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Cheeseman is a control freak which is why he sits up there like he is an elected policy maker, which he is not. Look at other local government bodies like the city council and county commission. Their hired help bureaucrats like their city manager and county manager are NOT up there with the elected officials. They are seated on the side or down in front at a lower level. Cheeseman sit right in the center of the elected officials and even has his secretary on one side and the nominal board chairman on the other. He sits in a position superior to most of the elected board members. That is Cheeseman's ego. He regards himself as the boss, not the employee, and too many of our board members meekly put up with that. Disgusting.

Commented: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 1:26 pm By: Rino Hunter

Maybe if the Durham based attorney would have been less concerned with Stacey Davis's use of a publicly funded logo for her signs, and more concerned with a simple title search on the tract of land, where the Beaufort County Schools are building a hugely overpriced school building on the lowest point of the lot, an additional $500,000.00 of the public's treasure would NOT have been wasted in such a will-nilly manner - www.beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 11:38 am By: Stan Deatherage

What is really pathetic is watching the hired help, the superintendant, whispering to the sock puppet "chairman" sitting beside him telling him what to do. Our school board majority is a bad joke. The tail is wagging the dog.

I remember new School Board member Hudson promising in his campaign to do something about this untoward situation. WHEN will he do it? Or has he been captured by the Cheeseman mafia?

Commented: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 11:28 am By: Conservative Voter

This post was about approval ratings. Bobbie is deflecting. But the election was the most decisive in quite a few cycles, and was an Electoral College landslide, which is where the actual election happens.

Bobbie is also whistling past the graveyard over the fact that black folks are warming to Trump, especially black men.

Commented: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 9:22 am By: Rino Hunter

It should be easy enough to deal with Venezuela if they continue to refuse to take their migrants. They have quite a few islands in the Caribbean, some uninhabited or with low population. All we would have to do is temporarily occupy one of them and dump their migrants on their territory with food and water and let Venezuela take them to the mainland.

Commented: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 8:12 am By: borderhawk

Leave it to the far left to blame people who were not even alive at the time for something their ancestors did. Should we hold modern Italians responsible for some of the genocidal acts of ancient Rome? Should modern French people hang their heads in shame over the Reign of Terror? "Inherited guilt" is total bullsh!t. The actual Nazis were punished at the Nuremburg trials, as they should have been for what they did. It is insane to punish people who were not even born at the time.

Commented: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 7:57 am By: Conservative Voter

Musk says Germans should get past their Nazi guilt. Leave it to a white South African to trivialize the murdered of 6 million.

Commented: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 11:22 pm By: Big Bob

This has a really nasty stench of corruption. Who is getting what under the table?

Commented: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 5:14 pm By: Bubba

Most polls are giving Trump a positive approval rating, not the neutral one of this poll, even if it touts itself as "America's most accurate pollster".

For example, the Reuters/IPSOS poll gives Trump a +6 approval rating, when in his first term, his rating never went over -3.
www.pennlive.com

Commented: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 1:45 pm By: John Steed

Randy Walker recently stated as much in an open meeting, as he was the alternative to Commissioner Richardson, which he professed was the "noble" position to take.

So, let me propose something here as a recurring math problem.

Over the last number of years, Commissioner Richardson has proposed all kinds of ideas to me, all looking forward, sometimes with just a hunch of an idea of what is best. We talk among ourselves, and some of those ideas never see the light of day, but a great many go forward refined.

Additionally, my ideas are subject to a refinement by The Hood, and some never see the light of day as well.

Over the years, when the varying Center-Left Coalitions vote against myself and Commissioner Richardson's promising process of conservative governing, which they invariably often do, in retrospect, The Hood /Stan plan turns out to be eventually right around 90% of the time to effect conservative governing, with the balance of 10% correct in opposition to a perfected conservative government, so I ask: Which side would you want to be on, the 90% side where you are mostly right, or the 90% where you are mostly wrong?

I can do math, and I know right from wrong, or just plain stupid, so that answer will always be simple for me, and I wager my constituents, obviously, understand this conundrum as I do.

Commented: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 1:07 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Washingtonian: These "wise" decisions are made by the Center-Left Coalition far ahead of the open session meetings; notice from the meeting's video how few questions these Center-Left politicians answered, when asked by myself and Commissioner Richardson.

These "bipartisan" commissioners do not work well under the same strain of scrutiny that publicly elected officials are expected to withstand.

Commented: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 12:23 pm By: Stan Deatherage