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Stan: That's the thing. The Beaufort County GOP is not only of NO use to the re-election of proven conservative Republican candidates they are in opposition to those candidates.
There will always be groupies that slobber over the goons running the party so unethically and illegally. I hope the general public is catching on to how fraudulent these people are.
Commented: Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 @ 2:02 pm
By: Van Zant
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I've got more questions and concerns regarding the unscrupulous people in the local party. About this "Victory Committee:" Who is on it besides Carolyn Garris and Keith Kidwell? I've asked executive committee members that I know and they tell me who they think may be on the committee, but they don't know for sure. Let that sink in. Executive Committee members do not even know who is on one of their standing committees.
Also, under Powers and Duties of the county plan the County Chair and Vice-Chair shall be ex-officio members of all committees. Have the present-day 1st Vice-Chair or 2nd Vice-Chair ever attended a "Victory Committee" meeting? The current 2nd Vice-Chair has been "pronounced" off the executive committee solely on the made-up authority of Chairperson Garris and the rumor of dubious testimony to her from her Philly friend that has a long record of lying and scheming to legendary heights of dishonesty. I get the feeling that these duly elected officers are not welcome on this shadow committee or any other committee. That is just one more rule violation by these people that have no respect at all for rules. Consider this: The "Victory Committee" was not formed by the existing Beaufort County Executive Committee. I'm led to believe it was created by present Chairperson Garris with the possible blessing of the previous executive committee before the last county convention or not. This is surely not a legal committee at this time. Also consider this: The "Victory Committee" does not report to the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee. This is not legal either. And consider this: The "Victory Committee" acts independently of the Executive Committee and spends money independently of the Executive Committee. At this time, they are illegally acting in place of the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee. If there is a more corrupt party organization in the state of North Carolina than this one, I would be very surprised. They make past serious indiscretions of previous committees look like Sunday school. They are a disgrace. RH: I agree, Monica Davis running for school board in district 6 looks like a Lib plant and many of us can guess by who. Her incumbent Republican opponent is solid. That is an easy choice. Vote Rader in district 6. The NC House District 79 race is more complicated simply because thuggery and harassment is not an issue by some and is an issue by others; especially when it involves friends and family.
Commented: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 @ 7:30 pm
By: Van Zant
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VZ, two RINOs that can be identified with Democrat roots running as RINOs are Monica Davis running for School Board in district 6, a longtime Democrat who only recently became a "Republican", and Darren Armstrong, a longtime Basnight Democrat from Hyde County running for NC House. Frankie Waters tried to recruit him as a county commission candidate, which is also telling. The Raliegh RINOs did recruit him for NC House.
Commented: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 @ 9:54 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Van Zant: Thank-you for your confidence, and I, too, despise Limited Voting as much as any Beaufort County voter who would rather have better representation by having more votes for what seats are available, but, that is just not the way it is now, and it has been this sorry way since 1992.
With Limited Voting in place, and limiting voting for all, there is a tendency to split votes in families, and that kind of action got me beat in a primary once in 2014, and nearly got Hood beat two years earlier. I remind all when I lost that primary, as the assumed front runner, Frankie Waters was elected with Ron Buzzeo, which began a spending spree in Beaufort County, which put the Bureaucrat Class in control, which helped lift Beaufort County's GOP into a landing pad for RINOs. Remember that The Hood was alone on that board of commissioners, as the only Conservative for 4 years, until I was elected as a non incumbent for the third time. Now we have 3 Conservatives, and granted we need another, but can we afford to lose me again like in 2014? It is a conundrum Van Zant that can backfire, so respectively Van Zant, I ask for all of your votes, all that you can muster, and yet, I still pray for a second Conservative to be elected as well. Beaufort County needs that voting Conservative block, but not without me, and all I know from all my experience. It is not an easy task governing without guidance. At this point in this long career, I have plenty of guidance to give. Between The Hood and myself, and two more votes, we can straighten this mess out that Beaufort County has become, a cesspool for stupid, and often corrupt governing, bad governing within so many levels of smaller governing bodies, all of which I have been powerless to rein while in the political minority ... The Conservative minority. And one more Van Zant; you are right about Carolyn.
Commented: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 @ 12:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stan: "Who are the Democrats running as RINOs this time around...?" At this point all I know is there are two I'll consider, there are two I'll not consider, and there is one I'm waiting to see about. Of course, the registered Democrat will not be considered, because he is a radical socialist and he voted against Snowden School. Stan Deatherage has a conservative record, and he voted for Snowden School, so he is one of the first two.
With Limited Voting I can only vote for one, but my wife and I can vote for two. I've got to think about that though. When it is all said and done, we will know who the essentially Democrat Republicans are. The other tip off will be if Carolyn Garris calls on them, that's the Dem.
Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 10:27 pm
By: Van Zant
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Van Zant: For me this primary feels like I am running against the RINOs and the RINO Whisperers; my ideas against theirs, and may this be a referendum on the People voting in this election, and not so much on the candidates, other than me. I am real and right as rain.
That is the way I see it, and now especially since I hear that they are coming for me again since I am the undisputed front running, tried and true, battle tested, and most unflinching Conservative in this local election. In these recent elections, the Democrats do not run any candidates now because they can easier get their candidates as RINO Republicans, at least that is what I have been told by some former prominent Democrats, ie Democrat Frankie Waters; Democrat Randy Walker, which begs the question to be answered: Who are the Democrats running as RINOs this time around in this 2026 Republican Primary? Additionally: To what extent are the RINOs and the RINO Whisperers in the Beaufort County GOP complicit in give great succour and comfort to these Fake Republicans in this 2026 general election?
Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 6:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stan: Yes, there have been some unscrupulous characters in the local party. But as you correctly pointed out there was in the past always a large element of the Beaufort County GOP that could be depended on to be straight up, and they had some power and influence in the party. At times they had a lot of power in the party. Presently there are still good people in the GOP, but they are under such ruthless, devious and sometimes violent attacks from the unscrupulous elements that they do not have power like in the past. The credible people are beaten down because they are under constant attack by thugs that want this as their private club and as a base for their corrupt ventures.
I think the 2019 (Yellow Sheet) county convention was a dividing line. We found out then how much some of these people truly hate us. Time has proven the haters bring nothing good to our community. Because of the harm they have done, the party badly needs reform. At the very least, bring it back under the plan of organization and basic decency. That's really not too much to expect. In the meantime, the community and Republican candidates have to put up with this crap party.
Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 6:04 pm
By: Van Zant
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Van Zant: If you had told me 22 years ago that we would have had all these RINOs in our political midst at this level of good governing intrusion, I would not have believed it.
Back then, in the party, we still had the RINOs, like then chairman "Hopeless" Van Dorp, who as chairman worked to have me lose in a special election to then Democrat Party Chairman Etles Henries (the Democrat candidate) to relace Conservative Commissioner Carol Cochran, who had hand picked me to as her successor. Hood still likes to remark that in this election, it was the "first time a Republican had won an election in Beaufort County where Stan defeated both the Democrat party chairman and the Republican party chairman in the same election. And then there was super RINO Jay McRoy standing in my political and governing way, who always liked to remark, in political settings, how he knew how to "work the numbers." My oh my, how "the fruit does not fall far from the tree." Still, back then, there was a large element of the Beaufort County GOP that I could depend on; not now., and they did not tolerate the long list of RINO pseudo political wannabes that were beginning to emerge as an established class, who would elect their RINO champions, not matter how sorry and non Conservative they all turned out to be. At least for now that "Forest Woman" is no longer squatting in the RINO encrusted local party's HQ disparaging me at every point possible. That was the 2022 election for the primary and the general election. I wonder: Is that not yet another instance of RINO "Party Disloyalty" as specified by the Party's Plan of Organization? Since I returned to the board in 2018 ... Again ... The Beaufort County GOP has been no use to me at all - just the opposite - especially during election. Even now as I seek my 8th term as a county commissioner, elected three times as a non incumbent, I sometimes wonder: What RINO plans they have for my demise? This will be an interesting primary and general election, and 'I will not go quietly into that good night.' That I promise Van Zant.
Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 8:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I agree with your observations, Stan. The hostile RINO takeover of the local party has transformed the party from an apparatus that helps Republicans into an apparatus that excludes and works against local conservatives while supporting the RINOs and RINO Whisperers. It seems like this mission has priority over working against Democrats in general elections.
For example, I got a phone call the other night asking me to check out Face Book. I don't even like FB so I was not inclined to do it until he asked me, who is the person that bounces around FB giving thumbs ups using the name Beaufort County Republican Party? That's actually a very good question. I'll bet most of the members of the executive committee do not know the answer to that question. So, I looked a little. Sure enough, the insiders and especially the insider candidates were getting all kinds of love fest Beaufort County Republican Party thumbs ups. Looked up some conservative Republican candidates and office holders I vote for. They were getting thumbs ups, but no action from Beaufort County Republican Party. Looks like somebody gets to choose IN PRIMARY SEASON for the real Beaufort County Republican Party. I wonder who gets to exert this power and by what authority? I haven't even gotten to the discretionary and ethics problems of these actions because the authority issue looms so large. The people that take and use these unauthorized powers are the same people that attack local Republican officeholders and insinuate they are representing the Beaufort County Republican Party to the media when they are not. They are the same people that have a long and growing history of falsely charging Republicans they do not like with false crimes that have to be resolved over time by outside arbitration, after having no hearing from the local committee. They are the same people that use threats and much worse against fellow Republicans. I've only touched the surface of this ugly situation. These corrupt and hostile people are not fit to be the face of the Republican Party or anything else. They have proven this by their abuse of power and their rotten actions over an extended period of time.
