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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

It is a Democrat insider who reported that meeting with Obama and Klain (who is an Obama operative) with Biden over whether Biden stays in the race. He is probably someone with some knowledge of what is going on. What would really show it is if they try to make Michelle Obama the new nominee. That would stink to high heaven. Using Biden as a front man is elder abuse.

The Democrat insider said he expected that fundraiser in the Hamptons to get called off if Biden agreed to withdraw. The fundraiser went on as planned, so that suggests that there has not yet been an agreement for Biden to withdraw.

The Democrats are really stupid to do all of this so publicly because it shows his own party no longer has confidence in Biden.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 7:59 am By: John Steed

When people plaintively beg the answer: What is wrong with the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners? I most often just easily, honestly, thus simply answer - the Beaufort County GOP.

The Beaufort County GOP Executive Committee celebrates the machinations of this board of county commissioners' Center-Left Coalition, where a "paper majority" of 3 Republicans work in concert with just 2 Democratic Socialist Commissioners to create a working 5 to 2 majority of 3 RINO Republicans ("self-proclaimed bipartisan progressive centrists"), and 2 unabashed Leftists (Idiot Joe Biden sycophants), duly hold majority control of this board of county Commissioners ... The two remaining Conservative Republicans, with 51 years of Conservative governing experience between them, represent the minority position to hold the hardened line against fraud, the wasteful policy of the local burgeoning Bureaucratic Class, and the political tyranny of those, whose policies often are "Side'n' with Biden," rather than the political renaissance of Ronald Reagan, and now President Donald Trump.

In this unholy alliance, one that is not only wasteful in purpose, but tumbling out of control toward the Left's maniacal advocacy for Big Government and its Two Tiered Weaponization for local elites, all is achieved with the stamp of approval by the local Beaufort County GOP.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 11:20 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Oh andd here is the differences tan - in my previous post, 2 of my comments are verifiable facts, junk grabber and felon, and 1 is my opinion. lunatic

Your comments about JB - all option.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 12:19 pm By: Big Bob

Polling in an election like France's is tricky but these pollsters know the system and must have some confidence in their results. The two round system is what makes it complicated. A candidate must win over 50% to be elected in the first round, and there are a limited number of "safe seats" where that is possible. For the majority of seats, the two top finishers will face each other in a runoff a week later. Those pairings will be important. Where it is National Rally against the far left coalition, the National Rally will be heavily favored, but if it is National Rally against Les Republicains, the trend would be much more to Les Republicains. In the second round, voters whose own parties have been eliminated will mostly be voting what they see as the lesser of the evils or sometimes just staying home. The pollsters will certainly have polled second preferences of voters, something we used to do in our polls when I was advising pro-western parties in Moldova, even though Moldova did not have runoffs for its parliament.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 9:18 pm By: Steven P. Rader

That sheriff election happened in 2022 not 2020. From my understanding there were two sitting members of the county executive committee forced to resign due to their actively supporting the Democrat sheriff candidate while holding office on the GOP committee. They were Frankie Waters and Kerry Cox. I have not seen that contributor list, but any other current executive committee members who likewise contributed to the Democrat may not have been serving in party office at the time they made the contribution. WHile that might raise questions about why they were elected a year later, they would not seem to have the same level of conflict of interest if they were not committee members when they contributed.

As Americans, we have a right to support whoever we want to in an election, but if we hold office in one political party we have a moral duty to resign that office if we want to work for a candidate of the other party. An ethical person would resign from one before starting to work for the other. Personal integriry demands it. There is too much opportunity to sit in on a meeting where you hear confidential campaign information discussed that should not be passed to the other side.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 8:17 pm By: Conservative Voter

This phony, dishonest condition of the organized GOP seems to be a state and nationwide problem, but I must say Beaufort County has an especially virulent, mean-spirited version of it. With this present cabal in charge, they have gone from being not that significant to being a group doing much more harm than good.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 4:55 pm By: Van Zant

Why will nobody name the "Republican" commissioner who contributed to the Democrat sheriff nominee? His name is Frankie Waters, and yes, he is back on the county Republican executive committee. In fact, if you compare the contributor list for that Democrat sheriff candidate with the list of those elected to the current Beaufort County Republican executive committee, you will see more names on both of those lists than just Frankie Waters.

Somehow, all of those people were allowed to run for seats at the convention, but Tandy Dunn, whose exclusion was overturned by the state party, was not. When his precinct elected him precinct chairman, they were told they had to elect someone else or they would be considered an unorganized precinct. Why was he treated differently that those who wrote checks to that Democrat campaign? As the state party ruled, Tandy's exclusion was bogus and should never have happened in the first place, but he was the only one not allowed to run for office at last year's convention.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 11:42 am By: Rino Hunter

My opinions are my own.
On the issue of replacement I am undecided. I've always thought that the democrats were taking an awful gamble on JB's age. If he stays upright, JB will likely win...but at 80, it's a real crap shoot. Not a bet I would have taken.

Another point worth considering. Both camps are driven by ideology. Most democrats will hold their nose and vote for old and most republicans will do the same and vote for the convicted felon, junk grabbing lunatic.

Honestly if we cant find some common ground it will only get worse. The American experiment is standing on the edge of a cliff.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 10:00 am By: Big Bob

The thing I'm wondering about is if the commissioner in question that was asked to leave the exec. committee is now back on the Repub. exec. committee. I suppose he'll be running for office again as a Republican in two years.

What happened to Dunn really shows where this so called Repub committee is. They move against Dunn who did nothing wrong, while they reluctantly kindly ask a real traitor to leave for awhile, because his brazen treason act got attention.

It's easy to see why a lot of credible people refuse to have anything to do with this Repub exec. committee.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 10:18 am By: Van Zant

As I understand it, someone who was urged to resign from the exec. comm. for endorsing and writing a check to a Democrat sheriff candidate is now back on the exec. committee and is running for county commission again. Did I hear that right? If that is true, I guess anything is possible from these exec. comm. anti-conservative pro-Dem RINOs.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 9:09 am By: Van Zant

The doddering old fool Biden has always been Obama's sock puppet. America needs this Marxist gang gone. Obama is pure evil.

Commented: Saturday, June 29th, 2024 @ 7:08 am By: Bubba