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Steve: If the City Council did not take action by ratification in open session, nothing that they did in closed session is valid, and smacks of attempted fraud.

The City employee, as if he was directed to do so, misstating the governmental roles in real time of said officials is very troubling.

Commented: Monday, November 24th, 2025 @ 9:15 am By: Stan Deatherage

Local politicians are a disparate bunch.

Some are RINO Whisperers, who will do whatever it takes to aggregate power, and others are Conservatives to their core believing in the maxim that less government equals less corruption in providing essential services, and more freedom, in living life as an American citizen, is paramount in this Constitutional Republic.

I know where I stand, and it is my profound and prolonged dream that one day we can educate enough good, curious citizens, so that one day I will finally stand in the Conservative majority here in Beaufort County.

Commented: Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 @ 10:08 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Anyone attending the county convention this summer saw the Carolyn & Kidwell show. The mtg began at 9 and lasted until 3'ish due to shenanigans of these 2. NO lunch was served and those attending were required to stay the entire period to vote for county officers. Enough left to keep the chair vote safe.

Commented: Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 @ 7:35 pm By: Jeff Williamson

RoadKill: I'm picking up what you're putting down, Bruh; What you said IS Kidwell to the effing T!

I don't care if the man parted Sharon Harris for the Israelites to cross, there'd be a motive behind it AND it would be sold as HIM, being the good guy, trying to help the oppressed.....when it's actually a production that both Kidwell and the "Israelites" planned to blow smoke up the ass of remaining uniformed voter AND those in Rale....the Neo-Roman State House/Senate OCCUPYING Raleigh.

There is a disconnect between Raleigh and the "bothersome humans" everywhere else. Raleigh is the new Rome and as the late Michael Jackson once said: "they don't care about us."

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out. I don't know why some can't shake the dirt off and call these things out for what they are, man...its mind boggling.

Commented: Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 @ 2:31 pm By: John Valley

Update on one of the local anti-conservative hate mongers: If there is any doubt about how deranged that Forrest woman is, then check her out on Facebook. She is presently slandering the person elected to her old position as Vice Chair of the Party. Unlike Ms. Forrest the present-day party officer has been a great ambassador of the Republican Party and is an honorable person.

Additionally, Forrest claims that native Republicans in Beaufort County are racist white men and that they are threatening to sexually assault the Party Chairman! That's just a sample. She is obviously quite mad and needs professional help.

The thing that is unbelievable to me is that she was allowed to be the face of the local Republican Party for several years while she said these crazy things, badmouthed Republicans publicly, and campaigned for Democrats at the Republican Party Headquarters. Unhinged people like her were turned loose, with no controls by local Republican Party leadership, while worthy Republicans were harassed and slandered. That's some of the most unacceptable behaviors of a Republican Party organization (or any organization) I have ever heard of.

Commented: Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 @ 5:08 pm By: Van Zant

Part 2 continued:
So when powerless citizens contact Kidwell to ask 4help w a State matter, his office responds,saying that he cant help w this State issue, & within the body of that same letter he tells us that the city told his office, YOU have overgrown tree issues. Why the hell is a State Rep discussing such an issue? Furthermore, how is it to be interpreted? Is that a threat coming from Kidwell? Is it a kind of warning that says to the citizen, shut up or we can make life hard for u? I say it is a threat from both Kidwell's office & the City STAFF. And THAT is reason enough to retire Kidwell. He's callin on our people to resign, helpin others running 4 Mayor to fight the city, & all th while tellin senior citizens, you've got overgrown tree issues. What will happen to this VerySeniorCitizen now that this has been revealed?
I hope the new Council is listening w both ears & an open heart.

!Feeling like RoadKill in a small town and not safe in America.

Commented: Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 @ 4:17 pm By: RoadKill

Speaking as a Beaufort County Conservative, we are being put in a difficult position. We are not fans of the Phil Berger machine. I know I plan to contribute to the Sam Page campaign. It appears Berger has sold out long ago and he really should be brought up on disloyalty charges for things he has done in recent years. If the North Carolina Republican Party had any credibility left that would happen.

At the same time, our own Keith Kidwell while voting mostly right in Raleigh is utterly hostile to conservatives back home in Beaufort County. Kidwell's close associations with characters at home that hate conservatives is very problematic. Some of his friends in the Beaufort County Republican Party leadership should be brought up on charges also for their own crimes.

We are between a rock and a hard place. If he and his associates would just leave us alone, we could find some way to coexist with the power mad egomaniac. As long as he and his associates are attacking us, we are being forced to pick our poison.

Befuddled: I have heard something about a primary. I don't know much, but I'll be looking into it. Again, local conservatives are being forced to explore options.