Commented: Sunday, January 18th, 2026 @ 6:02 pm
By: Van Zant
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You are right Van Zant on so many levels using Conservative Adam O'Neal as an example to manifest the contrasting elements of the RINOs, which that have long infested the Beaufort County GOP's, constant fight against all real Conservatives that work together as a team, of which Adam is one.
Adam O'Neal was an early member of of the modern day Beaufort County GOP, where we built the party into an apparatus that would help Real Republican candidates get elected. Now, the present day GOP works to elect RINOs and RINO Whisperers, while lending sanctuary to the wanton RINOs on the Beaufort County Commissioners; those who have cost Beaufort County Tax Payers tens millions of tax dollars in terrible RINO /Democratic Socialist policy, thereby instituting an political environment that foments the waste, fraud and abuse that has, and will continue to plague Beaufort County tax payers until we, Conservatives, can finally take over the Beaufort County Commission as that Conservative majority that is warranted and badly needed. The local GOP's record of creating that political environment, where capable Republicans, Real Republicans, serving on the Beaufort County School Board is equally abysmal. Here the RINOs, and the RINO Whisperers on the Beaufort county GOP are just as active in working against these Real Republicans, Conservatives, as they have shown they are capable in working against the Conservatives on the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, in which there are three out of four commissioners now serving. It is a sorry story of these incapable hacks playing at politics, while knowing nothing of what real governing constitutes in its essential state, how it works, and how it works well. RINOs and RINO Whisperers will never be the answer to remedying this sorry state of political player plaguing We, the self-governed People, of Beaufort County.
Commented: Sunday, January 18th, 2026 @ 7:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stan: We might need Sigmund Freud and a team of psychiatrists to answer that one.
I can only guess. Adam has a distinguished record as a Republican in Beaufort County. It's my understanding that early on he worked within the local Republican Party and played a big role in party building in this county. More recently he holds the distinction of being a multi-term Republican mayor of a Beaufort County town with a high percentage of minorities. That tells me he earned a lot of trust from his constituents. I suppose it's been a while since Adam has actually worked in the local party infrastructure. I'm wondering if that might be some of their problem. Many of these recent party leaders that have parachuted in from parts afar and are allied with their recent Democrat scalawag friends seem to be control freaks. Dictators at heart and willing to use any means to do it. They show that with their constant attacks in the form of dishonest and illegal party actions against Republican Party activists they do not like. Adam O'Neal is a strong Republican, but he is not in that party infrastructure at this time in his life. Since they could not go after him from the party infrastructure direction, it seems they tried a strategy of deceitful character assassination. They went that way since they could not control him within the party using their usual disgusting methods. I guess the short answer is they do not like anything they cannot control. That's all my guess. There is no guessing about the vile actions of a group of party leaders as they attack good Republicans by misusing their positions within the party. There is no guessing there. These are facts. I'm open to other interpretations of what makes these corrupt people tick.
Commented: Saturday, January 17th, 2026 @ 10:30 pm
By: Van Zant
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Van Zant: Why is it that RINOs despise Adam O'Neal so vehemently?
Commented: Saturday, January 17th, 2026 @ 7:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The self-proclaimed "real Republicans" are everything they claim others are: It's hypocrisy. It's worse than hypocrisy. I also believe there is not much these people are not capable of in the form of perniciousness.
I wish Adam O'Neal the best in defending himself against the fake party attack (by the so called "real Republicans") by way of that tape paid for by the county Republican Party but not authorized by the Republican Party Executive Committee. The Chairperson and the Treasurer would have a lot of explaining to do in any legitimate organization. It's been months and there are still no explanations in this committee led by swindler party officers. In an above-board organization, that would not be appropriate. These crooks are furiously working to sweep all this under the rug, leaving a trail of new attacks on more innocent people. The trail of mistreated local Republicans is getting longer and longer. Just months ago, there was the uncalled-for bullying of a Republican School Board member. A few years ago, there was the false party charges on a now sitting member of the County Commission. It took outside arbitration to clear this innocent Republican from the viciousness of these people. Now it's two innocent county executive committee members. One is a vice chairperson. The scoundrels that "Brandon" represents are not interested in a united Republican Party. He said as much in his statement. A successful party to them is to excommunicate everyone that is not in their crowd. These people have a long history of using noxious tactics in their quest to purge the party of everyone not conforming to their lawlessness, their lack of adherence to the Republican Party platform for guidance in governance, and their outright hatefulness. What they have created is not a strong party. They have created an exclusive party. They have created a corrupt party.
