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Big Bob: You began the "teamwork" metaphor as yet another one of your clichés, so I used that metaphor to inform you how I well I understand how politics /governing works, even though, as a Leftist, it is probably a concept you cannot fathom.


Let me use another metaphor for you then that is not so clichéd, so you might understand.

I will not join in league with the devil for the "best possible out comes for all of us."

This is the way I have governed for 26 plus years, and this method continues to work best for me and my constituents.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 4:38 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The entire amount of money will come from the Beaufort County Tax Payers, and of that one truth, I am absolutely sure of.

I do not begrudge the City for their taking advantage of the situation, but the county commissioners did have the option to make a straight swap at NO extra cost to our county's taxpayers.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 3:59 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Mr. Trump is definitely thinking out of the box, which is a big improvement over his predecessor, who DID NOT think at all ... at any time.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 12:58 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thank-you Washingtonian: I predict more Beaufort County tax payers will begin to recognize the true story of local government once their tax bills begin to rise in this Re-evaluation Year, when "revenue neutral" taxing policies become a thin disguise for Center-Left Coalition abiding county commissioners voting to effectively raise your taxes.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 12:04 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: The ill conceived perceived power of the Center-Left Coalition, who in a bipartisan manner swap votes to share power, has led this governing cartel to develop a profound hubris that has led to a plethora of terrible decisions that will certainly penalize the taxpayers of Beaufort County ... Especially now in this Re-evaluation Year.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 11:19 am By: Stan Deatherage

I came into this hastily called meeting thinking it would take a matter of minutes to swap the two 4 acre parcels, and then I would be back at the gym, where I had just left.

Secondly, I did not realize that the meeting was being filmed, but am politically pleased that it was, since the Center-Left Coalition decided to show their true colors, and conveniently waste $500,000.00 of the public's tax dollars in such a willy-nilly manner.

In the video, notice how the Center-Left Coalition, who obviously caucus to then decide how to swap votes to share power here in Beaufort County, would give no adequate answer as to why they would so frivolously allocate so much money, when allocating none would have sufficed to correct the gross incompetence of planning a massive construction project on land that one does not own.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 8:22 am By: Stan Deatherage

What a disgusting boondoggle. THese spendthrifts are Biden on the Pamlico. What is disgusting is those who claim - falsely - to be Republican. They are Democrats in Drag.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 7:20 am By: Rino Hunter

Big Bob: You have no clue what is real; do you?

Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 11:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Bobbie is both projecting and deflecting.

Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 8:37 pm By: Rino Hunter

I’m just sayin, teamwork makes the dream work.

Election’s over. Try it.

Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 4:45 pm By: Big Bob

It is a lot to digest in one sitting, but I wonder if we should help them understand that bussing means K students (5 years old) will be riding on their own on a bus. The oldest child will be 8 or 9 years old. Will a five-year-old get off of the bus and run out in the street?

Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 3:47 pm By: Buzz Cayton