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and m yetay salvage Berger who is narrowly losing his district

RH: Yeah, I saw that piece being worked in this traditionally low turnout election, along with some other poorly considered strategies worked within the dysfunctional Beaufort County GOP, also tied into the Armstrong juggernaut... And his success.

The great irony here is that the Beaufort County GOP, who did absolutely nothing to turn out the vote, actually aided in getting Keith Kidwell beat in this primary, which he might have prevailed with a stronger turnout.

My race was a good indicator of such as my vote total was about as normal as it ever has been, with this year like-minded candidate Travis Martin sharing and borrowing in what voting largess I might have gotten if he had not been in the race.

Historically, I always run much stronger in the General Election, which I will need to do to win, and, or win big. I have much time to campaign until November.
Commented: Monday, March 9th, 2026 @ 12:09 pm By: Stan Deatherage
The only potential corruption I see, Washingtonian, among the two House candidates is Armstrong's ties to Monsanto and its cancer-causing product RoundUp. Defending RoundUp and Monsanto was about the only real issue commitment Armstrong made in the campaign. Why is that corrupt? Because Armstrong's seed business has very deep business ties to Monsanto. He grows genetically modified seeds designed to be used with RoundUp.

If Armstrong starts actually pushing Monsanto's agenda in Raleigh, there will be formal ethics complaints waiting for him. But why else did he even run?

And that half million spent against Kidwell by that dark money special interest PAC raises questions, too. How much of that came from Monsanto?

Armstrong should be dubbed the "RoundUp RINO".
Commented: Monday, March 9th, 2026 @ 11:42 am By: Rino Hunter
I believe special interest PACs did play a significant role in this primary. Another factor was our non-functioning local Republican Party that played a key role in the conservative bloodbath also.

Kidwell's insistence on building a local Republican Party around him where he could be the only conservative and all others were seen as threats came back to bite him. Ironically, a healthy local GOP might have saved him. I wonder if there is more than megalomania to the Kidwell story, but I just don't know. It's a shame though.

The other consequence of a sick GOP characterized by pushing conservatives away and welcoming suspect liberals in was the creation and emboldening of characters like the Washington Walkers. Geniuses like Garris, J. Forrest and others fostered this atmosphere within the party in order to fulfil corrupt aims, to attack people they did not like, and for outright stupidness. Embracing the hostile ultra-liberal Walkers into the party was like dragging a Trojan Horse into the organization. Real Republicans were hurt by these terrible decisions. If this is party building give me no more of it. Maybe the local GOP can rebuild itself over the timespan of the next two county conventions. Maybe not. Presently, they are nothing good and should be avoided in every way other than supporting those within trying to survive and save the good worth saving.

In the meantime, conservatives need to rally around the conservative survivors like incumbents Deatherage and Hickman. Also, the conservative heroes of the Washington municipal elections and other municipal new faces should be remembered and rallied around. There are at least two very promising and accomplished candidates that did not make it through the primary this time but have much to offer. This core and the addition of conservative officeholders not up for election this time is a very impressive group to build around. Beaufort County needs to start. We have a lot of broken stuff to fix.
Commented: Saturday, March 7th, 2026 @ 7:36 am By: Van Zant
That background on Carolyn and Randy Walker is interesting. I had no idea there was that much venom on the school board until I saw them in action at Chocowinity Fire Station badmouthing two of Carolyn's school board colleagues for hours. Apparently they kept up their rants against Hickman and Rader later at the Board of Elections. If I had not been there working for a candidate in a different race, I don't think I would have believed that an elected official and her husband would be running down colleagues of the same party so viciously.

There are comments about ideological differences, but what I observed appeared to be more personal than ideological. I guess it could be both.

I have never watched the school board meetings on TV. Is there as much personal animosity on display there as on the county commission?. It looks to me that Mrs. Walker has as big a chip on her shoulder as anyone on the county commission from what I witnessed election day.
Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 11:08 am By: piratefan
CT, I just dont consider internal corruption to be "petty."

