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To see how effective the Victory Committee has been just look at the results. Most of the supported candidates have not turned out well. Look at our City Council. Look at our school board. Now we have a proposed new member for the County Commission whose claim to fame is running a golf tournament but a disaster as a leader in the republican party. The Executive Committee just appointed an interim member for the School Board that has a past record of being a teacher in leu of a person who has had management experience. So, we continue to have a rotten school system, shrinking population in our county, no growth direction, missed opportunities like our airport and the Southern part of our county development. The list goes on. Change the method, change the results. But we keep doing the thing of insanity. (Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.)

Commented: Monday, June 22nd, 2026 @ 1:48 pm By: Buzz Cayon

If this manager likes to cut government services, then there has been enough waste identified, that he could have done a heck of a lot more. But the bottom line, is we need our elected officials to stand up for us and tell the city manager to get stuffed if he does cut enough.

Commented: Monday, June 22nd, 2026 @ 10:13 am By: Rino Hunter

The new city manager might have helped a slight bit with your taxes but if you read his budget plan in it's entirety you will soon see that he's making up for it in charging the people higher inspection fees, higher electric, water & sewer bills, ect....

This new city manager has a reputation of taking on cities in distress.
In Camden SC which is a town smaller than Washington, he increased water & sewer up to twenty percent, then went after the retirees health insurance.
In Peachtree City Georgia his phrases were "we can't be all things to all people" and "cutting sacred cows when needed." Which sounds like some of the same phrases he's using here in Washington!"
In Peachtree City he cut senior services, library hours, pool & fieldhouse hours,no more city spring clean up, closed the city Convention & Visitors Bureau and a city clerk position. He took out twelve full time & six part time positions all the while his pay check was getting fatter. At that time he was the highest paid city manager in the state of Georgia! He doesn't care about Washington just like he never cared about any other city he's worked at! He only cares about collecting a BIG fat paycheck!

Commented: Monday, June 22nd, 2026 @ 9:26 am By: PK

I remember the liberal Walkers, Carolyn and Randy, campaigning hard at Chocowinity Fire Station against two conservative school board members, Hickman and Rader, but how were two defeated in the primary? Hickman won. Both Gilead and Chocowinity voted at the fire station, with Gilead split between Rader's and Hickman's districts, and part of Chocowinity in Hickman's. I think Rader's opponent waw one of those teachers union types, but not sure about Hickman's. Carolyn Walker was concentrating on Rader's race and Randy on Hickman's, supporting their opponents.

I agree that this woke mess out of our schools.

Commented: Sunday, June 21st, 2026 @ 9:48 am By: piratefan

Lock him up! Fauci screwed America.

Commented: Sunday, June 21st, 2026 @ 8:40 am By: Bubba

I think most people have the"First Baptist" mindset; we ain't going out there BUT it's their First amendment right as long as they don't bring you bodily harm.

Old testament doomtroopin' aint going to do anything but stir the turd.. especially if we're talking stuff from the Babylonian Talmud; that's some dark stuff, dude.

I think more people are concerned about the fact that the city makes the act of lowering taxes,to a sustainable reasonable rate, sound like something pertaining practicing the Dark Arts. It's baffling that nobody can see the Emperor doesn't have any clothes on.

Something's screwed up and it's screwed up bad enough that everyday is another episode of the Tiny Toon Adventures; it's beyond stupid.

Commented: Saturday, June 20th, 2026 @ 5:57 pm By: John Valley

Wow! NC Governor Josh Stein is even to the left of California's crazy Gov. Gavin Newsome in his disrespect of America. Newsome is not thumbing his nose at our country the way Stein is by boycotting our 250th anniversary state event. Is someone with such a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome as Stein clearly has mentally competent to serve as governor? Not agreeing with the person holding the office of the presidency is not a valid reason to refuse to participate in events honoring our country's 250th birthday, but then again, polls are showing a large percentage of Democrat voters don't like our country very much either. Clearly, Stein is one of them.

Commented: Saturday, June 20th, 2026 @ 1:23 pm By: Rino Hunter

This is an absolutely shameful act by Josh Stein, and an insult both to the state of North Carolina and to the United States. We need to kick this anti-American clown out of office in 2028.

Commented: Saturday, June 20th, 2026 @ 9:13 am By: Steven P. Rader

Van Zant, I agree that actions speak louder than words, and Stan has proven himself as a taxpayer champion for years. A proven record is one of the most important things in politics, and Stan has it.

The Democrat in the race is a proven spendthrift and taxer, the worst of the lot. John Edwards talks in a way that he seems to be on the right path, but if you listen to him closely, he always puts in a qualifier that avoids a real commitment to the position he is trying to imply. Politicians like that are not ones that can be trusted. Ashley Woolard says all the right things on taxes, but he has not been in a position to prove his commitment. He does make solid commitments, unlike Edwards, but has not yet been in a position to prove them.

Everything considered. with one vote in our crazy system, that will go to the proven fighter for the taxpayer, Stan Deatherage. If I had a second vote, it would go to Woolard. The absolute last choice would be the tax and spend Democrat.

Commented: Friday, June 19th, 2026 @ 9:15 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Why is a North Carolina governor secretly holding Muslim religious dinners in NC's Governors Mansion? Cooper was not known for holding Christian holiday dinners there.

Commented: Friday, June 19th, 2026 @ 1:49 pm By: Victoria

Michael Whatley was not my choice in the GOP primary for a variety of reasons, but he is light years better than "Radical Roy" Cooper, who seems to be Ilhan Omar without the skirt.

Commented: Friday, June 19th, 2026 @ 10:57 am By: Rino Hunter

The only person in the upcoming commission election with a real record on the subject of taxing is Deatherage. Others are just talk, and as we've seen time after time, talk is cheap.

Commented: Friday, June 19th, 2026 @ 9:36 am By: Van Zant