Comments | Eastern NC Now

Hood, the Victory Committee, like its predecessor the Campaign Committee of the local party, has never campaigned against any Republican nominee. Such committees ONLY operate during the general election campaign. In the last Washington City campaign, the Victory Committee promoted ALL of the Republicans running and promoted them equally. In many elections, like the one we are in right now, races that are more competitive will normally get more attention than races that are not competitive. With the bizarre limited voting system for county commission, it leaves all GOP "nominees" still running against each other in November, so it is hard to get involved in a practical way.

When it comes to candidates who are not Republican running against a Republican, party loyalty provisions of the Plan of Organization come into play about supporting such candidates. The state party sent out a specific warning on that applying it to officially non=partisan elections in 2025, and that was repeated at the Third Congressional District meeting. It was never an option for the party to support such candidates, regardless of how conservative they were.

Also, as to officially non-partisan municipal races, both parties have been getting involved in those as long as I can remember. The Mecklenburg County Republican Party was heavily involved in Charlotte city races, which were officially non-partisan, back when I was first elected to the Mecklenburg County Republican Executive Committee in 1973, and they had been years before that. So were the Democrats.

I have not seen the party's finance reports and cannot respond on those.

Commented: Tuesday, July 7th, 2026 @ 10:57 am By: Steven P. Rader

JV, so you think the immigration crisis was created by the GOP??? Are you smoking something other than a tobacco product? The globalists in Europe and North America have engineered the illegal immigration crisis. Here in the US that was Biden and the Democrats who opened our southern border. In Canada, it was Trudeau and the Liberal Party, now pushed by Carney.

Commented: Monday, July 6th, 2026 @ 10:13 pm By: borderhawk

By now, its probably been a couple of decades since I read that law schools no longer teach the Constitution. They only teach Precedent law.

Commented: Monday, July 6th, 2026 @ 5:47 pm By: Washingtonian

Foreign students at universities normally have to have a student visa to enroll. Why should illegal aliens have a more permissive standard than other foreign students?

That is also a good question about Beaufort County Community College and one that needs to be answered.

Commented: Sunday, July 5th, 2026 @ 7:38 pm By: borderhawk

I am, Bobbie. Summer is always the hot part of the annual cycle. We are heading to the beach shortly.

Commented: Saturday, July 4th, 2026 @ 7:15 pm By: John Steed

Steed: A "Conspiracy Theory" huh, bruh? I find it extremely hard to believe that you think countries aren't using or laying the groundwork for the implementation of Digital ID.... especially for "voting".

If anything, The Neo-Con Autocrats have been pushing AI and Biometric ID applications more than anyone else. They've made it very well known what they intend to do and how they intend to do it.

As my Great Uncle, retired Lt. Col, has always said: "Just because something has a US Govt letterhead on the top of it doesn't make it legit, it's mostly bullshit with sugar sprinkled on top. When they tell you they AREN'T doing something, they're doing it and they've been doing it."

I honestly don't get why some, not all, of the older Boomers, who trained my generation (Gen Y), are now calling us "conspiracy theorists" and breaking the very rules they taught us to follow. It's fkn insanity at it's finest.

Commented: Saturday, July 4th, 2026 @ 2:47 pm By: John Valley

This French mother is to be commended. There are way too many random murderous assaults by illegal aliens on local citizens in both Europe and America - stabbings, beatings, shootings, even multiple occurrences of pushing people in front of oncoming trains. Way too many rapes and sexual assaults, too. They all need to be rounded up and sent home. They are a menace to society. Deport! Deport!

Commented: Saturday, July 4th, 2026 @ 6:43 am By: borderhawk

When polls show younger people more inclined to socialism, it shows how the corrupted leftwing curriculum is corrupting the minds of our youth. We need honest and pro-American textbook companies, and we do not seem to have them currently.

Commented: Friday, July 3rd, 2026 @ 12:50 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Photo voter ID for voting is the law nationally in EVERY developed country EXCEPT the Untied States. In NONE of those countries has it turned into a sinister digital ID The argument that it might is just a conspiracy theory.

The problem is that we have too many fake voters on the rolls, especially illegal aliens. But it is not limited to that. The loosey goosey registration standards imposed by the Democrats have led to all sorts of abuses, like the California woman arrested for registering her dog to vote and actually coting the dog, then bragging about it on Facebook or the Pakistani man who had never even been to the United States also registered to vote and actually voting by mail in California.

Most countries also have a proof of citizenship requirement to register to vote. The US is an outlier in not having one yet. With the flood of illegal aliens in our country, we badly need one.

Commented: Friday, July 3rd, 2026 @ 8:25 am By: John Steed

"The true strength of a republic has always been found in the character of its citizens."
"The framers of our Constitution understood this well. They knew that freedom could not endure among a people unwilling to govern themselves. Laws may restrain outward conduct, but they cannot create virtue. Courts may punish wrongdoing, but they cannot instill honesty. Legislatures may enact policies, but they cannot manufacture integrity. Liberty requires something government itself cannot provide -a morally responsible people."

Let me DITTO That.
I felt this was well worth repeating, in case some of you missed it. If we want liberty, people must willingly police themselves.

Commented: Thursday, July 2nd, 2026 @ 10:01 pm By: Washingtonian

I am seeing more calls for ICE to re-focus on pregnant illegal aliens to get them out of the country and that makes very good sense in light of this idiotic Supreme Court ruling. Also to require pregnancy tests for all foreign women of child-bearing age at US borders.

Roberts relationship with an anti-Trump billionaire globalist radical raises real questions about whether he was bought in this case. Roberts is this week vacationing in that billionaire's palace in the Czech Republic.www.thegatewaypundit.com

Commented: Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 @ 2:53 pm By: Conservative Voter