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Stan: You have presented the crux of it: These fools do presume to tell the real Republicans how to elect commissioners. In fact, they presume to impose upon us all their salvation from limited voting in the form of their alternative which will be just as bad and is likely to give THEM even more control of the process. With this kind of thinking the average citizen is likely to be just as powerless, but his local masters will likely be MORE powerful. Yes, a real recipe for disaster.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 11:06 pm By: Van Zant

CBDC is something we definitely do NOT want but if the World Economic Forum gets there way (Build Back Better slogan), we can kiss America goodbye. What does Klaus Schwab say "you'll own NOTHING and be happy!" THEY will be happy but not the average person. Hello AI and goodbye people!!!

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 9:39 pm By: PK

Van Zant: The Beaufort County GOP is a total wash-out; however, they do work well for the RINO class, which was no where to be to found when the local party was built, because, at that time, they were then Democrats supporting Democrats - many of whom still are, just wearing the faux Republican cloak as an appropriated luxury of their image of grand fakery.

When the real Republicans built the local GOP from nearly nothing in decades past:

Almost three decades ago, the real Republicans worked diligently to initiate the filming of the commissioners' meetings as a real public service, which, in the stark truth of reality, revealed the true nature of how sorry some commissioners performed, including the emerging RINO class. Eventually the chief RINO, Frankie Waters, of this local faux and current GOP did what any good Democrat-who-switched-to-Republican-to-run-for-public-office-who-then-governed-as-a-Liberal-Democrat would do, "Fake Frankie" tried to kill the videography of the Beaufort County Commissioners' meetings ... transparency be damned.

With Stan Deatherage, ME, rejoining Commissioner Hood Richardson back on the board of commissioners, and bolstering the efforts to wrest this shard from the complete power paradigm of RINO Frankie, the all encompassing RINO was unsuccessful in his efforts in the complete destruction of this perfect transparency in Beaufort County's process of the People's government - the continued proper filming of Beaufort County's self-governing process.

Consequently, unbridled insanity is to allow these RINO fools the power to force feed the real Republicans of Beaufort County, those who are far more knowledgeable on so many levels, as to how to elect county commissioners here in OUR long standing home of Beaufort County ... NO!

Not as long as I draw good breath.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 8:52 pm By: Stan Deatherage

18% ... thats the overall price increase nationwide in aggregate since this abomination of a Presidency came to power.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 4:10 pm By: Gary Ceres

I'd also wager any amount of money that you've never personally met me. That's pretty much how it goes for 90% of the people who post negative things about me so I'm used to it and it comes with the territory of speaking your mind and not being afraid to cower to the left or the far right.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 3:54 pm By: Gary Ceres

Citizen X: Not to worry; as two very different people, The Hood and I will always be solid out of a mutual respect factor, and that foxhole factor of familiarity that goes beyond everything stereotypical; passes all manner of understanding for many folks.

I sometimes like to joke about how The Hood and I followed the Grateful Dead for some years, like a couple of swirling hippies with stars projecting from our eyes.

The truth of the matter is that I never followed the Grateful Dead.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 3:45 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I rest my case.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 3:15 pm By: Big Bob

Big Bob: I don't dream about this kind thing. This is nothing to me. You just write a bunch of stupid stuff that only idiots would give credence to, so I just point to the obvious.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 2:50 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Gary Ceres: Influence others for that at large plan, proposed by Hood, to elect the chairman and vice chairman.

This election plan would kill the Center-Left Coalition, a coalition that is absolutely forbade in the Republican Platform at every level of GOP organization: county, state and national committee.

That is just the real of it.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 2:34 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The very worst system is the one we have now, called limited voting. It is the same concept that the Red Chinese proposed in their negotiations with the British for the Hong Kong election system after the handover, and the British rejected as totally undemocratic. It is also a system that the appellate courts in the US have ruled cannot be imposed by a judge as a remedy in a Voting Rights case, unless all parties agree to it.

A true at-large plan with voters have full voting rights for all seats would need all the seats to run at the same time to pass muster with voting rights challenges. That is how the old Washington City School board was set up, during the period it had to get DOJ preclearance, and it passed with flying colors.

It is also true that four year staggered terms is absolutely the very worst thing you could have in terms of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials, because it always has about half the board with an intervening election before their seat comes up again. That means voters are likely to forget anything they do in the first two years of their term when they come up for election again.

There are plusses and minuses to both a district plan and a true at-large plan, but either is light years better than what we have now.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 1:54 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Stan I think your plan would be worth consideration if we do wind up passing the district referendum for having a chairman and vice chairman elected at Large.

Commented: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 1:36 pm By: Gary Ceres