And besides that, "sour apples" is unbecoming.

Its the reason that "we cant have nice things" here at home.
Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 10:29 am By: Washingtonian
Sorry, Washingtonian, but the only ones going to get representation from Armstrong are the special interests in Raleigh that dumped half a million dollars into an independent campaign to buy him the seat. That is who he owes, BIG TIME, and who he will represent. If you watched his campaign, his own interests were clearly tunnel vision on one issue, Big Ag, so that is the other group he will represent. Anybody else? Not so much.

You are clearly more focused on petty internal political party matters, not the big picture of conservative principles. You and Phil Berger are obviously both overjoyed that the strongest voice of conservatism in the General Assembly will be silenced by the crooked special interests.
Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 8:42 am By: Concerned Taxpayer
I am sure all the illegal aliens are happy, too, Washingtonian. One of the leading supporters of immigration enforcement is being replaced by a big farmer, whose industry business model relies on exploiting illegal alien labor.
Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 8:11 am By: borderhawk
Hallelujah! Darren Armstrong defeated Keith Kidwell!!

I havent been this happy since Trump won the Presidency!
I'm thinking this change will end the local GOP Executive committee tyranny.

AND, maybe now, we ordinary folks can get some sincere assistance from our NC District 79 Representative.
THANK YOU Representative Armstrong for serving!
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 11:06 pm By: Washingtonian
The behavior of the Walkers, Carolyn and Randy is shocking but not surprising. They may call themselves Republicans but they are still what they were most of their lives - functional Democrats. You can see it in how both of them govern. They are Undocumented Democrats. Carolyn Walker is trying to build herself a little power clique of liberals on the School Board. Randy votes with the Democrats on the county commission.

Even with their brand of deceptive politics, though, smearing conservative colleagues from other districts to voters, is beneath what I would have expected even from the Walkers.

Hickman and Rader have both been Republican leaders, both of them former county GOP chairmen and congressional district GOP chairmen, with deep roots in the GOP. The Walkers on the other hand are latecoming opportunists.

One remembers the grifting that Randy Walker did in his first GOP commissioner campaign (he had already tried and failed as a Democrat). He begged Hood Richardson to buy him signs, which Richardson came up with the money to do. Then he hired Ashley Woolard to run his internet ad campaign, and ended up stiffing Woolard not only for Woolard's own fee but also for the money Woolard advanced to buy the ads. That reflects the true character of the Walkers. They are not of character to be attacking others.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 9:55 pm By: Rino Hunter
When I hear about how these RINOs are ruining my county and my country, it makes me real mad.

Me and my buds will vote big in the November for the real Republicans.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 10:54 am By: William Bonney
Mr. Van Zant, from what I know about politics, with this county GOP, this is no way to stock a government with the best elected leaders available.

They truly disgust me from what I read here on this publication.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 10:45 am By: Government Man
RMB: The Beaufort County GOP not only did nothing about the county commission frauds they embraced them. Furthermore, they took every opportunity to shun the actual conservative Republicans, not only on the county commission but also in other positions. The local GOP is not looking after party interests. Rather they are operating as an exclusive club of opportunistic insiders. They do not work for the benefit of Beaufort County or for the benefit of Republican Party principles. They do way more harm than good.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 9:32 am By: Van Zant
Seems to me that the Walkers need to learn that "what goes around comes around". Hopefully someone will teach that to both of them.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 9:12 am By: Bubba
I am truly sorry that good Conservative Republican candidates like: Steve Rader (who I voted for), and Travis Martin (who I also voted for after I absolutely knew Commissioner Deatherage would make it through the primary) did not win their rightful places to be our nominees for the governing seats that they aspired to seek. I hate the thought of limiting unaffiliated voters in our primaries, but, if the local GOP cannot get its act together, and start functioning as real Republicans, closing the primary only to Republicans might have to be the case here in Beaufort County.

