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Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 12:56 pm By: John Valley

John Valley: When Democratic Socialists continue to spew, "Trump will destroy our Democracy." That entirely means, it is the intent of the Democratic Socialists to do just that: Destroy our democratic process to deny US our true representatives.

In the 2020 General Election, they showed US just how far the "Democratics" would go to destroy our sacred democratic process to elect our leaders for this Representative Republic.

Democratic Socialists have proved they will lie, cheat and steal to retain power; even elect an Idiot President to destroy this Constitutional Republic if necessary ... Never again!

Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 12:45 pm By: Stan Deatherage

VZ: The lack of legal counsel by the school board at public hearings is bad enough, but ever worse is the apparent lack of legal counsel in their multi-million dollar school construction project in Washington. If legal counsel had been involved they would not have had that half million dollar blunder on not owning 4 acres of the school site.

Now, they are dealing with a construction company with a long history of cost overruns and do not have legal counsel involved in their meetings with them. I dread to think how much that might eventually cost us. Heck, they even leave the one local county commissioner with engineering and contract experience on major projects, Hood Richardson out of the loop. Instead, they send in Frankie Waters, whose business experience consists of running Tri-County Telephone during the time it was run into the ground and had to be sold off. This is not going to end well for taxpayers.

They had Cheesburger play real estate appraiser on their "fix" on the 4 acre fiasco. Is he playing lawyer, too? He is not qualified for either.

Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 11:39 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I would not assume that, Stan. Beaufort County does have a very consciencious, diligent, and honest elections director, but the problem was not in local policy but in state elections board policy. They instructed counties to approve registration of applicants who did not provide a drivers license number or the last four of the SS number. It is unlikely that any county refused to apply the official policy of the state board of elections even though that policy did not conform to federal election law. Indeed when the issue was raised in the lawsuits over the Supreme Court race, our county elections director confirmed to the Beaufort County GOP that there were such registrations here in Beaufort County.

Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 9:22 am By: Steven P. Rader

The refusal to follow federal law on election integrity has been ongoing by Democrat led state Election Board officials. In the last election, there were 700,000 voters on the tolls without this federally required information. The federal law is designed to help stop ficticious and duplicate voter registrations. This was one of the big issues in the questionable "victory" of radical leftwing Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs last year.

This issue has been raised to the Democrat led state Elections Board by citizen protests, but they refused to take any corrective action and just kept on allowing questionable voter registrations that did not comply with HAVA.

Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 8:37 am By: Steven P. Rader

Cheeseman is a control freak and there are way too many spineless empty suits on the school board. That is a bad combination for the citizens.

Commented: Saturday, May 31st, 2025 @ 8:27 pm By: Bubba

Marco Rubio ... A great man ... a wise governing force.

Commented: Saturday, May 31st, 2025 @ 7:42 pm By: Stan Deatherage

WE simply have too many weak minded individuals on the school board. Some of them talk a good game but you cannot count on then when the chips are down.

Commented: Saturday, May 31st, 2025 @ 6:02 pm By: Conservative Voter

The question is how many school board members are capable of thinking for themselves and of representing the constituents instead of being yes-men or yes-women for Cheeseman? It is clear that all of the cancellations and changes were done deliberately to try to push the public out of this as much as possible. Absolutely shameful.

Commented: Saturday, May 31st, 2025 @ 2:53 pm By: Rino Hunter

Van Zant, the Southside hearing was procedurally a huge improvement over the travesty of a hearing held at Snowden. When I served as a political appointee in the Jim Martin administration, I had a lot of experience with public hearings held by boards and commissions under the NC Department of Health and Human Services, where I served as the General Counsel. I would monitor public hearings of boards like the NC Social Services Commission, the NC Child Day Care Commission, and the NC Mental Health Commission for the department. I never saw anything like the circus at Snowden.

First, there was a lengthy advocacy speech by the superintendent before it was opened to the public. That was very inappropriate. Second, the superintendent tried to limit the public to questions rather than comments, until one speaker pushed back on that and went on with comments. That was inappropriate in the extreme to try to limit the public to questions. I have also never seen the people who are supposed to be listening to the comments to decide their course of action, the policymakers, hiding in the crowd instead of out front facing the public. That was inappropriate as well. All of those aspects were corrected for the hearing at Southside.

The other real oddity was the lack of legal counsel. When I was in the Marin administration, if I had a schedule conflict for one of these board or commission public hearings, I sent another attorney from my staff. Maybe when you have a school board attorney who is halfway across the state, it makes it logistically difficult to have him on hand, but that is just one more reason why it is better to have a local attorney representing the school board. They are more available for critical public hearings like this, as well as for things like riding herd on a massive school construction project.

Also, the report at the regular school board meeting on transportation lacked credibility because it was delivered as an advocacy speech rather than straight facts. When someone goes all over the landscape to try to justify something it raises real questions as to why. When that "report" started with ride times at district high schools and went on at length before ever getting to the subject at hand, it destroyed credibility.

Commented: Saturday, May 31st, 2025 @ 1:54 pm By: Steven P. Rader

What politician would be so mean-spirited to put little children, 5,6,and 7 years old on these long bus rides? That will damage their education and it is unconscionable. That may not be a problem for high school age children, but anyone who has had young children knows how harmful that would be. Do these politicians just not care?

Commented: Saturday, May 31st, 2025 @ 9:03 am By: Victoria

Ending the migrant crisis is a key part of the Reform Party's surge in support. Both Labour and Conservatives failed to dent the problem in recent years. Now that Reform is in control of a number of local governments, they are going to start refusing to take any more illegal alien migrants in those local areas. It is not their only big issue, as they also want to end the Net Zero climate madness and to cut taxes, but it is their most important one.

Commented: Saturday, May 31st, 2025 @ 9:11 am By: borderhawk