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Washingtonian, The thug-ocracy around Sadler and Tyre has made this town a pint-sized banana republic. Their goon squad sent to intimidate the customers and employees of Fritz' restaurant and then to go to Fritz' home in Smallwood to threaten his family was reprehensible. Their campaign on the internet to intimidate Joe Davis is reprehensible. It is still unclear what their approach to Perrault may be. They are trying to marginalize Brabo.

Citizens need to rally around the elected officials not subservient to Sadler and Tyre. We need an end to this era of dirty local politics.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 @ 7:11 am By: The Shadow

We need a good Senate and House cleaning.

Commented: Sunday, May 17th, 2026 @ 7:13 pm By: Buzz Cayton

The Sadler clique seems to be going after those who won the 2025 city election. What they did to Nick Fritz is appalling. They are also clearly targeting Joe Davis in a different way. One wonders what cards they have played with Perrault to get him to participate in the attacks on Joe Davis? Brabo, Davis, and Parrault are all on the target list of this power mad group, and if they are smart they will all comprehend that they need to hang together so that they will not hang separately. The first part of that is for Perrault to recognize that he needs to get off of Tyre's bandwagon. They want to end his political career as much as they do those of Fritz, Davis, and Brabo.

Commented: Sunday, May 17th, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By: Conservative Voter

Someone posted that the pressure on Nick Fritz was a possible boycott of his business, It was worse, a lot worse. It reflects the thug-ocracy Washington lived under until last December and that wants to come back to power in the worst way.

What happened at Fritz' restaurant was that some thugs showed up to harass customers. They were big burly guys of the same ethnicity as Sadler and Tyre. At first they just hung out in front of the restaurant intimidating customers. Then they started coming inside, raising a ruckus, and harassing his employees as well as customers.

What could Fritz do? If he took any action, they would undoubtedly scream "racism". Anything he did would hurt his business. Then, it got worse, the same thugs started threatening his family. No elected official signs up for that kind of treatment.

The head thug now seems to have left town, probably using his intimidation tactics on someone else. Washington has lost one of its best council members in some time.

Commented: Saturday, May 16th, 2026 @ 8:04 am By: The Shadow

One thing that many Conservatives have forgotten:

Pat McCrory was declared winner of the 2016 Governor's race UNTIL Cooper contested the election results due to votes "mysteriously found" in Durham County. The polls even shut down for several hours during that election, everybody knew they were "stealing" it when it happened.

This has nothing to do with HB2 but it did, the insurance companies. McCrory was the roadblock preventing the monuments from being pillaged for insurance purposes. Cooper, of course, knew this.

McCrory also wouldn't have gone along with the whole COVID narrative. Cooper also knew this too; McCrory costed him more money than he made him.

In an alternate timeline, folks would have raised hell about Cooper throwing the election and asked hard questions. The outcome would have been completely different.

Commented: Saturday, May 16th, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By: John Valley

Ken Paxton is a great conservative. He has been an outstanding Attorney General and will make a great US Senator. John Cornyn needs to go.

Commented: Saturday, May 16th, 2026 @ 11:32 am By: Rino Hunter

The worst thing was Roy Cooper actually marching with the BLM insurrectionists and giving them a green light to vandalize historic monuments on Capitol Square.

Commented: Friday, May 15th, 2026 @ 8:00 pm By: John Steed

How about Zip Guns?

Commented: Friday, May 15th, 2026 @ 8:29 am By: Buzz Cayton

There should also be criminal complaints filed with the magistrate in these situations. Criminal warrants should be prosecuted against a biological male undressing in a girls locket room with girls present, exposing himself and watching them for 1) indecent exposure, and 2) peeing tom/. Lock them up! And why would the principal who allowed that not be an accessory to those crimes?

Commented: Friday, May 15th, 2026 @ 8:40 am By: Rino Hunter

Biden officials allowed illegal aliens covered in gang tattoos, TdA, MS13, and others to enter out country through their open borders. America citizens pay the price of the resulting crime. Biden era immigration officials need to be prosecuted.

Commented: Thursday, May 14th, 2026 @ 2:43 pm By: borderhawk

It is inconceivable to me that our local governments do not seek applicants for top management positions from the private sector. When I served in the Jim Martin administration in state government, almost all of our top management personal got their management experience in the private sector, NOT the public sector, and it worked fine. The bigger the pool of applicants for a local management job, the more choices the governing body has.

Commented: Thursday, May 14th, 2026 @ 1:22 pm By: Steven P. Rader