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I must be a glutton for punishment, but here I am watching th Council meeting again. The one when Tyre raked Rorie over th coals for cutting off media comments. By this point, I'm thinking that when Rorie was fired, his 1st comment was THANK YOU!
But the whole night, I see character assassinations against Davis from th Council & even out of th audience. When I see Davis try to explain self, Brabo jumps, tells him he's out of order, while she allows Perreault & Horton to continue their hateful remarks against him.
My observations of this Council is that they r like a bunch of
cavemen grunting at each other abt whether th moon will rise that night. They dont have th intelligence or the vocabulary to communicate abt technical govt matters. The know it too, & so they beat around th bush constantly, especially Tyre...endlessly even confusing hmself. And Im straining to discern th pt.

The jokes on us!
Can we fire them ALL & start over again?

Commented: Friday, August 14th, 2026 @ 10:07 pm By: Washingtonian

Is it not grand irony that the Non Patriot Left accuses Mr. Trump of being an Authoritarian, while it is they that act as Fascists, and then govern as Authoritarians?

Possibly, the only standard the Non Patriot Left, and the Democratic Socialists possess is the "double standard."

Commented: Friday, August 14th, 2026 @ 4:24 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You mean for telling it.

Commented: Friday, August 14th, 2026 @ 12:49 pm By: big Bob

TruthBeTold: With all due respect, you have no credibility as a truth teller. You say, "The GOP is focused on the election for all Republicans." What a blatant lie. Garris identified herself under the heading Chairman Carolyn Garris of the Beaufort County Republican Party. She then publicly attacked an incumbent Republican candidate in an election season. The cat is out of the bag. She should at least apologize to Commissioner Deatherage and the general public. The Executive Committee should at least reprimand her. Frankly, the more appropriate actions would be an apology followed by a resignation or a dismissal.

Concerning the other charge: Many of us continued to vote for Kidwell despite his increasingly heavy-handed behavior locally within the Party and also within the community. I do not agree with his public attacks and demands on local conservatives in the press and bullying threats otherwise. I appreciate much of what he did in Raleigh as District 79 Representative - enough to continue voting for him. But I personally know several conservatives that did not vote for him this time around because of those escalating behaviors. Both he and Garris are fair game in the community on those issues. There is a different standard for the Party - there is supposed to be, but it isn't so in Beaufort County.

Oftentimes, you and your crowd seem delusional. As far as the truth goes, there is no truth in you.

Commented: Friday, August 14th, 2026 @ 8:50 am By: Van Zant

The present Republican Executive Committee has never supported all Republican candidates. Giving lip service is not support. You back stab conservatives and support the Hood and Stan haters. Political piety does not look good on anyone.

Commented: Thursday, August 13th, 2026 @ 10:15 am By: Hood Richardson

It’s time for everyone to put on their big boy pants and quit whining. The GOP is focused on the election for all Republicans. It is this platform that continues to attack good conservatives like Kidwell. You only got on the executive committee to cause chaos and discord. You never volunteer nor contribute anything. Don’t worry, the GOP will continue to support all Republican candidates and get Republicans elected. The GOP has no time to waste on your drama. Keep moving forward folks, we have elections to win.

Commented: Thursday, August 13th, 2026 @ 5:47 am By: TruthBeTold

Van Zant: Shirley Richardson contacted me this morning to render information that I am on the acrimonious receiving end of many slanderous attacks, all at the hands of the Beaufort County GOP, primarily on their Beaufort County GOP FB Page, a page that they are entirely responsible for ... So, I took a look, and was humored to find out that I am specifically being honored and accused of being you - the wise wonderkind Van Zant.

Also on the Beaufort County GOP FB Page, of which they are entirely responsible for, I am being slandered by a confirmed discontent of truthful living, who did part of a job for me, walked off without finishing, and then boldly attempted to shake-me-down for money he did not earn. This is outright slander, whereby when I was taken to court as the defendant to pay money I did, and never owed NOT owe, I, alternatively, won that case by representing myself, and the truth, Pro Se, thereby by winning by the plaintiff's desire for a Voluntary Dismissal of his case against me. That was his one smart move regarding his dealings with me.

A word to the wise: If you have the honor and responsibility to do work for me, you will not take advantage of me ... Likewise, I do all within my power to protect my constituents from the abject irresponsible stupidity that bad governing abjectly offers, and yes that is exactly how RINOs govern, and RINOs are at the core of the Beaufort County GOP.

