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Bobbie, you may have to call them "Comrade Commissar" if any of these loony left Democrats get in for four more years. "President" will no longer be the term they use. Gavin Newsome, commissar of the Peoples Republic of Californication is a prime example.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 7:20 pm By: Rino Hunter

You just don't get it, do you, Bob? Read my first comment on this thread. There is lots of crime among illegal aliens, but almost none among legal immigrants. They are generally coming from similar countries, so why is that? It is clearly not nationality or ethnicity. Part of it is their attitude toward the rule of law. Legal immigrants follow the law in coming to a new country and therefore respect it. Illegal aliens thumb their noses at the law and have no respect for it. Another factor is the legal immigrants are vetted so crimnals are weeded out or never apply in the first place. Illegal aliens know vetting at the border is very poor and criminals or terrorists can easily slip in.

Our legal immigration system provides good vetting and tends to attract productive residents. With illegal migration, that does not happen.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 2:50 pm By: borderhawk

I will never use the term US President again.
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Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 2:09 pm By: Big Bob

I was refering to reality, not your Gaia worship, Bobbie. Those "links" are all to articles written about serious illegal alien crimes.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 12:53 pm By: Rino Hunter

Gavin Newsom would be an acceptable candidate for King. But I don't see it.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 12:33 pm By: Big Bob

The disaster has been Slow Joe Biden, whether on the economy, foreign policy, or just about anything else. Trump ran a good and successful administration. And what do the Democrats have waiting in the wings? Gavin Newsome? He has been an ABSOLUTE disaster in California.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 10:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

At least the Tractor Supply corporate board recognizes they have a problem and need to stop the free fall in stock price. We don't need to forget they still have the same woke corporate board that enacted the DEI program to start with.

Considering BCCC, they and other educational institutions are a long way from really ending their DEI programs for show or otherwise. Also, remember that this is the culture educating our young people these days.

We need diversity of thought in public education badly. How can there even be real education going on when one extreme view is presented and virtually everything else is cancelled? We need to exhibit some real diversity in something important like hiring.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 10:03 am By: Van Zant

It would do you some good to look at the budget before assuming. The $1,134,319 increase from FY23 to FY24 was without SROS. The funding for SROs was already in the budget for the county. It just simply moves the expense from the schools to the Sheriff's office. I agree. The SROs was a big win for taxpayers. If you are fine with the irresponsible spending coming from their office, vote accordingly. Good stewards don't buy their desk staff $500 suits on the taxpayer dime. They don't throw $500 retirement parties for their dogs with the tax payers money. They don't stay in $350+ a night hotels when traveling on the tax payers dime. All of this is public information. Maybe you should look into it yourself before taking everything at face value.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 9:26 am By: BCCitizen

Hmmm! I wonder if Perry's wife laid down the law to him? It is a poorly kept secret that Perry has had some "extracurricular actitivies" in Raleigh. That seems par for the course with RINOs, as we saw previously with Tim Moore.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 9:02 am By: Conservative Voter

Crime from illegal aliens keeps exploding, but is rare among legal immigrants. The difference is vetting. Legal immigrants get extensive vetting to weed out the criminals and other bad eggs. Illegal aliens get no or almost no vetting, and many criminals, gang members, and similar undesirables get in easily in most cases. Venezuela was even emptying its prisons and mental institutions across our border.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 8:54 am By: borderhawk

Ding dong, the witch is dead! It is great to see this despicable liberal "Republican" RINO who prostituted himself to the special interests G-O-N-E. Good riddance! He is actually more of an Undocumented Democrat. Perry not only voted bad, he was one of the kingpins of lots of liberal causes like the NC Green New Deal, Obamacare Medicaid expansion, and casinos. He sold his soul to leftwing special interests for campaign money and lacked any principled bone in his body. A government watchdog group found that Perry was one of the top legislatiots on the take from casino and marijuana special interests in the entire legislature last session. Republicans are much better off without him.

Republicans will appoint a senator to fill the vacancy so the super majority will not be lost.

Commented: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 @ 6:42 am By: Rino Hunter

Hammonds got the SROs back for the sheriff's department after a pizzing contest between Coleman and Cheeseman got those positions taken away and given ao a rent-a-cop company. That is a plus all the way round. Yes, his budget is bigger as a result.

I hope we do not end up with a sour grapes "Republican" challenger who supported the Democrat in 2022 for sheriff.

Commented: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 @ 8:00 pm By: Conservative Voter