On the bright side, I am thankful that Conservative Candidate Martin is now working with Commissioner Deatherage on his campaign in the general election. I have always voted for Stan since I learned of his true Conservative values and voting record (after moving here from a blue state), but I just could not resist voting for Mr. Martin to help Stan and Mr. Richardson gain a majority of real Republicans on that board, where the fake Republicans, Frankie Waters and Randy Walker, are NO different from the the Leftists. They are truly frauds, and the Beaufort County GOP should have done something about them years ago.

Now, because of Republican frauds like Randy Walker and Frankie Waters we can't elect real Republicans here in Beaufort County, and I hear they were behind it along with that sorry excuse of local political party, the Beaufort County GOP taking up space in replace of a real Republican local party that could do some good.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 8:39 am By: Richard Marvin Butkus
"Sadly evil is no longer hiding, its out in the open." - CountryGirl1411

CountryGirl1411, I understand your true words on a regular basis, and I see it everywhere: locally, at the state level, across our nation, and in our World at large.

It is incumbent as Christians that we not only humbly ask for our Saviour's grace, but we endeavor to improve His world by whatever good means available to eliminate evil as we can, for Satan exists among us, and we are his "Christian Soldiers" ... Eternally.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 8:14 am By: Stan Deatherage
Carolyn and Randy Walker are examples of politicians who cannot get elected in their own party so they fake it and put on a facade of being in the other party. Randy Walker ran for commissioner unsuccessfully as a Democrat, something he always had been and lost. Then he put on a facade as a "Republican" and won. But he still functions as a Democrat, voting mostly with the Democrats on the county commission.

Then there is Carolyn Walker. If you watch the school board meetings online, it is clear that she is the most vocal liberal on the board, much more so than the school board's only admitted Democrat, Eltha Booth. It is not surprising that she and Randy are out opposing the board's conservative members. In the Bath school district, I am told that she was telling board member Shreve that she supporeted him but was really helping one of his opponents, the former school teacher.

The Walkers are complete phonies, nothing but liberal political opportunists masquerading as Republicans. Yes, they do need to be successfully primaried next election by real Republicans. Given the misfires by the Conservative Club in this election, hopefully someone with more political skills will help a challenge. The Walkers need to go.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 7:13 am By: Conservative Voter
piratefan: According to my sources the Walkers are establishing quite a pattern of recruiting candidates for and campaigning in other school districts than their own. They are inviting retaliation and it would be warranted.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 6:05 am By: Van Zant
Thank you Stan. I do understand both sides of it. 50 years ago when I turned 18, my granddad told me I don't need a party telling my how to think, what to believe or how to vote, that I know my values and try to pick people as close to those values as possible. I have always been unaffiliated. After observing the GOP in Beaufort County and how they act I cannot see that changing.

When I moved to this area I went to register to vote at the court house was asked if I wanted to register democrat or republican, I said neither, the lady said I had to register one or the other I told her no I didn't she said you want to be unaffiliated and spit out the word like she had something nasty in her mouth, I said yes that's it thank you. I still laugh when I think of her look of discuss saying unaffiliated.

When I was an employee of Beaufort County years ago, my boss informed me I would have to register as a democrat or be fired. She said she had to, I told her no she didn't she chose to. I told her I would NOT change my voter registration and if I was fired over it I would go to every media outlet from Norfolk to Wilmington to Raleigh and tell exactly what happened Never heard another word about it.

As I said I am all in favor of the Republican party closing the voting to republicans only if they pay 100% of their closed primary and zero tax dollar are used. Even if they close it, I will chose not to change my registration. I will miss voting for strong conservatives in the primary, but I will still vote or with hold a lot of votes in the democrat primary as it will be hard to find anyone in that party that morally or spiritually I could vote for. Come November for me that is also going to be a problem, it will come down to the lesser of the two evils and sadly many that will be on the ballot in the general election, there will a lot of evil running. Sadly evil is no longer hiding its out in the open.
Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 4:56 am By: Countrygirl1411
There is more to those School Board races than networking with Armstrong. I worked as a volunteer in a race for a different office at Chocowinity Fire Station where Gilead and Chocowinity voted. School Board member Carolyn Walker and her husband County Commissioner Randy Walker actively worked the voters for the opponents of Carolyn's board colleagues Charles Hickman and Steven Rader for much of the day. Carolyn Walker was working against Rader and Randy Walker against Hickman. Both were not only promoting the opponents but actively smearing the incumbents. I did not see that level of negative campaigning from any other candidate.

