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Valid questions. And if they're asked, i'm sure there will be an answer.I might not even agree with the answer.My point is that the way Mr Richardson conducts himself doesn't get to that answer.Because he turns everyone off, including people like me who might otherwise be natural allies.

Commented: Saturday, April 11th, 2026 @ 10:42 am By: Rational Observer

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

So, it took a year for the Executive Committee formed in the 2025 county convention to find out that the mysterious Victory Committee is composed of Paul Varcoe, Ashley Woolard, Keith Kidwell, Steve Rader, and Carolyn Garris with Greg Dority as a consultant.
Hum, three questions:
1) Why wasn't the Vice Chair brought in? That is an ex-officio member position for all committees.
2) What were those items authorized by the Victory Committee? Advice and consent is a function of the overall Executive Committee.
3) When, if ever, will the sub-committee report their activities to the elected Executive Committee?

Yeah, this is about as transparent as mud.

Commented: Saturday, April 11th, 2026 @ 6:44 am By: Van Zant

There were two not present. Paul Varcoe and Ashley Woolard. Steve Radar, Carolyn Garris, and Keith Kidwell. I know because I asked who the missing members were.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By: Rational Observer

I've been asking people I know on the Executive Committee about that disclosure of Victory Committee members at the last meeting at a residence. They all said that when the sub-committee was brought up, the Chair did ask the Victory Committee members to stand. My sources said that in the crowded residence they could see some and could not identify others. When exec. committee members asked about clarification of some that were not there, no response followed. I'm told that Mr. Hickman complained about the lack of transparency and then there was a discussion that wandered away from anything pertinent.

To put this all in perspective, that meeting was in March 2026. This Executive Committee was formed from the Beaufort County Republican Convention of 2025. It has been a year, and this committee is still not sure about who is on the Victory Committee and what they have improperly authorized. I'm not even sure the Executive Committee before the 2025 convention knew.

There is plenty of spinning going on, but it is clear to me that this is not a healthy Republican Party Executive Committee. People are going to great lengths to keep things hidden over extended time periods.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 8:43 pm By: Van Zant

Here we go again. My name is out there. Those of you who are lying are doing it in secret. You will not be held accountable by the public for your deception.

The Conservative Club has never wanted to be associated with the Republican Party because of what is going on now. Several Chairmen of the Beaufort County Republican Party have tried to have the State Republican Party shut us down during the past 20 years. They cannot do it because we have deliberately not affiliated with the Republican party.

We are free to speak the truth.

You are lying about my being uncivil. Your definition of uncivil is any disagreement with you warped socialist thinking. The disruptions are caused by he you and Queen Garris when your world stops turning because I have anything to say.

Another lie. A list of members of the secret Victory Committee has never been given tome or the Executive Committee. This Executive Committee never appointed the Victory Committee. This isa serious violation

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 4:39 pm By: Hood Richardson

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

The Conservative Club is not a recognized affiliate organization of the Republican National Committee or State Party; therefore, it does not have standing within the party structure. The State Plan of Organization and the Beaufort County GOP Plan of Organization grant the Chairman the discretion to call meetings.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 3:03 pm By: Truth be Told

And you would have been there too ... but you can't be civil so no business can be conducted due to the disruptions you repeatedly cause. You also endorsed non-Republican candidates in a race with other Republicans which unless you are totally oblivious (and you are quite astute so I don't believe this to be the case) violates the state rules and is grounds for automatic resignation from the Executive Committee. You continue to act like a woke Democrat that wants to play the victim. You are not a victim sir.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 2:49 pm By: Rational Observer

Well now Mr Richardson, you are just flat out lying. I was in attendance when the victory committee members were announced. And so was your wife by the way. So unless she isn't telling you who they were, you're playing a game right now which doesn't surprise me.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 2:31 pm By: Rational Observer

Brabo.... Moved here five years ago. Bought a house in a residential neighborhood. Lied on her special permit application. Neighbors complain. She goes before the board under oath. Lies again. Lies upon lies upon lies build up. She's basically running a commercial business in the heart of a residential neighborhood. And now she plays the VICTIM of the problem she herself created. She's breaking the law every day she is open. She's a fraud, and a liar, and needs to resign. She is the only sitting mayor in the entire country suing their own city. Washington deserves better than this unhinged, unethical woman. She's a traitor to the city she serves.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 1:01 pm By: Woke