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Florida has done a lot to rid itself of illegal aliens by strict mandates on use of E-verify by employers to confirm legal status. Many illegal aliens have left the state shown by a dramatic decline in illegal alien hospital care. But $660 Million after those restrictions were put in place is appalling. Liberal states like California, New York, and Illinois are paying a lot more. Maybe ICE should stake out hospital Emergency Rooms to arrest illegal aliens for deportation.

Commented: Thursday, March 13th, 2025 @ 11:57 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wow, what a great idea to let citizens help root out these parasites and send them home. What is happening to hospitals in Florida is happening all over the country, and that makes American citizens have to pay more for our medical care and our medical insurance. Just one more reason we need to send the illegal aliens home where they belong.

Hospitals need to be freed from the statutory obligation to care for illegal aliens other than acute emergencies, for which they should be stabilized and given a plane ticket home. Chronic conditions should never be on the hospital's dime. The illegal alien should be given a plane ticket home for care.

Commented: Thursday, March 13th, 2025 @ 10:14 am By: borderhawk

This is great news for education and for parents in Texas. I wish we could do the same thing here in NOrth Carolina.

Commented: Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 @ 8:04 pm By: Rino Hunter

All of these climate doom predictions have turned out to be nothing but hot air every time the date they were supposed to happen passes. Chicken Little should indeed be the symbol of the climate alarmist movement. Or maybe the European farmers have an even better one. They call it "climate communism" with a hammer and sickle as the climate alarmist symbol.

Commented: Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 @ 9:54 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

New EPA Director Lee Zeldin has cut $1.7 Billion in DEI money at the EPA. With previous cuts, this makes over $2 Billion of this waste cut at DPR. None of this crap was ever approved by Congress.
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It is no surprise about Briner. He was a supporter of the Marxist BLM during their nationawide riots in 2020. He is a white male version of AOC who does not belong in the GOP, but then neither does his political godrather Berger.

Commented: Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 @ 6:10 pm By: Conservative Voter

Van Zant: Having served with, and against, the Center-Left Coalition, those whose who swap votes to share power here in Beaufort County, in some various iteration of theirs for the last nearly 15 years, I have had the great displeasure of learning how to exist in slow successful measures, while begrudgingly working with these intellectually challenged political figures.

And, while the Center-Left Coalition does some incredibly stupid stuff, in both word and deed, Commissioner Richardson and I, however deeply frustrated we may appear outwardly, well know how to keep these self-styled marianets in their appointed self-constructed box.

Accordingly, the current school board needs to begin the process to form a coalition of Republican badasses to begin what will begin the intense process of forming a shadow political insurgency to remove those among themselves, who could never lead these public schools out of the deep shadows in which they are now intellectually and politically enshrouded.

I honestly know in the deepest recesses of my optimistic political heart that we are just one election away from a conservative revolution here on the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, and in that same note of optimism, I am hopeful for the Beaufort County School Board as well.

Commented: Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 @ 6:45 am By: Stan Deatherage

Congress is who is supposed to appropriate money but they never approved this DEI mess, so Biden abused power to inappropriately spend a trillion dollars. It is things like this that have put our country into a financial mess.

Commented: Monday, March 10th, 2025 @ 9:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Van Zant: If anyone deserves the right to be publicly angry with these intellectually deprived members of the Center-Left Coalition, it is me; however, I am honor bound to do the People's business during these public meetings, and I shall never "grind my personal /business axe" on the People's time.

Commented: Monday, March 10th, 2025 @ 9:48 am By: Stan Deatherage

John Valley, Report what you know about corruption to tipline@ncauditor.net Name names!

Make it easy on yourself, send them some of the things that you and others have written here.
If you call them, they will actually call you back.
Dont hesitate. I didnt. Let's make the sheer number of reports overwhelming.

Commented: Sunday, March 9th, 2025 @ 8:56 pm By: Washingtonian

DOGE is racist!

Commented: Sunday, March 9th, 2025 @ 1:27 pm By: Big Bob 2.0

I watch th Mar3 Commissioners meeting,& saw a Clown Show!
What an embarrassment Ed Booth is to th pple of this county. He completely slanders Hood right there n front of th world.He should resign n shame. His lack of integrity&judgment was n full view.

The 4 I refer to as Mr Opposites is bec they consistently vote nay to anything Hood purposes. Even simply a light to let them know when they are being recorded was too much 4 them. However w/out even a night to sleeping on it, they voted to pay $500,000 for 4ac. NOW THAT contrast is a perfect example of what is wrong w th 4 Mr. Opposites. They made fools of selves & now they just want to move on & hide their errors by not demanding a title search to resolve any festering doubts abt th dishonesty of that whole boondoggle.
I feel bad 4 Hood&Stan saying this,but I think we need term limits.
All BAD BAD stuff going on here in BeaufortCounty&Washington Govt, however Stan made an inspiring speech during the Comments section. Part 1 of 2.

Commented: Sunday, March 9th, 2025 @ 10:23 am By: Washingtonian

If a Republican fundraising operation was run like Act Blue, they would have been in prison a long time ago. It is embarassing to our system that this was allowed to go on for as long as it has.

Commented: Sunday, March 9th, 2025 @ 12:16 pm By: Steven P. Rader