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Greg Murphy voting to use our tax dollars to fund organizations that "trans" children is just despicable. He badly needs a primary. Glad he will no longer be representing Beaufort County.

Commented: Friday, January 23rd, 2026 @ 5:33 pm By: Rino Hunter

Van Zant: Your have the zing of pure truth, and they are most welcome on this publication.

Commented: Friday, January 23rd, 2026 @ 6:23 am By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, my apologies. I had forgotten you were in that election, too. Of course, reelecting you would be the first priority for conservative, then Kidwell. Frankie Waters should have been the top choice for defeat, however. Waters was as phony as a three dollar bill from the very beginning. With this crazy limited voting system, my one vote this election will be for Stan Deatherage. Ditto, all the votes in my family.

Commented: Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @ 8:12 pm By: Rino Hunter

Actually RINO Hunter, in that specific primary election, Beaufort County Conservatives would have been far better served if folks had just voted for Stan, even though I was the presumptive front runner, rather than split their familial voting pattern to get another possible Conservative to help Hood and Stan. Plus, over 50,000.00 was spent to take me out, and in the clarity of hindsight, it was a concerted effort by both the RINOs and RINO Whisperers to do so. I well know that now

Yeah, the county Conservative would be far better off if my constituents had NOT split their votes; just voted for Stan, and, with my assured election, knocked out at least one of the RINOs /RINO Whisperers in that 2014 primary election.

Ask Hood, who was the lone Conservative on that board for 4 years once the local GOP helped take me out. and he will tell you the exact same thing I just related about that infamous 2014 primary election.

What did I learn? I need all votes I can get in this upcoming 2026 Republican primary, or you may, once again, lose one of the two Conservative leaders. With Limited Voting, any crazy happenstance may occur. So. vote for Stan Deatherage, and let's defeat the RINOs and the RINO Whisperers this time around, 8 years later.

Commented: Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @ 6:41 pm By: Stan Deatherage

That's absurd alright. The Forrest woman has said so many whacky things. I remember her writing something like, 'the old white-headed men that built the local Republican Party want to sexually assault Ms. Garris.' As I remember it the statement was either preceded or followed by a laundry list of hateful names that we usually get from only the nuttiest of the Democrats. She seems very angry at people that hardly even know who she is. The old girl is lost in space and has no credibility whatsoever.

There is so much here in the article. One thing that stands out to me is that Ms. Garris accuses Adam O'Neal of portraying himself as the Beaufort County Republican Party when he doesn't, and she claims to be the Beaufort County Party when she isn't. She seems to be both diabolical and delusional.

Another thing: I imagine Ms. Garris has erased most of the names of the executive committee members elected from the last county convention that she does not approve of. As we see she is still working that process. Other members that are never seen unless a vote or motion is needed (like Knox) are kept around for insurance. It has long been suspected that this category of member has a perpetual "excused absence" while others are being either illegally forced out or confused out by the ever-changing dates and locations of the meetings. It is getting to be a long time since there has been an actual meeting.

As anyone can see just from this article these are only a couple of the TONS of corruption going on within this party under the current leadership.

Commented: Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @ 5:28 pm By: Van Zant

Since Frnakie Waters thought Darren Armstrong would be his type of commissioner and now thinks he would be his type of legislator, should any thinking conservative follow Frankie Waters' path?

Commented: Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @ 11:25 am By: Bubba

Dave Hudson: Just to Reiterate a salient fact that was not mentioned in this post, Jody Forrest often told bystanders visiting the local GOP Headquarters that "Stan Deatherage is NOT a real Republican; but a RINO!" Whether, it was a primary, or a general election that I was a candidate for, this was said by her, and recounted to me by various people, on many occasions.

The grand hypocrisy here is that Jody generally supports Democratic initiatives, which cut against the grain of Conservative leaders, who wish to cut down the size of inefficient, bloated local governments here locally, and beyond.

Jody Forrest, like so many of today's RINOs and RINO Whisperers in the Beaufort County GOP, were nowhere to be found when we, Conservatives, built the Beaufort County GOP to a point, where even these Democrats that Ms. Forrest favors and consorts with, Republican Imposters all, could switch parties, get elected as Republicans, and then govern as the Democrats that they are to their core being.

