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I'm hearing in the community that two Beaufort County Commissioners are in favor of Data Centers: Deatherage and Walker.
This better not be true. If it is true, that faction of Republicans will be Audi 5000-ed by the public for several years to come. If you want to screw yourself, support a Data Center and agree with paying $4.00 for gas.
Commented: Saturday, September 12th, 2026 @ 7:17 am
By: John Valley
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The origin of these fake Republicans being able to be as politically corrupt as they are lies in the leadership of the Beaufort County Republican Party. Only fifth columnists would stand for this kind of political corruption. We need to sanitize the Beaufort County Republican Party.
Remember the Victory Committee: Carolyn Garris, Ashley Woolard, Steve Rader, Paul Varcoe, Keith Kidwell and Greg Dority. Look at what people do not what they say.
Commented: Saturday, September 12th, 2026 @ 7:35 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The campaign signs of Ed Booth and John Edwards use the same color scheme, a blue background with white letters, even a similar shade of blue. Isn't blue considered a Democrat color?
Just sayin'
Commented: Friday, September 11th, 2026 @ 5:20 pm
By: Bubba
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The situation with our county commission race illustrates how badly "limited voting" is serving Beaufort County. With two liberals not up this year - admitted Democrat Langley and closet Democrat / fake "Republican" Randy Walker - and two conservatives, it will take electing two pro-taxpayer candidates this election to get a majority. As the only Democrat running, Booth is likely a shoe-in, which means taxpayer oriented candidates have to win both of the other seats.
If we had the three votes we would have in a normal election system, the choices would be clear - Deatherage, Woolard, and Edwards. With only two votes, it would be Deatherage and Woolard. But we only have one, and so have to pick the best and keep our fingers crossed that the second seat goes to someone who can work with the conservatives. With Deatherage's strong record, that has to be him, but we also have to hope Woolard overcomes Edwards. Of course, limited voting itself is another reason to vote Deatherage as he is the commissioner trying to reopen that bad deal struck by former commissioners, and use a recent US Supreme Court case as the trigger to do that. Deatherage's proposal makes great common sense for the people of Beaufort County, but Democrats Langley and Booth and liberal fake "Republicans" Walker and Waters voted it down. Waters and Walker marked themselves as 5th columnists by voting not to seek legal assistance to get us out from under limited voting. They betrayed the county and they betrayed Republicans. The fact that Edwards is being supported by fake Republicans Frankie Water sand Randy Walker, both of whom were active Democrats for years before they conveniently did a fake "switch" to "Republican" for opportunistic reasons, speaks volumes about Edwards. Edwards appears to be cut from the same cloth as Walker and Waters.. While still better than Booth, he is not in the same leaague as Deatherage or Woolard.
Commented: Friday, September 11th, 2026 @ 2:29 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Taxes and spending are far away the most important issue in our county commission race. We need to end the spendthrift tax-and-spend coalition now running our county commission. As we look at candidates, we need to look at 3 things: 1) how strong are their state positions on spending and taxes, 2) what is their past record on taxes and spending, and 3) do they have a consistent position on taxes and spending other than in public office?
As to their campaign positions, both Stan Deatherage and Ashley Woolard have taken strong positions against excessive spending and high taxes. John Edwards says some of the right things but will not make a solid commitment. Ed Booth will not make a commitment on taxes at all. On actual records in office, Stan Deatherage has voted against every tax increase offered and for every tax cut offered. Ed Booth is the opposite, and has voted against every tax cut offered and for every tax increase offered. The other two have not been in office to have a record. Outside of public office, Stan Deatherage, Ashley Woolard, and Ed Booth have been involved in community of political activity for years. All of them have been consistent in their positions on tax and spending issues in that context - Deatheage and Woolard for less spending and lower taxes, and Booth for more spending and higher taxes. Edarerds just popped up at filing time. Nobody had ever heard of him as a public figure before. This was much like Frankie waters and Randy Walker, who talked a good game to a point but quickly turned into tax and spend politicians. He seems to be more of the same. When it comes to who we can trust on taxes and spending, I would rank them in this order: 1) Stan Deatherage - strong commitment, strong record, consistent position over time 2) Ashley Woolard - strong commitement, consistent position over time, but no record inoffice 3) John Eadwards - weak commitment, no longtime position, no record in office 4) Ed Booth - no commitment, record and longtime position on the wrong side The bad thing is, that we need to get two of these elected to get a pro-taxpayer majority on the commission, but with limited voting, we only have one vote.
Commented: Thursday, September 10th, 2026 @ 5:35 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Tillis has been a terrible "5th column" traitor, but even worse has been Phil Berger. Berger sold his soul for cash to the special interests, and as a result has helped Roy Cooper get his top liberal agenda items through the General Assembly - repealing the Bathroom privacy law (HB2), adopting the NC Green New Deal (HB951), and passing the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Fortunately, conservatives took Berger out in his primary this year, in spite of all his special interest money.
Unfortunately, on his way out, Undocumented Democrat Phil Berger targeted a number of conservatives around the state, and special interest money took some of them down. Berger tried to rind and fund candidates against all the Freedom Caucus leadership. One of those was here in our own 79th district House seat, where we will now have a warmed over Marc Basnight Democrat, now posturing as a "Republican" instead of the hard charging head of the conservative Freedom Caucus.We will not be able to do anythng about that for another two years.
Commented: Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 @ 11:22 am
By: Rino Hunter
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