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Tillis makes North Carolina look like a bunch of good old southern boys that don't know what they are doing. Some politicians, like baby diapers, need to be changed often. And for the same reason.

Commented: Friday, June 20th, 2025 @ 10:18 am By: Buzz Cayton

Maybe Florida could loan Texas some of those 'gators for the Rio Grande River?

Commented: Friday, June 20th, 2025 @ 10:13 am By: borderhawk

Get him gone! Phil Berger is one of the most dastardly liberals in Raleigh, a Democrat in Drag.

Commented: Friday, June 20th, 2025 @ 10:00 am By: Rino Hunter

Maybe with the 11.5 cent tax increase the City of Washington passed in their budget will allow for some of this growth.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 4:19 pm By: BCCitizen

Our nation was founded because the people were tired of being overtaxed. The series of taxes that led to the Revolution were adopted by the British parliament, but since George III was the face of the British government, he was the target of people's anger. He certainly did not object to those taxes, so that was justified.

The Democrats of today tax us more than the British parliament did in those days, so it is the Democrats who are the modern tax tyrants.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 3:49 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wasn't our nation started because We the People opposed an actual King? Were we not opposed to taxation without representation? Did we not fight back when those who would oppress us came for our firearms, the AR-15s of the day, at Lexington and Concord? Don't our founding documents lay out a limited federal government so that the sovereign states could represent their people according to what they believed best? People shouldn't fear their government, governments should fear their people. They do work for us after all, not the other way around. Its sad to many people don't realize this or remember it. Its a travesty the bureaucrats and seemingly more often the judiciary don't understand this either.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 2:55 pm By: John Heermann

Washingtonian: tone doesn't come across in these types of messages, but my tone is always one of jovial good fun. You don't know me, but I hope to get to know you. Your skepticism, doubt, and criticism are invited and appreciated. I suspect we'll be fast friends in time.

I have a great deal of confidence in my convictions, though I always try to remain open to new ideas. Is defending conviction 'defensive'? Only if I'm closed to the idea of being persuaded differently. I am not. Quite the contrary. I invite you to move me from my convictions. But I haven't formed them lightly. You've questioned my idea about housing. I'm asking you for a better solution. Do you have one Washingtonian?

Conversely, you initially commented on my green opinion of the City Manager. In my on-going quest to understand local politics, I've come across the salaries of all Beaufort County employees. The City and County Managers both make in excess of $200k per year. That's five times the median household income in this area and 4 times higher than the average County/City Managaer in the country. There's a teacher at the Montessori whose salary was $225k. Every county & city contract should be bid out regularly. When do these jobs get put out for bid? I think it's time. I cannot speak on the character of any of these people. I don't know them more than superficially. But business is business.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 11:40 am By: Nick Fritz

The British Conservative Party under small "c" conservative Margaret Thatcher introduced a program for occupants of "council houses" (social housing) to purchase the properties at a reduced price. That program was regarded as successful.

Taxpayers need a change from the tax-and-spend regime now running Washington. Heck, one of their councilmen actually lives in Aurora, not at the address on his voter registration. Another is functionally illiterate. The entire council are pathetic yes-men to Mauor Donald Sadler.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 11:03 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tillis is worthless. He has been in the pocket of the wind / solar grifters since he was in the NC House, a special interest asset. He does not represent the people of North Carolina. He is also looking out for his own pocketbook because he owns a good bit of stock in a small bank in Mecklenburg County that specializes in lending to the wind and solar boondogglers.

Don Brown for US Senate in GOP primary 2026. He's one of us.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 10:37 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Borderhawk: My exact thought, but let us not forget Biden, the Traitor.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 10:00 am By: Stan Deatherage

Yes Nick, it does become very complicated once an elected government official is forced into to the proverbial weeds to sort things out.

I absolutely am a free market guy until I am not: Protecting our children and our vulnerable citizens from evil as is necessary ... And pure evil does exist.

I have voted against evil creeping into our vulnerable society on many occasions, and will continue to do so, irrespective of the free market argument.

On the other hand, I well know "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" of and within our governmental system of the People, and I will never resist taking that down as best I can, whenever I can.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 9:19 am By: Stan Deatherage

Fritz, You sound like a Democrat operative the way you refer to me, a fellow citizen who has lived a different experience than you, as Hostile. No need to be so judgemental as you admitted you are new, and dont know all there is to know, and even admitted you didnt know who my words applied to.

I am glad to see I at least made you see that if you want to represent us, you should try walking in others people's shoes. But in my humble opinion, you have a lot to learn. Who your heroes are says a lot about who you are. And your defensiveness says your skin is not as tough as you wish it was.

As I said to Stan, Hood trusted the words of a couple of people, and so helped get them elected, and then their deeds showed who they really were. After the election, its too late.

Commented: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 @ 11:38 pm By: Washingtonian