vacation of as much mountain hiking as my bum left hip could stand, while additionally working hard at all things Stan, so I did not hear of this bizarre, but very human-like incident until now. I am sure that I will learn more of it as any need to know arises, and may exist later.

Then there was the Charlie Kirk Political Assassination, by yet another radicalized Non Patriot Leftist, which really hit close to home for me; lost a bunch of sleep over that black moment in our Republic's history. Events such as this tend to rattle my governing radar far more than local prattle over this and that - the proverbial shiny objects.

Additional in my distraction, the strengthening of my left leg by hiking that bum hip, of Stan, up and down some huge North Carolina mountains for my inner peace, and the prescribed: My rather necessary pre-surgery physical therapy as a preparation for my September 25th hip replacement event, was a prerequisite priority; inept Beaufort County School Board and Administration matters notwithstanding.

On the other political hand, I am incredibly encouraged that the intellectually resourceful Steve Rader has joined the resilient Charles Hickman, and the spotlight driven Stacey Davis on Beaufort County's School Board to act as our Conservative agents of hope, whereby so much incredible bad policy exists for them, and others like them must correct, of which ... That well needed change cannot come soon enough, and yes, we need our good elected leaders to accomplish what is best for all, and their worthy deeds must be constant, continual, and consistently applied.

Additionally, be warned: These are many very serious days, great "turning point" days laid out before us, as much evil and the resultant ineptitude driven event of an incredible, a very probable human calamity that exists all about us, and must be forestalled until fixed for succeeding generations yet to come.

Therefore, be aware, YOU, the Good People among US: Do not let your attention be swayed, or diverted from what is real by yet greater Democratic Socialist and RINO groupings of the many "shiny objects" of yet more profound absurdities. Be aware of all that is real and threatening; pay attention to what it means to be a patriot; and, DO YOUR JOB in this self-governed society by electing intellectually better equipped leaders to rein in these profound pockets of insane stupidity that exist all about us, and will continue as such, until we, the self-governed, do all that is needed and required.

That day is coming to do what is Right; YOU MUST be prepared to do so, for our Constitutional Republic's essential survival depends upon YOU.

Commented: Friday, September 19th, 2025 @ 2:49 am By: Stan Deatherage

WS: Maybe someone didn't like the line of questioning by this member at the last meeting. Personally, I'm glad to see board members asking tough questions.

Commented: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 @ 2:50 pm By: Van Zant

District Attorney refused to prosecute. This involves a mother and her children. Hard to geta jury to convict.

Commented: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 @ 9:53 am By: Hood Richardson