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For every accident, injury and death these drivers that are on the road illegally because of him cause, he needs to be charged as an accessory to the crime and if it is death the families sue him for wrongful death.

Commented: Thursday, January 8th, 2026 @ 6:08 am By: Countrygirl1411

The Kidwell situation is a shame. I gather from my conversations with local conservatives that any support Kidwell is losing is due to three things: 1) His domineering the local party and shutting people out. 2) His attacks on local conservative officeholders. 3) His perceived primary support in the local primaries. All of these things are his choices. If there are reactions to those choices, that's on him. You can't expect people to be dumped on and then ask them to support it.

I don't know much about Armstrong. I do know people are wanting to hear from him because Kidwell has alienated them.

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 7:00 pm By: Van Zant

Rolling over bad guys before they can become "Bidens" is not a bad idea. If Armstrong does not work out he will be easier to roll than Kidwell.

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 4:55 pm By: Hood Richardson

From what I am seeing, Berger, Dixon, and their boy Armstrong are the ones to say NO to. If you are a conservative they have nothing for you. Armstrong seems to be little more than a special interest guy, just like them.

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 3:32 pm By: Rino Hunter

RALEIGH INSIDERS???? That is exactly who is trying to take over our legislative seat. RINO Raleigh insider Jimmy Dixon sought out a candidate in Beaufort County to challenge our conservative incumbent Kidwell. Dixon did so on behalf of another key RINO Raleigh insider, Phil Berger. Raleigh insider Dixon talked Armstrong into running, and appeared at his kickoff fundraiser. He brought with him another RINO Raleigh insider, Steve Troxler. Why are these Raleigh insiders monkeying around in OUR legislative race?

As to what impacts our lives, it is corrupt Raleigh RINOs like Berger and Dixon and their yes-men who are damaging our lives with their special interest hijinks like voting to allow biological men into womens restrooms and locker rooms, giving us the Green New Deal to raise our electric rates, giving us the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, trying to take away our fresh local shrimp with Shrimpgate, and lots of other bad things. They also stop good things like blocking key gun rights legislation, something both Dixon and Berger have their fingerprints on.

Armstrong would just be another yes-man for those Raleigh insiders. Ever wonder why they recruit people who have never been involved in politics? They are much easier for the political bosses in Raleigh to control than somebody experienced in politics. It that sense, Armstrong is very typical of their usual recruits.

That link is to an Armstrong press release written by his consultants and published verbatim. His statements are mostly pablum that any legislative candidate of either party could spew.

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 11:26 am By: John Steed

Can anyone here explain to all of us: Why there are so many RINOs here in Beaufort County, all of them playing their parts to force upward the amount of taxes we all pay, and, furthermore, why does the Beaufort county GOP support these RINOs and disparage the conscientious and wise Conservatives - like Stan and Hood - who work diligently to keep our taxes lowered, and make America ... America again?

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 10:07 am By: Richard Marvin Butkus

Armstrong is not a politician. He said he had never run for office before. So he is sociable to all humans he comes across, unlike the big talkers here who perceive themselves as RALEIGH INSIDERS and who try to manipulate we local yokels, as if we were too dumb to know that our happy lives depend more on how we are treated by govt locally than in Raleigh.
Read the link: He said:
"Armstrong also emphasized the importance of improving representation for the region in Raleigh. “I hope to build relationships and improve opportunities for District 79,” he said. He added that he has never run for office before, marking this as his first campaign for public office.
JUST SAY NO TO KIDWELL!

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 8:39 am By: Washingtonian

Armstrong "doesn't know Berger"??? While he may have plausible deniability on that, it is only because Berger went through liberal House RINO Jimmy Dixon to do most of his House recruiting, as well as at least one Senate recruitment. Dixon has openly boasted of identifying Armstrong as a potential candidate and talking him into running. Armstrong cannot deny knowing Dixon because Dixon was present at his fundraiser, along with uber-RINOs Frankie Waters and Steve Troxler. That threesome, Dixon, Waters, and Troxler were his guests of honor. When conservative Republican US Senator Lauch Faircloth, whose background was in farming, ran for reelection to the senate, liberal Troxler was chairman of Farmers for John Edwards, supporting the ultra-liberal slick Raleigh lawyer against Faircloth. Since he supported liberal John Edwards against an incumbent conservative, I guess it is no surprise that Troxler is supporting Armstrong against one of the top conservative incumbents in the NC House.

Armstrong "a Republican"???? I guess technically so in the same sense that Frankie Waters was "a Republican" when he ran for commissioner. Prior to that they were longtime Democrats. Armstrong was a Democrat while he lived in Hyde County, and a major contributor to Democrat kingpin Marc Basnight. So a Marc Basnight Democrat is now trying to reinvent himself as a "Republican"? Shades of Frankie Waters. We have seen that movie before and we know how it ends. The "values he grew up in" were Democrat values. Is that what he wants to preserve?

"Protecting individual freedoms"???? Two of his special guests at his fundraiser have a history of opposing gun rights, Steve Troxler and Jimmy Dixon. Dixon was the leftwing scoundrel who killed the Constitutional Carry gun rights bill in the present legislative session.

They say "birds of a feather flock together" and when Armstrong chooses Frankie Waters, Jimmy Dixon, and Steve Troxler as part of his flock, it speaks volumes.

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 7:31 am By: John Steed

Let’s check your vetting record. One candidate you recruited went to file to run for school board and wasn’t a registered Republican. He had to run as an unaffiliated. The other candidate you recruited to run for school board was not even registered to vote. She had to register before she could file. There is more but I think you get the point.

Commented: Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 @ 11:49 pm By: Truth Be Told

I am told that there was a school board candidate from Chocowinity who came to speak to the conservative club some time ago and did not impress many people. I would have my doubts about his getting their support. The House primary is another question mark. Purely on issues, Kidwell would be the clear choice for any conservative, but he has ruffled some feathers on internal party matters and some may push for the Phil Berger recruited challenger which would be unfortunate.

Commented: Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 @ 5:11 pm By: John Steed

Van Zant: The commenter - Truth Be Told - may not be a RINO; rather, I believe "Truth Be Told" is actually a Democrat, or a Democratic Socialist.

Democratic Socialists have told me that they are very happy with the RINOs holding the majority on Beaufort County Commision as they have forged the Center-Left / Left Coalition to serve as lackey's of the Bureaucrat Class and other Special Interests.

"Truth Be Told" writes in the vernacular of a RINO, but I think their poorly considered words, moreover, represents the aspirations of the Democratic Socialists of Beaufort County.

Commented: Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 @ 12:29 pm By: Stan Deatherage