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Where Mark Robinson wore out his welcome with me was with his failure to engage against the NC Green New Deal. A group of conservative energy and environmental experts briefed him in detail on the issue and its huge cost to business and electric ratepayers, Robinson said after the briefing that he did not want to get involved. This seemed to be his stance on a whole lot of issues, he was MIA.

Now however, when climate activist fanatic Josh Stein is the Democrat nominee, the best we can hope for is Mr. MIA Mark Robinson. With that pair as the only realistic choices, Robinson is the only game in town. North Carolina simply cannot afford Josh Stein.

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 8:53 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Beaufort County is now one of the few counties in the state, and perhaps the only county, not to have some requirement in local school board policy of teaching our founding principles as part of the curriculum. PUtting this in local policy is important because many school systems have a habit of not following state statute even when there is a reporting requirement to the legislature.

A good example of that is on teaching cursive writing which is also required by state statute, and county school systems are required to report they are doing it. A number have learned that they can just fail to report at all and nothing will happen. Others regularly report they are teaching cursive writing when in fact they are not. In Beaufort County Schools, they file reports saying they are teaching it, and some teachers do and some don't. Here in Beaufort County we have too many students graduating who cannot even sign their name even though they are supposed to be fluent in reading and writing in cursive before leaving elementary school under state statute.

It is because so many local school systems laugh at state staturory requirements that do not happen to be in favor at NCDPI. that it is essential that these requirements be placed in local policy.

This excuse for deleting this material came from the school board's very liberal Durham-based attorney, who was also interjecting other excuses to water down what the conservatives on the board were trying to do. One wonders why a majority-Republican school board in conservative Beaufort County would not hire a local attorney to represent them, and why go all the way to Durham. That is particularly true since their school board attorney is presently or has recently served as vice chairman of the Durham County Democratic Party, one of the most leftwing units of the Democrat Party in North Carolina.

Well, "True Republican", what do you think of this nominally Republican school board majority hiring a liberal Democrat Party activist from half way across the state as our local school board attorney? Hint: he was recommended by Superintendabt Cheeseman.

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 6:20 pm By: John Steed

A poll of North Carolina parents found that 71% expressed concern about political indoctrination in public school classrooms. This issue came up due to the woke agenda being pushed in the schools, which is mostly leftwing fiction instead of real history. The so-called 1619 Project is a good example, and its creator has even admitted it is not real history. That is the sort of thing the left wants to substitute for real history.

What the woke want to do with our history is the same thing Chairman Mao did with Chinese history. As George Orwell wrote: "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 5:12 pm By: Steven P. Rader

If you’re saying that the founding fathers will not be discussed in social studies or history class in a BC schools then that would not be true.
My guess MAGA wants some fictional white fairy tale in place of a more objective view. The board said no. Panties got bunched.

MAGA headlines- you need an interpreter to figure them out

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 4:42 pm By: Big Bob

When Cheeseman's appointees gave the school board one curriculum to rubber stamp, they gave the board the Savvas social studies curriculum which was so "woke" that a standing room crowd of parents turned out to oppose it, scaring even Cheeseman's aliies on the schhol board so much that it was withdrawn. Then they produced the "woke" Bridges common core math curriculum, which Cheeseman's allies muscled through.

Cheeseman is a California liberal who is out of touch with eastern North Careolina parents. We need a school board which is no longer under his thumb.

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 2:38 pm By: Conservative Voter

We ended up with Mark Robinson as our Lieutenant Governor because the 2020 primary for that office had two major candidates, Robinson, whose comments supporting gun rights at the Guilford County Commission had gone viral nationally, and former State Senator Andy Wells of Catawba County, who was in thick with the green energy grifters. Republicans voted on issues, not race, and it was gun rights vs. "green energy".

Most active Republicans I know of voted for Dale Folwell as our nominee as governor, as he had a much better record on a broad range of issues. Unfortunately, Robinson had much better name recogmition with voters overall, partly because the media tended to cover him more than Folwell.

For the record, I voted for and supported Robinson for Lt. Governor in 2020, and voted for, contributed to, and supported Dale Folwell for governor in 2024.

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 11:19 am By: Steven P. Rader

So how did you end up with MR?

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 9:39 am By: Big Bob

You are the only racist on this board, Bobbie. Most of us see issues, not race. But, yeah, Hung Cao does rain on your socialist parade, doesn't he?

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 9:25 am By: Rino Hunter

Funny how racist white people will back any nonwhite who parrots their nonsense. Guys, this is how you ended up with Marky Mark. Get a clue.

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 9:13 am By: Big Bob

As of yesterday, in every poll available, Stein is UP 7% to 10%.
MR WILL NOT win this battle.

I don't care how many stars he has.
He should have withdrawn. The $$$ battle at the nutrition business is fraud. That is not going away. The bookkeeping, record keeping, the falsified info about family members in the business is not going way.

MR is destroying the ticket. Down balloting needs STRONG support at the top.
Our Council of state is at risk

And the Gen Assemblly leadership (who support MR) are doing nothing.

MR is NOT a Jesse Helms. He can't offset. His only pushback is DENIAL.
Stein is running a Jesse-type campaign. I'll give him credit He is DESTROYING MR on the air and now tying MR to Trump.

The NC COP is a mighty weak party and are kowtowing to the dems (by choice or inactivity).

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 7:36 am By: Jeff Williamson

Jann, Mark isn't going to lose the election because of his sexual preferences. He is going to lose because you cant attack people like Mark does while embracing the Black Nazi. What gives his skippy a stiffy isn't the point. It's the hypocrisy. It's the hate. It's the self loathing. It's the psychological instability a man like him projects.

Hate does far more damage to the hater, than the hated.

Commented: Monday, September 23rd, 2024 @ 9:30 pm By: Big Bob

This sounds like a movie that this board's resident race hustler troll ought to go see. Those women in the trailer talk just like he writes.

Commented: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 @ 8:26 am By: Conservative Voter