These imposters are perfect examples of RINOs, those who enact acts of Party Disloyalty on a regular basis due to the inescapable fact that all RINOs are, at their core, political frauds, and thereby govern as such.

Commented: Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @ 8:08 am By: Stan Deatherage

In this election cycle, Frankie Waters 1) tried to recruit Darren Armstrong to run as a RINO county commission candidate, 2) accompanied Darren Armstrong to the Board of Elections when Armstrong filed for NC House, and 3) was one of Darren Armstrong's special guests at Armstrong's kickoff fundraiser, along with Raleigh RINOs Jimmy Dixon and Steve Troxler.

Did Waters contribute in the past to Kidwell in general elections against Democrats? Yes, but Waters also contributed to the Democrat candidate for sheriff in 2022, for which he was forced to resign from the local GOP executive committee for party disloyalty. Also, the first year Waters ran for commissioner, he and his wife contributed to a liberal Democrat legislator running against a conservative Republican

When it comes to contributions, we should also remember that Darren Armstrong was a "heavy hitter" major contributor to liberal Democrat state senator Marc Basnight but has never given a dime to a Republian legislative candidate. If that does not tell you what he really is, nothing will.

Commented: Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 @ 5:23 pm By: John Steed

Stan: That's the thing. The Beaufort County GOP is not only of NO use to the re-election of proven conservative Republican candidates they are in opposition to those candidates.

There will always be groupies that slobber over the goons running the party so unethically and illegally. I hope the general public is catching on to how fraudulent these people are.

Commented: Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 @ 2:02 pm By: Van Zant

There is a better word than "blather" for Armstrong's stances. It is "boilerplate", things so general that any candidate of any ideology could run on them. Come on! "Economic growth and preserving local industries"???? What politician would ever be opposed to those generalizations? All of them could also sign on to "preserving individual freedoms" but they would have different meanings. To a liberal that would mostly be about a "right" to an abortion or to welfare. To a conservative, on the other hand, it would be about right to life, freedom of speech, and gun rights. Same generalization, very different meanings.

Armstrong is campaigning on boilerplate, not real issues.

And, Washingtonian, you write like you are funded by one of Phil Berger's PACs.

If you want our legislature to be dominated by establishment hacks, Darren Armstrong is your man, but if you want someone who takes conservative stances and fights hard for them, Kidwell is the only logical choice.

Commented: Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 @ 11:19 am By: Rino Hunter

Washingtonian, that is exactly the type of blather that the establishment ALWAYS spews. Armstrong's old buddy liberal Democrat kinppin Marc Basnight could have easily said the same. Armstrong is an establishment hack, and so, apparently is Washingtonian. No wonder the Raleigh RINOs got him in the race. He would be a perfect puppet for them in Raliegh, not a fighter for conservative principles like Kidwell. Armstrong would not recognize a conservative principle if one jumped up and bit him on the ass. Anyone who would write four figure checks to the likes of Marc Basnight is NOT NOT NOT a conservative. PERIOD.

If you are voting "anybody but Kidwell": because you have your panties in a twist over his personality, why don't you just admit it?

Commented: Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 @ 9:43 am By: Conservative Voter

VOTE YES on ARMSTRONG! A BETTER FUTURE!
A lifelong farmer and business owner, Darren Armstrong & his family operate a seed conditioning business, noting that agriculture has long been a central part of his life. He is married to his wife, Dawn, & they have three sons: Jonah,Braden,Trent.

Armstrong is deeply involved in civic & community orgs. Currently, he serves as a deacon at Pike Road Church of Christ, chairman of the PungoChristian Academy Board of Directors, a trustee for Beaufort Co CommunityCollege, & a board member for the CornGrowers of NC.

His past civic involvement includes serving on the Hyde Co FarmBureau Board of Directors, the Hyde Co Soil & WaterBoard, & as chairman of the Hyde Co Chamber of Commerce. He has also held leadership positions w the Blacklands FarmManagers Assoc, US GrainsCouncil, Maizall, & the CornGrowers of NC, where he served as chairman.

If elected, priorities focus on economic growth,
preserving local industries & protecting individual freedoms.

Commented: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 @ 7:19 pm By: Washingtonian