Comments | Eastern NC Now

We have three unelected bureaucrats in this county that have way too much power - the school superintendant, the county manager, and the city manager -- amd they all need to be cut down to size, at minimum, and even better replaced. The county manager rules due to an incredible weak county commission chairman who keeps lots of information from the full county commission. The school superintendant has not only a very eaak chairman, but a majority of the board are weak. The city manager is the flunky for Mayor Sadler, but may not even let Sadler know everything he is doing. Sadler, like Cheeseman, is a control freak. Our county would be a lot better off if all three of those bureaucrats were gone tomorrow.

The city does offer some strong candidates who will look out for the taxpayers such as Bobby Roberson, Tex Melton, and Gary Ceres. William Pitt and Lisa Peyton-Jones are also worth considering. Pitt stood up against Sadler's tax increase, and Jones at least talks right on those issues.

But we need out elected officials to do their jobs and not let the unelected bureaucrats have control. -

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 5:14 pm By: John Steed

Like Eric Trump is some big prize.

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 1:46 pm By: Big Bob

Continued..... If Dr. Cheeseman can give and take funding as he chooses, which he has been doing. it is going to be difficult for individual schools to be able to put in place classes, learning techniques, curriculum, clubs, etc that make their school desirable to kids and parents outside of their district. Dr. Cheeseman needs his reigns tightened before this is put in place. Or else the schools that they want to succeed will be the ones receiving the funding to do so. Yes, funding is based on population in the school. But that money goes to the school board to allocate and that board is run at the demands of Dr. Cheeseman.

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 2:11 pm By: BCCitizen

Its election time again, but it doesnt matter who we elect because the only thing that will change is the flavor of the corruption.

As long as we have a corrupt self-serving City Manager, the local corruption will continue. (Anyone checked his bank acct?)

Why is no one ever held accountable?
Because here and there, the people in govt, that are holding the dirt over each other, would rather hold it in secret, so that dirt can be weaponized to control each other, and silence each other.
The manager controls all the incoming info, and can keep that knowledge from the elected ones, so that they can claim "plausible deniability." Dem or GOP... it is the system.
The campaigners keep promising change and never deliver. They blame others. You all know this is true. I exclude Trump... he tried and is still trying to do the right things for WeThePpl. He is practically a martyr for the nation. God Bless Trump.

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 2:16 pm By: Washingtonian

"Benedict Arnold" Biden has given the Taliban $11 Billion in US taxpayer money since they took over Afghanistan and now wants to give a lot of money to the Hamas terrorist state in Gaza. That is not to mention the billions he has handed to the rabidly anti-American Islamo-fascist regime in Iran.

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:55 pm By: John Steed

The existance of any "loans" here do not track with Biden's tax filings. I am sure the House investigators will supoena any records from these folks that would document the existance of any real "loans" and will find none.

It would not surprise me to see Biden's corrupt DOJ try to investigate the Congressional investigators, just like they have been caught doing in a fishing expedition against GOP Congressional investigators who were exposing the Democrats' Trump / Russia hoax

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:45 pm By: Rino Hunter

HR, NPR stands for journalistic integrity. By any measure.

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 9:48 am By: Big Bob

All politicians Must reassess their position of all NGOs, where some are valuable, but most are special interest funding schemes.

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 9:14 am By: Stan Deatherage

What you have there is a smoking gun. The Democrats in the Senate care more about their far left politics than about integrity in government, so conviction of impeachment won't happen, but Biden should be impeached for his crimes anyway so the public can get a full view of his corruption.

They may get Biden like they got Al Capone, through his taxes. He apparently did not report his Chinese payola on his taxes, as a "loan" or as anthing else. However, given the corruption at the DOJ exposed with Hunter Biden's crimes, that will have to wait until we have an honest president, something we do not have now.

The American system of justice is so screwed up when we can have political nothingbergers trumped up against Trump to try to destroy him, and the Biden Crime Family gets away with major corruption because of a corrupt and politicized DOJ and FBI.

Commented: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 8:07 am By: Conservative Voter

"If the shoe fits, you wear it."

Commented: Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 @ 10:37 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, you can say 'Non Patriot' as many times as the laws of physics will allow, it wont make you right.

Commented: Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 @ 9:55 pm By: Big Bob