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Bubba: Tell these affected folks to contact me with any problems.

Commented: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 @ 3:41 pm By: Stan Deatherage

What an enjoyable article! I loved every word!

Commented: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 @ 2:07 pm By: Shari

I don't live in Washington. I live out in the county, God's country, my country.

If Commissioner Deatherage likes this guy, I do too! I mean that real hard!

Commented: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 @ 11:12 am By: William Bonney

Good morning Washingtonian! I am too new to have any jaded or jagged opinions of any of the players involved. If you're suggesting that Jonathan is the Godfather, that is news to me. Or perhaps you're suggesting he's the king and I'm the new puppet. Perhaps I'm the king and he's the puppet. Not sure where all your references are pointing, but it seems hostile. I am the agent of change. You don't have to believe my words, my deeds will speak loud enough, my friend! I appreciate the hostility. I appreciate the anger and frustration! I share it and I'm tired of grumbling to deaf ears. I am going to change things. Thanks for reading. My skin is thick and I can only get better through criticism, so don't hold back buddy!!

Commented: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 @ 10:31 am By: Nick Fritz

Another Idiot Democratic Socialist, possibly a Non Patriot Leftist, governing this nation, giving US great pause to wonder: Who votes for these fools?

Commented: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 @ 10:06 am By: Stan Deatherage

The astute voting public, the taxpayers of every stripe need to be circumspect of every governing body in Beaufort County.

Knick Fritz is circumspect; he is intelligent, he is proactive; he is a good citizen.

We are a citizen government, we are the self-governed; we need good citizens, like Nick Fritz, leading us into tomorrow.

Commented: Wednesday, June 18th, 2025 @ 8:53 am By: Stan Deatherage

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
― Molière

Washington ranked 5th on Budget Travel's list of "America’s Coolest Small Towns" in 2015.

Let's make Washington a great place to live for our residents and a great place to visit for everyone else! We should not be holding ourselves back or limiting opportunity for anyone.
Thank you Mr. Fritz for your vision and willingness to serve!

Commented: Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 @ 5:14 pm By: David Hudson

There are clearly some REALLY sick puppies in both Colorado and Austria. What right thinking person would do that to children?

Commented: Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 @ 3:08 pm By: Bubba

Presidents create and eliminate federal agencies by executive order all the time. It is nonsensical to say that such an agency created by one president's executive order cannot be dismantled by the executive order of another. USAID and the Global Engagement Center were both created by executive orders of Democrat presidents. A Republican president has the same right to enter an order ending their existance. Highly partisan political rulings like this one are badly damaging the reputation of our federal courts, something these Democrat judges ought to consider and so should the Supreme Court to put a stop to it.

Commented: Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 @ 8:58 am By: Steven P. Rader

The Judicial Wing of the Democrat Party, the politically corrupt Obama judges and the Biden Autopen judges, do not believe that elections have consequences. They will abuse power and grab power to try to suppress the President's Constitutional powers. The Judicial Wing of the Democrat Party is the biggest threat to democracy in America today. Someone needs to jerk their chain real hard, preferably the SCOTUS, and if not then the Congress, or if necessary the executive branch. Their wanton abuse of power needs to be brought to a grinding halt.

Commented: Monday, June 16th, 2025 @ 11:27 am By: John Steed

The premise of this "No Kings" movement is absolutely silly. To start with, only two royalists have ever been elected to the US Congress, and they were non-voting delegates advocating the restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy, not creating a national monarchy for the United States. Anglo-Hawaiian royalist Robert Wilcox, who had been one of the military leaders of the unsuccessful royalist counterrevolution of 1895 in Hawaii, was elected Hawaii's delegate to Congress on the ticket of the monarchist Home Rule Party in 1901. He was succeeded by Prince Kuhio of Hawaii, who had also participated in the royalist counterrevolution of 1895 and was younger brother of Crown Prince Kawanakoa. Prince Kuhio was elected in 1903 to succeed Wilcox and served in Congress representing Hawaii until his death in 1922.

It is well known that many Continental army officers urged George Washington to become king after the success of the American Revolution, and he rejected the idea out of hand, instead becoming our first president. Washington also set the tradition of a president not serving over two terms.

The only other attempt to set up a monarchy in the United States occurred during the Articles of Confederation period before the US Constitution was adopted and was done behind the scenes with questionable support beyond a small group. Indeed, it was decades later before some leaders of that period discussed it publicly. After the Shays Rebellion, the then President of the Continental Congress, Nathaniel Gorham, wrote to Prince Heinrich of Prussia, younger brother of King Frederick the Great, and invited him to become king of America. Heinrich replied that he was not interested. It is highly questionable if Gorham would have had the support to have pulled that off even if Heinrich had said "yes".

So, other than the very limited situation of Hawaii, there has never been any substantial political support for a monarchy in America, and only the Gorham attempt had anyone of any political stature supporting such an idea.

Commented: Sunday, June 15th, 2025 @ 7:18 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Many conservative think Sen. Buck Newton's amendments are quite good. It is too bad that the Democrats have their panties in a twist. Cry me a river. Don't let these woke imbeciles control the agenda.

Commented: Sunday, June 15th, 2025 @ 5:35 pm By: John Steed