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I don't co-operate with mafia tactics.

Commented: Friday, December 26th, 2025 @ 2:37 pm By: Van Zant

VZ, unfortunately, the Beaufort County Republican Party is rife with personality conflicts, and that is the root cause of what you refer to. When it comes to conservative policy issues, Kidwell is rock solid. and that is the important thing. Armstrong clearly is NOT given the people he has around him and those who recruited him to run. There is an old saying that "birds of a feather flock together" and all you have to do is look at the flock around Armstrong - Frankie Waters, Jimmy Dixon, Steve Troxler, Phil Berger. Kidwell may not be perfect, but he is head and shoulders above Armstrong on what matters most - conservative policy.

Commented: Friday, December 26th, 2025 @ 2:06 pm By: Conservative Voter

Here is part II of the Shrimpgate video. It shows how things work in Raleigh, and why we do not need legislative candidates tied to the special interests and to the RINO leadership. It was the good guys who stopped this travesty, and Kidwell was a leader of the good guys in the House, working with Bobby Hanig who was the leader of the good guys in the Senate. www.youtube.com

Commented: Friday, December 26th, 2025 @ 12:55 pm By: John Steed

The very LAST person who would listen to a local voter is someone recruited for this race by the RINO establishment in Raleigh, like liberal RINO senate boss Phil Berger and his House operative Jimmy Dixon, and that is Darren Armstrong.

I did not agree on Kidwell's involvement in the Stacey Davis situation, but that is not nearly as important as the disaster it would be to surrender our seat to someone who is recruited by the special interest Raleigh establishement whores Berger and Dixon. There were once rumors of STacey Davis running in this House primary, and if she had it would have been a different ball game because it would have been a race between two local conservatives. We do NOT need a local legislator dancing on the puppet strings of Berger and Dixon, which is exactly what Armstrong would be.

The problem Beaufort County Republicans have had is Democrats opportunistically switching to Republican, running for office, but still thinking like a Democrat. Frankie Waters is a prime example, and guess who that dirtbag is supporting, heavily, for NC House? Darren Armstrong. Other opportunists who have switched on paper but still functioned as Democrats include Randy and Carolyn Walker. Carolyn Walker has even brought another opportunist recent Democrat switcher into the game by recruiting Monica Davis to challenge a conservative school board member. Darren Armstrong was a Democrat and major Marc Basnight supporter when he lived in Hyde County. There is an old saying that the leopard cannot change his spots. Darren Armstong is just another phony like his sidekick Frankie Waters. They are two peas in a leftwing pod.

THere were three honchos at the front of the room in Darren Armstrong's fundraiser, Frankie Waters, Jimmy Dixon, and Steve Troxler. Troxler's political history also shows the shifty types of politicians around Armstrong. In 1998, when conservative Republican US Senator Lauch Faircloth, whose background was in farming, ran for reelection, Troxler was a big player for his liberal Democrat opponent, John Edwards, a snooty Raleigh lawyer. Instead of supporting fellow farmer Faircloth, Steve Troxler was chairman of Farmers for John Edwards. Troxler showed his true colors then and should not be trusted. Troxler has also shown his true colors as an opponent of gun rights, something he has in common with Armstrong recruiter Jimmy Dixon.

Commented: Friday, December 26th, 2025 @ 10:17 am By: Conservative Voter

RH, I'm "a little guy."
Kidwell wouldnt lift his little finger to even speak with me.

JUST SAY NO TO KIDWELL! We "little" people need change.

Commented: Thursday, December 25th, 2025 @ 7:42 pm By: RoadKill

Christmas just would not be the same with the "Christ" part.

I really enjoy finding a church to visit on Christmas Eve, especially if I am out of town. If my church family did so, I would stay there at home.

Commented: Friday, December 26th, 2025 @ 8:30 am By: Stan Deatherage

Phil Berger is worse than Basnight, but Basnight was pretty bad himself. Darren Armstrong was a big Basnight supporter when he lived in Hyde County, so it is no surprise that he is in league with Berger now. He seems attracted to power bullies like Basnight and Berger.

Those Shrimpgate videos show that Kidwell has been fighting hard for the little guys like our commercial fishermen against the powerful special interests. It is also telling that he also went to bat to save our raw milk farmers from this Jimmy Dixon thug.

BUt one can go back even farther to the Covid era and the medical fascism of Roy Cooper. Kidwell was the one who raised the money, recruited the plaintiffs, and hired the lawyers to get Cooper's closing of the churches ruled unconstitutional. Then he proceeded to do the same thing to get the courts to halt Cooper's shutdowns of various types of businesses.

Kidwell has quite a record of fighting for the little guy against the special interests and even against the governor, and winning. We need to keep him in Raleigh, not send a special interest recruit to replace him.

Commented: Thursday, December 25th, 2025 @ 7:13 pm By: Rino Hunter

Hoping this primary takes out the trash in Raliegh and we replace King Berger, Corrupt Dixon, and Merciless Brent Jackson, all seemingly cool with putting small business owners out of business. Darren Armstrong needs to withdraw. Hopefully he's realized by now he's being used by the slime in Raleigh.

Commented: Thursday, December 25th, 2025 @ 1:10 pm By: Conservative

Glad to see Trump and Rubio standing up for free speech. This is the reverse of the Biden years when Biden's radicalized USAID was lavishly funding the pro-censorship anti-free speech organizations around the world. Renowned law professor and free speech advocate Jonathan Turley called the Biden administration the most anti-free speech administration in US history.

Commented: Thursday, December 25th, 2025 @ 4:23 pm By: Steven P. Rader

It's a Christmas Miracle!

Commented: Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 @ 6:00 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The NC shrimp industry is not the only one Kidwell helped save from the special interest vultures in the legislature like Phil Berger.

Kidwell also played a major role in saving the raw milk industry from Duplin County RINO Jimmy Dixon's bill that would have shut it down. Many health conscience people prefer raw milk over the pasteurized variety and we have farmers around the state that provide it to them. Dixon's legislation would have put these farmers out of business and ruined them in short order. Although a farmer himself, Dixon had no qualms about throwing fellow farmers under the bus to please a special interest with lots of dollars to distribute.

Kidwell and the Freedom Caucus went to work and organized the votes to stop Dixon's attempt to shut down our raw milk farmers. Dixon had to withdraw the bill and he was in such a snit that his special interest favor got undone, that he did not even pursue the rest of the bill.

The same Jimmy Dixon was the front man for Phil Berger in recruiting challengers to the Freedom Caucus leadership including Kidwell. Dixon bragged about recruiting Darren Armstrong and appeared for Armstrong's fundraiser. Dixon's working with Berger against House conservatives probably has a lot to do with Dixon's own butthurt from the Freedom Caucus shooting down Dixon's own attempt to do a favor for special interests while going along with the special interest's attempt to put some of his fellow farmers out of business. Dixon is the worst sort of scoundrel. He and his ilk do not belong in public office.

Commented: Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 @ 2:09 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer