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Washingtonian, IMHO Tyre, who is the ringleader for the Sadler faction on the Council, made an effort to pit the two younger members of the taxpayer group against each other, found Perrault the more gullible, and has played him like a fiddle. I hope that there is someone out there who has influence with Perrault who can get through to him how Tyre is using him.

Make no mistake. Tyre's gambit to pit Davis and Perrault against each other is intended to politically destroy both of them. Perrault needs to wise up to what Tyre is up to. He is as much a target of Tyre's scheming as Davis is.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 7:06 pm By: Conservative Voter

What it comes down to...with all the glittery things aside;

1. The GOP strategists, including "Trump's level" , are trying to find a way to keep remaining swing voters from nuking the Warhawks (Neo-Con Zionists) and milk-toast Republicans in the midterms; still-soaring costs of everyday living, the support of Israel's escapades through the Middle East and the suppression of the Epstein Files ain't sitting well with those holding the GOP pocketbook.

2. Mr. Dick Adams's unwavering belief of term limits and common sense transparency is considered to be heresy by both sides of County GOP''s across the country; good folks are getting tired of being played by those stealing their money..for a variety of reasons.

The old school Crusaders are becoming a liability to the party. The MAGA crowd is tired of the Crusaders because they're running off Conservative swing voters with their insanity.

It's like old Mid-South Wrestling but Dusty Rhodes ain't doing the booking.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 5:03 pm By: John Valley

Teachers tend to be more Democrat than Republican and more liberal than conservative. Putting retired teachers on school boards is like hiring a fox to guard the hen house. Most of them have an attitude that teachers know better than parents on most issues and that leads to parents concerns being ignored. Our school board is headed down the wrong path with the way two of our GOP primaries came out. One of those retired teachers nominated is actually a longtime Democrat who only recently switched to "Republican" on paper.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 12:35 pm By: Rino Hunter

I concur that the vote on budget / taxes will be Perrault's last chance to get right with the voters who put him in office. After that, his defection to the dark side of Washington politics will be the end of his political career. He still has a chance to save it, but it is getting down to the short rows. The Sadler machine is a corrupt tax and spend monstrosity. Does he really want to align with that?

Tyre was clever in promoting a personality split between Davis and Perrault, but Perrault ought to have the brains to figure out that he is being used.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 11:51 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Perrault was oh so happy to talk the talk during the campaign but now refuses to walk the walk.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 10:17 am By: Bubba

Here are Eisenhower's words on the dangers of a "scientific-technological elite":

"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

-President Dwight Eisenhower

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 9:24 am By: John Steed

Van Zant — The Beaufort County Republican Party has a serious reckoning coming. They helped put Perreault in that seat. Their Victory Committee fingerprints are reportedly all over this. And now the man they campaigned for is voting to strip a conservative council member of his committee assignments, cut off his microphone mid-meeting, and lead the city manager hire that may not have even followed proper procedure. At what point does the party apparatus take responsibility for what they helped build? You don't get to wash your hands of Perreault now. You brung him.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 8:14 pm By: PamlicoPatriot1776

Concerned Taxpayer: I am your audience, and I understand your point.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 3:36 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Reports on violation of the Open Meetings Act in hiring the city manager behind closed doors and not making the official motion in open session is a big concern. While most elected officials attend seminars that instruct them on the Open Meetings Law, they should also have their own attorney for the body present to tell them that th3ey just cannot do it that way.

No one has come forward to contend that this action was taken in open session, so one must asssume that the reports are accurate.

But this is not the first occurrence of such a matter. When the outgoing city council met and voted on the golden parachute for the outgoing city manager, which was at huge expense to the taspayer, there was also no motion made in open session on those matters as required by the open meetings law. Where was the city attorney when that was done? In addition, the law does not allow a lame duck government body after an election and before its new members are sworn in to take personnel actions of that sort. Our new council should be trying to claw back that golden parachute, because it was not done in compliance with NC law. Perhaps the council members who voted to throw away that taxpayer money could be personally liable for it.

Not following the Open Meetings Law and other NC law seems to be a significant problem with our city council. Washington deserves better.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By: John Steed

Let's call this what it is. Max Perreault didn't just flip on his voters — he is now actively participating in the systematic erasure of a duly elected council member. Removing Davis from two committees in one meeting, using procedural points of order to cut off his microphone, hiring a city manager without a public vote as required by law — and Perreault sits right there and votes yes to every single one of these power plays. The Beaufort County Republican Party knocked on doors for this man. Conservative voters turned out for him. He has repaid every single one of them with betrayal so complete it almost requires admiration for its thoroughness. Benedict Arnold at least had the decency to do it once.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 1:29 pm By: ConservativeBetrayalNC

I just want these guys in the Conservative Coalition to stick together. There is no good reason why they would not.

Joe Davis may be a little green in spaces, but all young, immediate politicians need seasoning, learn the real ropes ... At least at some level of better understanding and growth. What matters is whether their ideological hearts are in the right place, and I am satisfied that Councilman Davis's political heart is solid.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 12:25 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Just to add one thing about Executive Committee member Ceres: His expressed "concerns" about Victory Committee actions weren't done in actual Executive Committee meetings. In those meetings when Chairman Garris was not recognizing Richardson and other members of the committee she did not want to hear, Ceres was all for it. When Garris or one of her sycophants called the police, he was all for it. When she adjourned the meeting on more than one occasion rather than hear unwanted questions he was all for that too. I forgot to add that yesterday, but there are so many transgressions it's hard to keep up with them all.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 10:19 am By: Van Zant