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Great article!

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 11:55 am By: Joe Davis

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!!
However, I wish to thank Nick 4 his interest n Good Government.
I have little enthusiasm for numbers,accounting,bookkeeping so I must express gratitude 4 what NFritz has done 4 us here n Washington.

The problem wasnt just w th last CityManager, it was the whole indoctrinated CityGovt & its "STAFF." Thankfully some of those r now gone, but not enough.
One thing Trump learned aftr his 1st term is that it was of little help to hav a strong new President if th corrupted cabal undr hm remained th same.
So I say Trump learned his lesson,& in his 2nd term he fired a whole lot of bureaucrats. Our Council needs to do th same. Any advisory committee member who has been w th City for 3-4 yrs or more should be replaced w new blood. And I dare say a few more of th Dept Heads. They r still a problem & are still "working th system" w/out the eyes of the CityCouncil.

But back to Nick Fritz, thank u so much 4 bein who u are. Dont let th corrupt ones pull u down to their

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 10:35 am By: Washingtonian

Too many of our teachers are in these radical teachers unions. I would not vote for a teacher for anything unless I knew them very well personally and knew that they were not caught up in this teachers union nonsense. And WHAT are they teaching our children?

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 9:22 am By: Bubba

Van Zant: Could there be mendacity at the the core of all subterfuge afloat, like so many varied 'turds, floating in their political punchbowl?'

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 3:36 am By: Stan Deatherage

The only people disrupting these meetings are Garris and her devotees. The ones she is claiming to be disruptive are only politely trying to have a legal meeting. Having a real meeting is the last thing Garris and her zombies want, because they have been operating illegally and have essentially been caught. They are performing acrobatics in order to keep this out of any official record in an attempt to wiggle out of this tight spot they have put themselves in. Their arrogance knows no bounds.

In the meantime, Garris and the illegal shadow committee are unilaterally making decisions to exclude and harm conservatives. The people that have hijacked the Beaufort County Republican Party are essentially acting as outlaws at this point in time. Some external controlling authority needs to come and review this sorry situation.

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 2:51 am By: Van Zant

These radical teachers unions are enemies of America and are indoctrinating our children. Their members like Davis and Cornelius should NEVER be elected to local school boards. NEVER.

Commented: Monday, February 16th, 2026 @ 8:48 pm By: borderhawk

Lloyd Williams is clearly a Democrat plant in the Republican primary. He could have filed to run against a Democrat judge but instead primaried a Republican who had already announced. Now the other shoe drops. Democrats are endorsing Williams and financing his campaign.

Commented: Monday, February 16th, 2026 @ 8:02 am By: Rino Hunter

Steed: I read an article somewhere recently that discussed what you and I have been debating over: the Boomer (1946-1964) political strategy vs. the Gen X (1965-1980)/Gen Y (1981-1996) political strategy within the realm of Conservative thinking.

The Gen-ZYennials, those born between the early 90's to early 2000's, are the ones really setting "old world" political gatekeepers on fire. They are taking knowledge they've learned from previous generations, studied many different angles and are asking hard questions NOBODY, only a select few are excluded from NOBODY, wants to bring into public discussion.

In some ways, I think some people are genuinely trying to protect the "old world" because times SEEMED to be better. Others are doing so because they want total f-ing control over everything.

Many of our collective heroes come from the "old world". The key to this is taking what was before and making it work in the NOW. It's not anything drastic; it's a kick in the ass.

Commented: Sunday, February 15th, 2026 @ 12:37 pm By: John Valley

One thing that is not followed AT All by these present-day leaders of the Beaufort County Republican Party is the Republican Party Plan of organization. Some higher level of the party needs to come down and fix this. The people here are not capable of doing it. As things are, the party will not survive this.

Commented: Sunday, February 15th, 2026 @ 4:18 pm By: Van Zant

The latest inflation numbers show that inflation is down at its lowest for several years, quite a change from the galloping inflation of the Biden era. Good job, President Trump.

Commented: Saturday, February 14th, 2026 @ 4:11 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Washingtonian, there are pluses and minuses on every politician. That's a fact. For some like Jesse Helms, John East, and Walter Jonees, Jr, the minuses are hard to find, while on others like Thom Tillis and Steve Troxler, they are as evident as warts on someone's face..

The big difference in our NC House primary is how they would vote on key issues before the legialture. We have one candidate with a record, which is solidly conservative, and who wears his support of conservative issues on his sleave. We have another with no issue record, but a political record of support liberal Democrat Marc Basnight, and who does not put a single policy issue on his website. He also sucks issues as much as he can when asked about them. It is crystal clear which one will stand up for us on conservative policy in the General Assembly. It is not even close.

I agree that the provision on legslators being exempt from the public records statutes stunk to high heaven but it was placed as a special provision in the state budget by the Senate. Budget rules do not allow amendemnts on the floor. Only the House Appropriations Committee had the power to amend the senate version of the budget to take that out. When they failed to do that (and Kidwell was NOT a member of that committee), no legislator was allowed to offer a floor amendment to take it out unless they rewrote the part of the House rules that prohibited floor amendments on the budget. If Armstrong is pushing that issue, it just shows eitehr 1) how little he know of how the legislature operates, or 2) that he is deliberately making a false attack.

We need a conservative representing us, NOT an establishment puppet.

Commented: Saturday, February 14th, 2026 @ 4:02 pm By: John Steed

Yes, I use an alias because when its shown that other alias users
here, attack & try to destroy my "alias," it becomes obvious why it is dangerous to use one's real name n Beaufort Co. These pple
using their alias's would actually try to destroy my real reputation right here among my own pple. So, Everyone should look in a mirror & judge selves. Why so much violent intent?
When u set your hair on fire to protect a "politician,"(when we all know that politicians "serve to serve themselves,") I have to wonder what's in 4 you? WHY set your hair on fire over a politician. We know that 99.9% of politicians would throw their own cronies under the wheels of a bus to protect themselves. Meaning you, who set your hair on fire for Kidwell, are just useful idiots. The question always comes back to "what's in it for you?"
JUST SAY NO to KIDWELL, who voted w the rest of th legislature to EXEMPT selves from PUBLIC RECORDS Laws when it comes to their own
offices. WOW!
Yes, its time to clean NC House!

Commented: Saturday, February 14th, 2026 @ 12:23 pm By: Washingtonian