Comments for Washington, N.C., Deserves Better Than This | Eastern NC Now

Rino, you are so right! Joe Davis needs some seasoning but at least he did not deceive the voters the way Max has, a true democrat who lied to the voters and said he was a Republican!

Commented: Thursday, April 16th, 2026 @ 9:36 pm By: MakeWashGreat

Washington govt has some serious in-your-face issues, but we wouldnt know it by looking only at this forum where the favorite subject is Hood.
I'm thinking is this the most important issue locally? I'm thinking no...that it's a diversion...look over here at this shiny thing. Dont look at what th City is doing in the darkness. They hired a city manager w/out a public Council vote as required by law. They stopped Davis from talking twice (Monday) using a point of order. Then they voted to remove him from 2 committees that he had been appointed to. You think "they" are out to get Hood, but even more so out to get Davis. He is being erased as the SovietUnion use to do to the regime's enemies. Davis said things in public...but the secret cabal, said u cant do tht & we will show u the power we hav.
It may even be the GOP Victory committee leading this assault, showing they would rather u talk abt Hood. Remember when Garris/Kidwell were callin 4 resignations.
Is Robinson still n th hospital?

Commented: Thursday, April 16th, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By: Washingtonian

One thing that struck me on the recruitment of both a new county manager and a new city manager was that there was no effort to bring anyone in with management experience from the private sector. I think many taxpayers would find private sector management experience a plus in running government more efficiently.

Having spent five years during the Jim Martin administration as part of the management team of the largest department of NC state government, I remember that all of our top level deparment management came from the private sector, NOT from government. Our department had a $3 Billion budget and 18,000 employees, a much larges operation than local governments, yet we had no one in top departmental management with those Masters of Public Administration degrees that local governments covet in their management staff. Having also worked several months into the Hunt administration as a consultant, their management staff in the department also came from the private sector.

Private sector management experience obviously works fine in state government, so why is it not a resource to be tapped for local government?

The problem lies in local governments using their state associations to seek applicants, and those groups are wired into career bureaucrats. A smart local government would also advertize where potential applicants with private sector management experience could learn of the vacancy and respond. Our local governments are not doing that.

The larger the pool of applicants, the better the available choices will be.

Even though the state pays for local school superintendents and therefore has more of a say in qualifications, they allow local school boards to hire applicants who have a bachelors degree and four years of management experience who do not have education related education or experience. Some years ago, Wake County hired a retired army general as their school superintendent under those standards, whose management experience came from the military, and he proved a good school superintendent. .

Commented: Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 @ 8:46 pm By: Steven P. Rader

It's clear to me that none of the very vocal people here watched the City Council meeting Monday. If they had, they would surely have something to say about the disgraceful and "premeditated" way Joe Davis was treated by the 3 Amigos. They appeared to be "organized" in their attempt to burn Davis to the ground. If one doesn't approve of Davis, then if they are being honest, one would also disapprove of the revenge tactics seen Monday, especially by Perreault. Yes, if Washington is broken, it's getting even more broken by the day. People should be able to disagree, without becoming mean and openly hateful.

See at: facebook.com (facebook.com/CityOfWashingtonNC/videos)

Commented: Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 @ 11:04 am By: RoadKill

I think the good people of the City and the County, for the most part, have had enough of the kayfabe and political theatrics; they are ready for the whole system to implode on itself and for the cards fall as they will.

Beating people over the head with religion (Ra-Legion) and pushing Zionist shills are just two of the many things that have screwed the GOP. Grocery and gas aren't coming down, healthcare is getting worse and the working man/woman sees the deck is stacked.

There are still Republicans that will tell you prices are coming but those of us who don't live in Bizarroworld know otherwise. It's all a joke and only those who desperately want to belong are the ones keeping this monster on life support.

Commented: Monday, April 13th, 2026 @ 1:48 pm By: John Valley

"Woke" is a term that is equivalent to "far left" or even "Marxist". There is not a dimes worth of difference between those three terms. At least Washington is through with the Sadler spendthrift police state. Using the city police to spy on his political opponents is downright un-American. Tazpayers are still bearing the cost of his overblown tax and spend policies.

But we deserve a city council that will reject those policies and their advocates like Greenville resident Tyre who is sitting on washington's council. Tyre represents the excesses of Sadlerism on the present council and he should be shunned politically. And we deserve a city manager who will run the city efficiently and get rid of the Sadler excesses, and the failed bureaucrat they have chosen is NOT that person.

Commented: Sunday, April 12th, 2026 @ 9:32 am By: Conservative Voter

Instead of a bureaucrat, if we want to clean up the mess in Washington, it would have been much better to bring in someone with private sector management experience. If they insisted on government management experience, then Virginia state government would have been a good place to look as there are certain to be lots of Youngkin administration officials being shown the door by the incoming radical Spanberger crowd.

Commented: Saturday, April 11th, 2026 @ 7:30 pm By: John Steed

It looks like no matter how badly a city manager screws up one place, some other city will still hire him. With this dude's record, he ought to be unemployable as a city manager. I would like to know the inside story on how we are now stuck with this arrogant bureaucrat..

Tyre is still mad about the last election and wants this city council to fail. It is clear where he is coming from. But what about the others?

Commented: Saturday, April 11th, 2026 @ 7:30 am By: Bubba

In contrast to the City of Washington's hustle to bring forth a new city manager, Beaufort County's Government has also tentatively selected a new county manager, and it is my understanding that the prospective county manager candidate has agreed to the negotiated terms offered by a consensus of the Beaufort County Commissioners

The actual public reveal of said candidate, and probable finalizing vote in the affirmative of that selection will be accomplished at a future public meeting, where all will be publicly divulged, and a public vote taken in hopes of a successful conclusion of a process that will take over 8 months to conclude from start to finish.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 10:02 pm By: Stan Deatherage

JohnSS,
According to the Facebook posted by Joe Davis and the letter he cited from Mayor Ellen Brabo, Jonathan N. Rorie has already officially been hired.
Color me puzzled that she had to "announce" this decision to a voting member.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 3:53 pm By: Washingtonian

ThinkingItThroughNC — I respect the instinct to be fair, I do. But at some point "let's hear both sides" becomes a shield for people who are counting on the public's reasonableness to run out the clock. The vote is Monday I thought? Perreault and Tyre have had months to address the Roberson situation publicly and they have said exactly nothing to fire him. That silence IS their response. Waiting for an accounting that these two have shown zero intention of giving is how this kind of thing gets waved through while good people are still deliberating.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 3:44 pm By: OldNorthMarket

What Washington needed as a city manager was someone with a sharp pencil able to cut through all the bloat and waste, cut spending, and cut taxes. We need someone with a good track record of doing just that. Instead, they give us a guy who is clearly a bureaucrat's bureaucrat. That is what Washington does NOT need. We have had way too much spending under the previous regime and a lousy city manager who was a big part of the problem.

Tyre was also a big part of the problem that got us in this mess, and any elected official who kisses his ass is absolutely worthless.

This is all so sickening.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 2:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer