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Mr. Richardson, what is the lie. Did I miss another party change? Was it twelve times not 11? If so you have my apologies.

Commented: Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 @ 7:55 am By: Rational Observer

Irrational and liar describe you perfectly.

Commented: Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 @ 6:27 am By: Hood Richardson

It is well past time for the two heads of the local Republican political machine to publicly apologize to Stacey Davis.

Enough has leaked out of that bat $hi# crazy episode to determine that Ms. Davis essentially did little more than retrieve stolen property taken from her child. The real villain in this is former BC School Superintendent Cheeseman who used the press to attack a School Board member he felt threatened by. The mystery is why Mr. Kidwell and Ms. Garris piled on so quickly and so forcefully. People are left wondering what that was about.

The doofus award should go to the Beaufort County School Board for never taking any action or position what-so-ever in the matter other than sitting like knots on a log like a bunch of knot heads. They should have reprimanded the former Superintendent and reined him in. The whole mess shouldn't have happened. The former Superintendent acted unilaterally leaving the Board out entirely.

Perhaps Kidwell and Garris should explain their motivations in this.

Commented: Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 @ 6:00 am By: Van Zant

It's a bit more complex than that. ICE is basically an untrained, masked secret police force, accountable to no one.

That has to end.

My advice, both sides will have to find a way to meet in the middle.

Commented: Monday, August 17th, 2026 @ 9:05 pm By: big Bob

The attempt to create a consolidated political machine is something to consider. It would explain a lot of the puzzles. Knowing history we know that a political machine will even side with mobsters if it means winning.
Thinking back, I see Kidwell and Garris calling for the resignations of Sadler and Stacey Davis. It was actually a statement from a police officer at a Public hearing, that made the defeat of Sadler by Brabo possible.
Then around that time, the City manager demotes the police chief. (Its why we dont have one today.) But that Chief didnt complain, and as a matter of fact, manager Russell then referred to him as a "team player." Others have referred to city employees as team players. Couldnt "team player" be another name for political machine member?

(I also recall the firing of Rorie due to convenient public statements from police.) What a Team!

Commented: Monday, August 17th, 2026 @ 5:17 pm By: Washingtonian

You know Hood, I often claim the real Republicans I know, and work with, such as yourself, as The Real Republicans. I reckon I may need to rearrange my vernacular since I NOw have been informed that my semantics of differentiating that quality of Republicans between what is real, and what is NOT has been hijacked.

Commented: Monday, August 17th, 2026 @ 1:57 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Washingtonian, what are those fake "citizen committees" lobbying for? What do we need to watch out for?

Commented: Monday, August 17th, 2026 @ 9:07 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Washingtonian, one constantly wonders about the hidden agendas in Washington city government. One is Sadler's crusade to get the mayor's job back, with Tyre and Horton his go-fers. Another is the longtime goal of the Sadler group for a DEI hire as city manager. To them, the worst thing about Rorie was probably the fact that he is a white straight male., so he simply had to go to make way for "social justice" That he kept the wasterful spending for those absurd DEI outreach staffewrs to blacks and Hispanics was not enough to save him.

As far as safety in the city, spending big bucks out of the police budget to hire those two DEI outreach staffers, which was done under Sadler wasted money that should have been spend on law enforcement. Why should our law enforcement budget become a slush fund for "social justice" nonsense?

Commented: Sunday, August 16th, 2026 @ 9:47 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

www.thewashingtondailynews.com

WDNs 7/24/26
“The city isn’t safe,” Interim Washington Police Chief Phil Rollinson said at a special called city council meeting."

Me: [Was this th statement that got Rorie fired, was it a mutiny...a threaten boycott against the city by Police and other Department Heads?]
WDNs:
"PoliceChief clarifies statement on city safety.
Washington's interim police chief walked back a “city isn’t safe”
remark after a tense council meeting over dispatch staffing, as
officials clashed on cuts & fired th city manager."
Rollinson: “So my issue is, can we continue to police th city
effectively & do what we need to do? No we can’t. The city’s not safe w the way we’re doing things right now,” Rollinson said. “The
current state of affairs is fairly dangerous in the city as it stands right now.”

*Those scary words in a *planned PUBLIC TRIAL* was all it took for th firing. Employees 1, Truth 0. GameOver

Commented: Saturday, August 15th, 2026 @ 11:45 pm By: Washingtonian

They sometimes say the problem is not corruption, but is negligence & sloppiness manifesting a bad City Govt.
At the same City meeting I was watchin, Rorie said City code was NOT being enforced equally. He appeared to say that th employees were told if they werent going to do th job then they werent needed here. Now I like this kind of talk. BUT was this why he was fired? Did the Bureaucracy fight back? Horton thinks the Council's job is to protect the employees first. Davis replied their job is to serve Citizens FIRST.
So now my question is WHY was Rorie fired? We werent told th facts. And it happened mighty fast. It seems no one but Tyrie & maybe Horton knew it was coming. But in 1 evening, he was fired. BTW, I dont recall Tyre being so vocally "opinionated" or trying to micro-manage while Sadler was Mayor. The status quo seemed 2b just fine w hm back then.
Let this b a lesson. Elected ppl, arent smarter than WeThePpl.
Often they were just at th right place at th right time.

Commented: Saturday, August 15th, 2026 @ 2:32 pm By: Washingtonian

Buzz: Your statement regarding the building of a better government, "An informed public would really help this," is where we start, and I am rededicating my energies to that maxim of building a better public to know what is real.

Commented: Saturday, August 15th, 2026 @ 8:43 am By: Stan Deatherage

Ray, you are right!

Irrespective of the the Plan of Organization; the older edition, or its most recent revision, the core of the Beaufort County GOP will NOT respect its contents enough to follow it.

Commented: Friday, August 14th, 2026 @ 10:16 pm By: Stan Deatherage