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These are truly "bizarro" times for the Common Sense Conservative. The treatment of Brian McGinnis, who is a patriot and Marine Corps veteran, is eerily similar to how knowledgeable patriots within our County are/have been treated, on several occasions, by those who've been trying to turn the GOP into a Neo-Con echo chamber.

The Republicans who made this particular cut need to be cautious of who and what they align with; things could further go to hell for the GOP if Uncle Donnie keeps silencing questioning of the US Military being the muscle for Israel.

To sum it all up, people like Commissioner Deatherage aren't Neo-Cons or local bizarro libtards; they give a damn and are trying to wake folks up while there's still time. If the community doesn't come together and call out the bad actors, we're going to be in a very bad way and surrounded on all sides.

If everybody's got money on the line, people tend to pay attention.

Commented: Saturday, March 7th, 2026 @ 6:18 pm By: John Valley

Stan, you are the Top Choice for conservative voters. Others can talk about cutting taxes, but your record is the proven deal. In twenty some years, you have never voted for a tax increase, and often made motions to reduce spending and taxes. That record needs to get out to voters in November more than it got out in the primary. If it does, you can easily be top votegetter. But to get tax cuts and a real Republican majority, you need Ashley Woolard running second, not John Edwards. I am certain Woolard will back you up on those things but I question whether Edwards would. I know you have got to run your own race, but others need to pass the word that Edwards is the weak link on taxes and spending.

Commented: Saturday, March 7th, 2026 @ 8:04 pm By: Conservative Voter

Conservative losses in Beaufort County are substantial. Lets start at the bottom on what we lost.

Our School Board went into the election with four solid conservative seats, three liberals, and two swing votes. Conservatives had a path to achieve policy goals. Now it will be five liberals, two conservatives and two swing votes. The two incoming members replacing the conservatives are both retired school teachers who have been members of the very leftwing teachers union, the very LAST thing we need on the school board. They will be all-in on the liberalism and wokeness coming down from the public school establishment.

The county commission also looks like the chance to get out of the center-left coalition is less certain, as is the chance to take a meat ax to our taxes. Conservative stalwart Stan Deatherage was in third place and therefore in danger in November. Ashley Woolard would be a big improvement over liberal RINO Frankie Waters on the issues, but the top votegetter was a Chamber of Commerce style moderate who harps on economic development. Tilting at that windmill has produced little in several decades (ironically the defeat of Kidwell probably screws the pooch on the one promising thing locally on economic development, the interest of the drone industry in coming here which Kidwell largely drove). Conservatives can still come out of this if we work hard to get Deatherage and Woolard as the two top votegetters in the Fall, but that will be a hard slog. Edwards has done little or nothing to express interest in cutting taxes, but he came out on top in the primary.

Our biggest loss was in the State House, where we had the top conservative leader there and he has been replaced by a water boy for the special interests, whose only policy interest himself seems to be things that involve Big Ag. We will be replacing a legislator who got an A+ on gun rights issues from the NRA with one who got an F from the NRA. Our new legislator will owe his soul to the dark money special interests who dropped over half a million dollars into our district to promote him and attack Kidwell. It is shameful that our voters fell for it. Instead of a totally engaged legislator who read every bill, and caught the nonsense that was too often slipped in, we will have a legislator who turned down running for count commissioner because he did not have time for it. How in the heck will he have time to be a legislator?

Even for Congress, we got the least desirable of the choices whose strange connections with the DC swamp raises eyebrows. A seasoned local conservative like Asa Buck or Bobby Hanig would have been so much better for conservatives.

Commented: Saturday, March 7th, 2026 @ 8:52 am By: Conservative Voter

Conservatives had a really bad night in Beaufort County. I'm glad it was different in Rockingham County. Maybe they can Flip the Berger, too.

Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By: Bubba

CT, I just dont consider internal corruption to be "petty."

And besides that, "sour apples" is unbecoming.

Its the reason that "we cant have nice things" here at home.

Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 10:29 am By: Washingtonian

I am sure all the illegal aliens are happy, too, Washingtonian. One of the leading supporters of immigration enforcement is being replaced by a big farmer, whose industry business model relies on exploiting illegal alien labor.

Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 8:11 am By: borderhawk

It is a relief to see local law enforcement finally taking a stand and restoring order in Minnesota; Homan’s approach to de-escalation through firm enforcement is exactly what’s been missing. As we see these federal shifts, a few of us in my business circle are discussing the long-term implications for international mobility and securing legal status abroad as a contingency. Does anyone here have experience with European residency requirements, specifically regarding the speed of bureaucratic processing? I was looking at this resource for obtaining a Spanish tax ID remotely e-residence.com to see if it's a viable way to bypass the usual government delays, or do you think these types of digital legal services are becoming the new standard for international compliance in this chaotic climate?

Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 1:53 am By: Peggy

The behavior of the Walkers, Carolyn and Randy is shocking but not surprising. They may call themselves Republicans but they are still what they were most of their lives - functional Democrats. You can see it in how both of them govern. They are Undocumented Democrats. Carolyn Walker is trying to build herself a little power clique of liberals on the School Board. Randy votes with the Democrats on the county commission.

Even with their brand of deceptive politics, though, smearing conservative colleagues from other districts to voters, is beneath what I would have expected even from the Walkers.

Hickman and Rader have both been Republican leaders, both of them former county GOP chairmen and congressional district GOP chairmen, with deep roots in the GOP. The Walkers on the other hand are latecoming opportunists.

One remembers the grifting that Randy Walker did in his first GOP commissioner campaign (he had already tried and failed as a Democrat). He begged Hood Richardson to buy him signs, which Richardson came up with the money to do. Then he hired Ashley Woolard to run his internet ad campaign, and ended up stiffing Woolard not only for Woolard's own fee but also for the money Woolard advanced to buy the ads. That reflects the true character of the Walkers. They are not of character to be attacking others.

Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 9:55 pm By: Rino Hunter

When I hear about how these RINOs are ruining my county and my country, it makes me real mad.

Me and my buds will vote big in the November for the real Republicans.

Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 10:54 am By: William Bonney

RMB: The Beaufort County GOP not only did nothing about the county commission frauds they embraced them. Furthermore, they took every opportunity to shun the actual conservative Republicans, not only on the county commission but also in other positions. The local GOP is not looking after party interests. Rather they are operating as an exclusive club of opportunistic insiders. They do not work for the benefit of Beaufort County or for the benefit of Republican Party principles. They do way more harm than good.

Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 9:32 am By: Van Zant

Conservatives in Beaufort County need to get their act together. A lot of special interest money was in this campaign. Even so, I think Kidwell could have weathered the storm if he had not thrown his weight around in Beaufort County opposing local conservatives and allying with that corrupt Garris woman. In my mind he lost his race at that point.

Local conservatives need to come to some sort of understanding. Maybe we need to separate the wheat from the chaff and think about the big picture.

Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 8:58 am By: Van Zant