The Beaufort County GOP promoting this scurrilous attempt to defraud me is how the Beaufort County GOP considers supporting me, and YOU, my constituents.

If the promotion of slander is how the Carolyn Garris's GOP affords me support, then this is not new ... The Beaufort County GOP politically slandered me in the 2022 General Election, and Carolyn Garris did absolutely nothing to rectify this transgression.

So, thank-you VanZant for spilling your constant truth about an impossible situation, where people who are NOT from here run the Beaufort County GOP like fools and petulant children. In fact, I am absolutely honored to be considered you, and furthermore ...

Carolyn Garris should resign her chairmanship for party disloyalty, plain and simple, for what she has become a party to in what has become of the once venerable Beaufort County GOP. Working to do Real Republicans great political harm is NO way to run a local county GOP.

Commented: Wednesday, August 12th, 2026 @ 9:52 am By: Stan Deatherage

These Garris-ites are the biggest hypocrites and gaslighters ever. They make a mockery of the Plan of Organization in ways that attack Conservatives and protect their friends. They've made it clear that their number one mission is to oppose Conservatives in both primaries and general elections. They will not deal with relevant party issues and will go to absurd lengths to keep from doing so. They have no shame about running the Executive Committee in the most crooked, non-transparent manner possible.

Examples of what I am talking about abound in these comments. Instead of working through these very relevant issues, they persistently harp on one personal attack after another (as shown by many of these comments). We get it. They hate Hood and anyone else with questions they do not want to answer. The problem is that hate is not reason to run an organization in the manner this one is being run. That's not a legitimate excuse.

They are actively and under the Party banner working against Republican candidates in a general election. That is the party disloyalty they accuse others of. This behavior is disgraceful.

I once hoped these people would blink and evaluate where they have taken the party. People in this for the right reasons would not have gone down this road. To say the least, their priorities are misguided and warped. Truely, their behavior is abysmal. People with other reasons than helping the community really should not place themselves in these positions. We all suffer harm because of it.

Commented: Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 @ 7:16 pm By: Van Zant

Rational Observer: As publisher of the platform, Eastern NC NOW, I can and will verify that Contributor Richardson has never hidden behind an alias.

If he had in the past, I would NOT be able to declare this truth.

Commented: Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 @ 1:58 pm By: Stan Deatherage

My problem with the Beaufort County GOP is that they do NOT support the current GOP Plan of Organization when it does not suit them to do so, and then they attempt to employ the GOP Plan of Organization in a hamfisted manner to deal with those pesky Conservatives that are in a position of their continual disfavor.

The crux of this inescapable dilema of grand hypocrisy within the Beaufort County GOP, as witnessed by real Conservatives, is simply that on the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, there are 3 Conservatives of varying qualities, and 2 undisputable RINOs, who loyally govern as the Center-Left /Left Coalition ... Those who swap votes to share power here in Beaufort County (that power shared with the 2 Democratic Socialists on the board of commissioners). These RINOs are in the continual good graces of the inner core of the Beaufort County GOP.

If you are concerned with higher taxation, and an end to Limited Voting here in Beaufort County, you will get NO help from the Center-Left /Left Coalition, which means the Beaufort County GOP, acting as an accessory to that controlling coalition of two abject RINOs and two Democratic Socialist, are entirely culpable in the non conservative governing on the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, where Conservative votes representing Conservative issues fail by a tally of 3 to 4 (those 4 votes being those of the Center-Left /Left Coalition).

Commented: Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 @ 1:13 pm By: Stan Deatherage

3/3 And there's some irony in lecturing everyone about democracy while labeling Republicans he dislikes "RINOs," Republicans he supports "conservatives," decisions he agrees with democracy, and decisions he dislikes dictatorship.

The BCRP doesn't belong to Carolyn Garris. It doesn't belong to the Executive Committee. And, despite what one might conclude from his columns, it doesn't belong to Hookwink Rhetoricson either.

It belongs to the Republicans of Beaufort County who chose to participate.

They showed up. They voted. They chose Carolyn Garris. Again, and again.

Perhaps the problem isn't that Chairman Garris refuses to respect democracy. Perhaps it's that Mr. Richardson has has difficulty respecting democracy when he doesn't like the result.

The writing is on the wall. Perhaps Hoodwink couldn't stay awake long enough to read it.

Commented: Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 @ 12:44 pm By: Katrina