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But will the voters allow it? Some places they will, but some places they won’t.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 4:56 pm By: Big Bob

Stan- Never call voters stupid. This is not the first time you’ve done it and maybe why the other 5 have a job.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 6:07 pm By: Big Bob

I agree. Dr. Blinson's experience and credentials carry more weight on this issue than anyone I know.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 9:34 pm By: Van Zant

Given this huge setback for Biden, and the fact that Bidens play hardball, will they respond by directing thier political hack judge Juan Merchan to put Trump in prison? This debate may be have set so early to gauge their need for that, and it is clear they need it. I would put nothing past the Biden crime family.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 8:41 pm By: Conservative Voter

Public schools are facing more competition. Building a monster sized school to warehouse children with likely worse outcomes is just going to make Beaufort County Schools less appealing and less competitive. Competition currently exists with surrounding county systems and with private and charter schools. Pamlico County is pulling lots of students from Beaufort County, but there are few students Beaufort County pulls from neighboring counties. When a student goes to school in a neighboring county, the state funding, thousands of dollars follows him or her.

Similarly, with the expansion of state Opportunity Scholarships, many parents will now have the ability to send their kids to private schools, and every time they do, that is more state funding per pupil that Beaufort County Schools loses. Would parents rather send their kids to be warehoused in Cheeseman's monster sized school or to a private school of managable size like Terra Ceia?

The Cheeseman plan will drive students away from Beaufort County Schools and certaily not attract any newe ones. From my understanding, population projections are for Beaufort County's growth to be west of Washington toward the Pitt County line. A new school of managable size there would attract students from Pitt County to make up for those lost, with their state funding, to Pamlico County.

But none of this matters to Cheeseman. He wants that huge elementary school on his resume. Even if Cheeseman insists on a huge school, eastern Washington is a really stupid place to build it. The lack of study and planning is glaring.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 4:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Actually Big Bob: The Beaufort County electorate is historically less informed on local issues than most other counties that are considered politically Conservative, so therefore, the voters here are not yet as conservative in their estimation of local issues, and they overall vote their knowledge level.

That will change as their taxes eventually start to rise due to continued bad policy by the Center-Left Coalition, endorsed by the Beaufort County GOP, and, consequently, worse budgeting of the people's money by these aforementioned bipartisan progressives, and for such a long time now.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 3:59 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I should add, that Stan and HR do the work of their constituents. Not accusing either of being goldbrickers. However the majority voters in BC do not agree with their position on the issues. Sure some do, but not enough, yet, to win the majority. That's why the other 5 have a job.

Its important to understand it's not a conspiracy, it's just that although the BC population is indeed conservative, it's not bat-sh*t conservative.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 2:57 pm By: Big Bob

This election cycle, it has been the Biden wing of the Democrat Party that has manipulated the process to try to exercise control, which is contrary to actual democracy. They changed the primary schedule to benefit Biden, bumping aside New Hampshire and Iowa because Robert Kennedy may have too much of a chance there and replaced them with a state they knew Biden would carry, South Carolina. Then they made it hard for any candidate other than Biden to qualify for the primary ballot. North Carolina was one of those states where the Democrats offered a Soviet style ballot with only one choice, Biden, even though other Democrats were actively campaigning. They rigged their own nomination process so blatantly that lifelong Democrat Robert Kennedy, from a major Democrat dynasty, had to bail out and run as an independent. What Democrats have done to their own nomination process is the antithesis of democracy.

Now some of the elite want to force Biden out and have a new nominee picked in a smoke filled room, where the pubic has no say in primaries. They even want to kick aside the number two on their team, Kamala Harris. One Democrat was reported as calling this a "soft coup" and an unprecedented very early debate may have been calculated for that very purpose. If they do this, they will have fully Sovietized their nomination process and Americans should run, not walk, away from the Democrat Party.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 3:52 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Thanks, leftist Big Bob for helping me make my point!

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 1:20 pm By: Van Zant

Big Bob Approved - Beaufort County's Center-Left Coalition and the Beaufort County GOP ...

Anyone shocked?

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 1:00 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Translation - 5 of the 7 do their job for the people who elected them. You don't sound well my friend.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 8:51 am By: Big Bob

I love you brought up the HVAC needs Hood. As I remember the School system spent ESSER funding to upgrade HAVC needs in the county at a savings to the local level Beaufort County budget. Talk about facts. Again Buzz open a school in the building outside of Washington and not charge kids to go if you would like to educate kids better.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 12:20 pm By: Bath parent