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Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, and a few other RINOs are the reason we got the budget busting Green New Deal mislabeled as the "Inflation Reduction Act" (it did just the opposite!). These RINOs gave Biden the votes to pass their also mislabeled "infrastructure" bill without having to use their "reconcilation" slot that avoided filibusters. It was only the fact that the reconciliation slot was still available that theywere able to pass the Green New Deal budget busting bill. Thanks a lot, Tillis. That is a big reason that I will NOT be voting for you regardless of who is running against you. Tillis is a spendthrift that we do not need in the Senate.

Commented: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 @ 12:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I will not, under any circumstances vote for Thom Tillis. I hope Republicans nominate somebody I can vote for because I do not vote for Democrats, but I will leave the Senate line blank if they nominate Tillis.

Commented: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 @ 10:56 am By: Bubba

Thom Tillis is an open borders amnesty whore. No one who wants secure borders should ever consider voting for that scoundrel. He is as bad as any Democrat and he corrupts the GOP caucus.

Commented: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 @ 10:30 am By: borderhawk

First he tried to maneuver against Pete Hegseth, now Tillis is trying to undermine Trump on tariffs. Tillis needs to GO in the primary. I hope Trump is working on a primary opponent for him.

Commented: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 @ 8:20 am By: Rino Hunter

What is so appalling about this case is not only did it involve judge shopping but also DISTRICT shopping. The plaintiffs were in Texas which is where the proper venue for the case lay. Boasberg allowed plaintiffs' lawyers to bring it in the wrong district, to which the plaintiffs had no connection. The Supreme Court was right in finding Boasberg lacked jurisdiction, something Boasberg should have known himself from the beginning.

There need to be more safeguards on getting a neutral judge which is not presently happening in the federal system. Perhaps plaintiffs counsel should be punished for deliberately filing in the wrong district. Obviously there needs to be some reforms on how judges get assigned.

Commented: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 @ 3:07 pm By: Steven P. Rader

This is just one more truly dumb move by the Beaufort County School Board.

Why is it the responsibility of the Conservative members of the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners to know more about acting in a more prudent manner than those elected to do so?

Maybe, it is because we fund the Beaufort County Schools, and all of their bad decisions. So, should the question truly become: Why is the 4 member majority - the Center-Left Coalition - so incurious in performing any oversight when it comes to the education of their Constituents' children?

Commented: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 @ 1:53 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Borderhawk, your words are true: The overall largest expense in Beaufort County may well be Illegals.

Commented: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 @ 1:19 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Anti-democracy acts by globalists are now widespread in the EU, and trying to remove leading presidential candidates from being able to run, as has happened in recent months in both Romania and France is the most appalling of all, especially in using unelected, unaccountable political appointee judges to do it. Judges need to keep their stinking noses OUT of politics or those noses need to be cut off (figuratively).

Commented: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 @ 10:09 am By: Conservative Voter

Illegal aliens are a huge expense for taxpayers in any country they infest. In Germany, 63% of the welfare budget goes to illegal aliens, up from 61% the previous year.

The illegal aliens not on Medicaid are just as big a problem because they just show up at the Emergency Room and don't pay. The hospitals losses from that are then added to the bills of paying patients, driving up cots to both patients and insurance companies, and also contributing to higher medical insurance premiums.

Either way, these freeloader are a pain in the pocketbook to our citizens and they need to be GONE.

Commented: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 @ 7:58 am By: borderhawk

For decades there has been a clear cut distinction within education between conservatives who favor community schools and liberals who favor large consolidated schools. The large consolidated schools tend to involve less community involvement and less parent involvement, and the liberal education establishment wants to cut out as much of both as they can.

Liberal superintendent Cheeseman is clearly on a resume building mission for his next job to try to move to a larger and better paying district and apparently seeing school consolidation as something he wants on his resume. Thus the ungainly consolidation plan on elementary schools in Washington, and now the closure of Snowden, forcing its student population to a school thirty miles away. We need more school board members who will put the education of Beaufort County students ahead of Cheeseman's resume building. Right now a majority of the board seems to ask "how high?" when Cheeseman says "jump".

Commented: Monday, April 7th, 2025 @ 7:17 pm By: John Steed

It would be poetic justice if Boasberg could be ousted from his judgeship, stripped of his citizenship for treason, and put on one of those planes to El Salvador with his illegal alien gangster buddies.

Commented: Monday, April 7th, 2025 @ 10:01 am By: borderhawk

Buzz, the purpose of the Local GOP is to vet candidates, and then support the ones that are worthy.

It is not civic club. The Beaufort County GOP's exclusive mandate is to elect real Republicans as per the dictates of the Republican Party Platform of Ideals.

I know you see it that way too, or you would not have done all that you have done over these many decades to elect the real Republicans in our midst that truly need real help.

Thank-you Buzz for all that you do, and all that you have done.

Commented: Sunday, April 6th, 2025 @ 12:55 pm By: Stan Deatherage