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I agree that Coleman did not take the losing of his primary lightly. However, Hammonds campaigned heavily on cutting the budget. Ernie was the big spender. Hammonds spends millions over what Coleman spent in his office. The budget is a public document. Look at it. He buys $500 suits for his office staff (not LEOs). He spent 20,000+ on the app that he took from the employees incentives. He took the Drug unit off the streets for the most part giving them no overtime and 3 guys. Their unit was 6 sets of boots on the ground when Ernie was in there. He took one of his captain positions and moved his retired ST buddy over the SROs and split the drug unit and cid captain position. The approved SROs (12 positions) actually consists of 14 positions because he took a captain and lieutenant position from other departments and moved to SRO department. He does what he wants. He has 30ish positions open in his office. I wonder why?

Commented: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 @ 12:08 pm By: BCCitizen

My Dad was a self-educated man who had a lot of common sense. One thing he taught me, which I have always remembered, is "Consider the Source". We would do well to do just that as we read or listen to the internet.

Commented: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 @ 10:21 am By: Buzz Cayton

Most people in the world would not meet your definition of a Patriot. Thank goodness. Again, that's why the other 5 have a job

Commented: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 @ 9:49 am By: Big Bob

My takeaway from this is I prefer a more systematic approach to decision making like Dr. Blinson has laid out here. I acknowledge that way of planning is a rarity these days.

As has happened several times since I've been interacting on this site, the discussion of whatever issue being dealt with has been overridden by what seems to be a very bitter personal battle where reason and logic is nowhere to be found. On a previous discussion I found it necessary to do some personal research in order to have some idea what was being argued - in that case it was the legality or illegality of banning ex-officio members from the Repub executive committee.

I've had to do personal research again about the animosity going on in this strand. This keeps going back to the present-day BC Repub executive committee and the hatred they have for the Beaufort County Conservative Club. It seems that the current officers of the Repub Executive Committee are relative newcomers to the area - a little over or a little under a decade or so in most cases. The roots of the Conservative Club go back several decades to a time where they started as the Beaufort County Republican Men's Club. There was a time when both groups worked in the Republican Party albeit with some tensions. In recent years the newcomers decided that the conservatives had to be outright banned from the party, so we now in effect have two hostile Republican groups: The official Republicans who operate under a sort of loose association with official Republican stated principles and the Conservatives with a more serious adherence to stated Republican principles.

It seems the executive committee folks view the conservatives as demons or worse while the conservatives are wondering just who these new folks are that want to dictate who they can associate with and what they can think and say.

The Republican Executive Committee meets monthly on the second Thursday at 6:30 pm at the Republican HQs. The Conservative Club meets on the third Thursday at 6 pm in the King Chicken meeting room. I'm thinking about checking both out, but a little voice in my head keeps insisting that may a very bad idea! Oh well, there's still the bunker.

Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 7:25 pm By: Van Zant

What makes NC health care so expensive is the Certificate of Need (CON) laws that stifle competition. Most states have repealed them, but the special interests that benefit from them in NC are thick as thieves with NC legislative leadership, Phil Berger and Tim Moore, and that includes possible Moore successor Destin Hall.

Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 3:26 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Big Bob: I have taken tens of thousands of votes over many decades vidicating my forward vision, which is comparatively pristine, right along with the forward vision wisdom of Commissioner Hood Richardson.

Just because I see far more clearly than people like yourself, do NOT ever believe that you have the correct wisdom to ever lecture me just because you are a Leftist, and one who constantly defends your purpose in why voting for STUPID people to represent YOU in this self-government is a good thing.

Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 10:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, you still struggle with the difference between truth and opinion.

Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 9:38 am By: Big Bob

It looks like there is a little group that hates Hood Richardson so much that they are in Cheeseman's hip pocket. Don't confuse them with facts because their little minds are already made up.

Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 8:28 am By: Bubba

Credentials and knowledge matter. Dr. Blinson's background shows he has it. On the other side running this circus is a gang of three, two of them complete know-nothings on school construction, and one with a personal agenda of resume building and only limited knowledge of what he is doing.

On the county commission, while some people have knee jerk opinions of people because they don't like them politically, one again has to look at credentials. As an engineer, Richardson has been involved with many substantial building projects and knows all the professional and technical aspects. Frankie Waters knows little to nothing about construction and has questionable business ability. After all, the old Tri-County Telephone went under during his stint as its chairman and had to be sold to an outside company to keep it from going bust. Waters is the perfect know nothing for Cheeseman to control.

We need to look at credentials, not who we like or don't like politically.

Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 7:08 am By: Rino Hunter

Bath Parent: Is lying thus stupidity your stock in trade?

When I know someone is a liar and stupid, it always colors my perception of their every ignorant word uttered.

If you slander me, or knowingly someone else on this platform again, I will cut you off as I do all lying fools, who generally makes little sense because of that whole lack of knowledge thing, which does appear to be your first nature.

This Just In: The Slanderer Bath Parent and County voter appear to be the same fake entity, with slightly different emails that are also ... Surprise! ... Surprise! ... Fake ... So, I will intuitively check this character, from here on out, far more closely, and will stop all future slanderous ignorance, with or without fake emails, which is absolutely against our long standing policy on both counts - the Slander, Lying thing, and the Too Fake thing.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 9:49 pm By: Stan Deatherage

CT-how are you going to pay for it?

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 4:54 pm By: Big Bob