Commented: Friday, November 21st, 2025 @ 10:39 pm By: Van Zant

For anyone who stands with Berger in ANY of his challenges to House conservatives, I have one thing to say - when you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Berger has pushed leftwing policy in Raleigh as hard as Roy Cooper has, and indeed they were often pushing the same leftwing agenda. The only place they got pushback was in the House, which sometimes stopped Berger and sometimes he overcame their opposition. They have gotten better at stopping Berger's nonsense in the House like with Berger's casinos and Berger trying to do a solid for the radical environmentalists by putting our commercial fishermen out of business.
www.beaufortcountynow.com

If Berger takes any scalps among the 6, so far, conservatives in the House he is trying to replace with his yes men, then it will intimidate others in the House from standing up to him. Anyone who sides with Berger is working ABAINST conservatives. Berger is the worst establishment power bully in the state. He already has almost all of the Senate Republicans completely intimidated and now he is trying to push the same poison in the House. That simply must be stopped or conservatives will be totally screwed in Raleigh. Local politics are downright petty compared to the huge impact these Berger challenges can have in Raleigh.

Berger is having a serious primary challenge himself from a conservative and may get taken down, hopefully, but that does not make his challenge to this group of House conservative leaders any less dangerous. Berger has cleared out any meaningful conservative voices in the Senate, and the departure of stalwart conservative Bobby Hanig to run for Congress, they will all be gone. If Berger goes down in the primary, it will be a Berger 2.0 that takes his place, playing the same game with the Democrats and special interests. Any of Berger's lieutenants would be as bad as Berger and we do not need opposition to them in the House to be intimidated.

Incidentally, liberal Berger lap dog Jimmy Dixon has also recruited a Berger-friendly candidate for Hanig's state senate seat to run against conservative retired judge Jerry Tillet in the primary. There may also be a second conservative in that primary which would split the conservative vote and let Berger's poodle win the primary. The Berger machine MUST be stopped. It is as evil as evil as Thom Tillis and has a lot more power.

The most rotten politician one could send to Raleigh would be a Berger Boy.

Commented: Friday, November 21st, 2025 @ 11:32 am By: John Steed

Steed: I trust no politician of any kind as....they're politicians; they're skilled at selling you one left shoe for the price of two and convincing you that "it's for your own good."

Both Berger and Kidwell need to go Audi 5000; they are perfect examples of what's wrong with the GOP. Both of them think they know everything when, in fact, they are the biggest bull**** artists this side of Raleigh. If Kidwell is playing a big part in trying to bend the County GOP to accommodate his agenda, why is he really doing it?

Does he know, in the back of his mind, that his time in Raleigh is coming to an end? If he treats people in Raleigh like he treats people here in BOCO, he's not the champion that some of these Boomers portray him to be.

Give him five minutes, in a Q&A, with the right "one"; he'd start short circuiting and claim that he's being set up by the democrats....typical Kidwellism when he's being hammered and there's no way out.

Commented: Friday, November 21st, 2025 @ 9:40 am By: John Valley

The Phil Berger machine, the sellout uber-RINOs of the General Assembly are who is out for Kidwell because he has been a key to blocking some of Berger's liberal crap in the House. The Berger machine is out to replace at least 6 conservatives in the House who have stood up to Berger, and Kidwell is one of them. Working hand in glove with him is liberal "Republican" House member Jimmy Dixon, who is notorious for blocking key pro-gun legislation. The Berger machine has targeted all of the leaders of the House Freedom Caucus to try to decapitate conservatives in the House. Kidwell, as chairman of the Freedom Caucus is at the top of their target list. Kidwell and the Freedom Caucus have been the key people in blocking Berger's casino bill and Berger's attempt to pander to radical environmentalists to put our commercial fishermen out of business. Berger wants yes-men and patsies in their place who will go along with his liberal schemes.

Berger is a complete traitor who was the key player in getting the top legislative priorities of Roy Cooper through the legislature. That started with repealing HB2 so that biological men could again go in Womens restrooms and locker rooms, and moved on to the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and the Green New Deal.

Berger, and his little lap poodle Dixon, are Undocumented Democrats, and their support of anyone SHOULD be the kiss of death for conservatives have anything to do with that candidate.

Commented: Friday, November 21st, 2025 @ 8:36 am By: John Steed

Befuddled: Ha. No need. I'm confident they are on it 24/7. I'll bet he and his friends on that shadow committee are working as we speak to call the dogs out on all Beaufort County Conservatives.

Commented: Thursday, November 20th, 2025 @ 10:48 pm By: Van Zant