Commented: Friday, January 16th, 2026 @ 10:39 pm
By: Van Zant
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Van Sant….or should we say Adam ONeal….Your ilk has done more to destroy the Republican Party in this County more than Democrats could dream to do.
Youre followers have been used and fooled by you and Hoods personal vendettas and is quite sad. The Beaufort County Republican Party is so much stronger without you and Hoods anger for self-promotion. Go enjoy Belhaven ! The real Republicans are in charge!
Commented: Friday, January 16th, 2026 @ 7:35 pm
By: Brandon
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TBT like the Party Chairperson is distorting the plans of organization: State and County. I don't know if this is being uninformed or being dishonest.
In item 1. It is impossible for a serving public official to resign his ex-officio status as long as he is a serving public official. In item 3. of the State Plan there is only a claim by the Chairperson (and her controversial acting "private investigator" in the shadows) that any of this occurred. Both Mrs. Knight and Mrs. Clark deny all of it. At that time, they were actually working for Mrs. Clark's election in the nonpartisan Washington municipal race. Mrs. Calrk is a Republican candidate. Why are the accused denied a hearing? As always, these pronouncements have been made by the Chairperson, while completely leaving out the Executive Committee and due process. Leaving out the Executive Committee is standard fare for these characters. There is a long list of violations that significant numbers of the Executive Committee want addressed. The leadership has stalled these efforts for months. In the interim, the Chairperson and her group are concocting ways to reduce the number of honest and knowledgeable executive committee members. That is what is going on now. People that will not work in good faith with the rules of an organization should not have leadership roles in the organization. Weak committees in past years have allowed these people to become more and more brazen in their violations of party organization rules. These people did not like the results of the last county convention and the addition of new executive committee members so much that they so far have left the committee out entirely. The only violations I can see are the violations of party rules by the Chairperson and the cabal known as the "Victory Committee." These infractions are very serious infractions.
Commented: Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 @ 8:00 pm
By: Van Zant
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Truth be Told, Your name is now "Lie to be Told". Stop shooting from the hip and get the facts. The PAC no longer exists. Illegal money is not being raised by me or us.
Read all of the Beaufort County Plan of Organization. Get the facts. Stop distorting the truth. Sometimes it is better to keep quiet and no one will know how uninformed you really are.
Commented: Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 @ 6:30 am
By: Hood Richardson
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E. FORFEITURE OF OFFICIAL PRIVILEGES
1. Removal or Resignation from Committees Any current or former officer or member of a Precinct Committee, County Executive Committee, District Committee, State Executive Committee or State Central Committee who, for any reason, is removed or resigned from said position shall forfeit all rights and privileges in any way connected with that position. 3. Automatic Resignation. Any Committee member or officer of a County, District or State Republican Executive Committee campaigning in person, on social media, or in any other manner for a candidate, in any race, who is a not a member of the Republican Party and is running in opposition to a member of the Republican Party, shall have been deemed to have automatically resigned from the Committee and any position. In addition, no Committee member or officer shall serve as a treasurer or member of a campaign committee for any candidate, in any race, if that candidate is not a member of the Republican Par
Commented: Tuesday, January 13th, 2026 @ 8:21 pm
By: Truth Be Told
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Wow, Hood sure has Ms Garris in his head. I reached out to her to recommend a law firm for a consult for a defamation, slander, libel lawsuit. According to the State Board of Elections, your club no longer exists but you are still raising money. That’s a big no no. The only people you oppose are republicans. Makes you wonder…you are also being monitored.
Commented: Tuesday, January 13th, 2026 @ 8:43 pm
By: Truth Be Told
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It seems like Chairwoman Garris & Company are using this illegal and unaccountable "Victory Committee" to plan and spend on pet projects without Beaufort County Executive Committee approval. While doing this they are placing the Beaufort County Republican Party label on the unauthorized actions. They have in effect created a de facto political action committee paid for by the county Republican Party and using the authority of the Beaufort County Republican Party which was not given.
It appears that Garris & Friends are doing what they are accusing others of doing and then demanding innocent people "automatically resign" with no due process so they cannot bring her to account for her abuse of power. She ignores all legitimate committee functions, including hearings for people she says are off the committee because of her pronouncements. She has made a mockery of the plan of organization. The legitimate authority of the Beaufort County Republican Party comes from the advice and consent of the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee and not some secret unauthorized cabal of characters. The things going on here constitute fraud on a multitude of levels. From what I'm hearing, I doubt this can be sorted out without honest outside arbitration.
Commented: Tuesday, January 13th, 2026 @ 4:37 pm
By: Van Zant
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