Today, I talked to a friend who was at the Board of Elections as the votes were announced. I am told the Walkers were very loud in smearing both Hickman and Rader at that event. This type of behavior by the Walkers is uncalled for. .
Commented: Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 @ 8:49 pm By: piratefan
Countrygirl1411: Bubba is right and you are right ... I will explain.

Bubba is right because our primary was greatly influenced by Democrats, who had switched to unaffiliated at some point in the past; the next step in intellectual fraud in this political paradigm, these Left leaning members of the electorate voted in the Republican primary did choose the most liberal Republican candidates on the ballot as their moderate champions. This sorry process has been, and is facilitated by a concerted effort by the RINO element here within the local GOP, and other extra non Conservative actors.

I knew there was a fix afoot by my observations of the mainstream weird at the polling places when I spoke with a small variety of the people I engaged in conversation, those people voting on the Republican ballot, thereby bringing forth a very unreal element to this decision making process of Republicans selecting their candidates. After the election, I studied the voting pattern of electing - who won and who lost - whereby there was an evident pattern that developed, and I am not the only person noticing its effect upon the selection process.

Countrygirl1411, you are right because the local Beaufort County GOP does messed up stuff like this to support their favored candidates. Since the local GOP is infested with RINOs and RINO Whisperers, they tend to support those Republicans that will 'work with Democratic Socialists to pass issues' important to their natures as the so-called Republicans they are destroying our local party.

Understanding this realty of this abhorrent process of recruiting fake Republicans, I see, first hand, its damage, and I am wise enough to understand the obvious; but, the conundrum remains: Why would one join the electorate as a registered Republican in Beaufort County? Has the local Beaufort County GOP given you, in particular, any reason to become such?

Countrygirl1411, unaffiliated voters like yourself must answer that question, and, I, for one, cannot make a salient, perfected argument for you to do so in favor of the local GOP, and become a Republican here in Beaufort County.

I became a Republican nearly 4 decades ago when that decision for me was much simpler. Being a Republican in the wake Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich made sense to me then. It makes great sense to me now becauses there are so many strong Republicans of honour and wisdom that transcends the common RINO and RINO Whisperer, where all of these great political figures have one strong trait in common - none of them are RINOs, nor do they tolerate such behavior as the political fraud that many of us know RINOism to be.
Commented: Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 @ 8:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage
Bubba, I am one of those "damned" unaffiliated voters. I have never been associated with any party but yet I vote very conservative and always have. Not all unaffiliated voters are evil.
I would support your suggestion only if the GOP pays 100% of the cost of their primary and no tax dollars goes towards the GOP primary. I think it would be interesting to see how people like Hood and Stan come out in the election without the support of some of those horrible unaffiliated voters, because I sure would be allowed to vote for them in the primary, and I always vote.
Commented: Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 @ 6:10 pm By: Countrygirl1411
I am very much looking forward to the general election in November. Newcomer Travis Martin, who ran an outstanding campaign for county commissioner, has now joined my campaign, and I am very much looking to soaring with great momentum in the November, 2026 election by working harder and smarter to win every Conservative vote available.
Commented: Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 @ 1:48 pm By: Stan Deatherage
Primary day was a sad day for conservatives in Beaufort County and many places in the state. What is needed is to get those damned Unaffiliateds OUT of GOP primaries. They corrupt the process of choosing a REPUBBLICAN nominee.
Commented: Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 @ 11:22 am By: Bubba
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