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I agree with one thing the so called 'truthful agitators' are saying. The voters ARE watching what is going on in Beaufort County. What Beaufort County residents with half a working brain see is a bitterly divided county Republican Party led by haters. They hate conservatives. They hate most natives. They hate the truth. They have utter distain for the party platform. They disregard procedures and rules, and they are capable of damned near anything.

When they want to exclude people from their clique, they will say or do whatever it takes to do it. In the case of HR, they can't stand having him in the party, so they make up some claptrap story about how an ex-officio member can be excluded.

Here's reality: Ex-officio members cannot be legitimately excluded, because they are there because of their position as ELECTED Republicans. Those ex-officio folks DO have a right to participate in the meetings, make motions and engage in discussions. They cannot vote unless they have been elected by the convention or by special election by the executive committee between conventions.

Hood is not the only local Republican being shunned by the present-day leadership cult. In the last convention they made controversial and hotly contested special rules so as to be able to cast off the people they don't like. That was a hostile departure from the wise practices set up by better leaders from the past. They also have special rules for themselves - which means they pretty much have NO rules for themselves! There are too many examples of that to bother listing. Fact is, there are 4X4 truckloads of examples of the backstabbing and hatefulness.

Don't believe me? Just ask some of the long-gone people that USED to be active in the local party what they think. There is an extended list of those folks.

Commented: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 9:22 am By: Van Zant

Have I denied a white person a job, housing, education, seating in a restaurant and bank loans (to name a few)/
the policies you supported and continue to support seem to have no problem doing that to people of color.

And you want to be my latex salesman....
you are the definition off a snowflake

Commented: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 7:30 am By: Big Bob

The illegal aliens among these mobs supporting the Hamas terrorists should be rounded up and deported. Those with green cards should be processed to remove their residency permits and they, too, should be deported. We do not need these tools of neo-nazi Hamas in our midst.

Commented: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 6:33 am By: borderhawk

The driving force behind this unneeded school is the Superintendant, who wants it for a resume item for when he seeks to move up to a larger and better paying school system. It is really about building a resume to benefit an individual, not building a school to benefit students. The sad part is that the majority of our school board are weak and easily controlled yes-men and yes-women who function as puppets of the superintendant. We need new school board members who will represent the voters and taxpayers instead of just representing the superintendant and his interests. This is particularly essential when we have a superintendant who is a total control freak like Cheeseman.

Commented: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 5:38 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Thank God for the wisdom of the few.

Commented: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 3:10 am By: Stan Deatherage

Will: Here is the crazy part. They are proposing to noisily build this unneeded school in a space adjoining the current Eastern Elementary, then tear down the school after the new school is built at a staggering price of 383.00 per square foot on land that is not at the highest point of the campus.

I have lived the vast majority of my life in Beaufort County, and the strict rule of thumb is that one always build on the highest ground available.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 11:33 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Still right.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 6:40 pm By: Big Bob

Steed: Truth be told, I'd say that Trump is the reason why the GOP is split three ways. You've got the everyday GOP, you got the MAGA Republican crowd and then you've got the younger to middle age crowd that's burning Trump on his wishy washy stance on the SARS-COV-2 "vaccines", his comments about how Israel ("New Khazaria" as it used to be listed on old maps) should be immune from the International courts and his "Freedom Cities" (the same thing as a 15 minute city but sounds better to the voter).

This presents a big problem that nobody talks about. Democrat numbers are low but so are Republican numbers across the board which is why Trump and Kennedy will push the third party. They know that the old system is effed and that most of their base/former base will not accept it because some of them are smart. They've figured out the consent is everything in this game and that if people dont consent, the dominoes will fall.

I'd be careful about pushing Trump. He's upset the wrong group.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 9:48 pm By: John Valley

I may have missed this information but I’m curious, if Eastern is demolished and it will take two years to construct the new school, where do the students from Eastern go in the meantime?

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 7:46 pm By: Will Simmons

Trump did a hell of a lot better at governing that Biden, and America was a whole lot better off.

WOKE - completely unprepared to govern.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 7:05 pm By: John Steed

Big Bob: You have many syndromes that range well beyond TDS.

Commented: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 6:25 pm By: Stan Deatherage