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Thank-you Hood for taking your valuable time to provide your always insightful perspective on issues that are a constant call for public involvement, in particular in this case, the education of future generations of productive citizens.

Commented: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 8:36 am By: Stan Deatherage

Today's Republican Senator John Kennedy is much closer to President John F. Kennedy than today's Democrats are. In President Kennedy's era, Republicans and Democrats would have agreed on all he is saying, but today's Democrats have marched off to the extreme left.

Commented: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 7:39 am By: Conservative Voter

Polls clearly show the American voters are fed up with the far left's open borders that are allowing swarms of illegal aliens to flood in, just like they are showing the same in Europe. Not long ago, most Democrats also followed the same ideas of border security that you now call "far right". Conservatives have not moved on that, and our position is still mainstream. It is the left that has moved to a far left position on illegal immigration. What part of "illegal" do you not understand, Bobbie?

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 9:17 pm By: borderhawk

I have purposely stayed out of City of Washington politics, even though I am taxed at the same huge amount of a tax increase - the highest one year increase in Beaufort County's modern times - just like all the rest of you Washington citizens must now suffer.

I was very careful about my vote this year, and yes, I enthusiastically voted for Gary Ceres, so did my wife, but that is all I wish to state at this point.

Good luck to all candidates; and this I have learned after to many years of seeking elected office: If you deserve to win this time, you probably will.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 9:13 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Emphasis on slim majority

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 9:01 pm By: Big Bob

Eillen, you aren't wrong. Most of the candidates simply have no issue positions at all which is shameful. My proposals (including actual ordinances I've written and want to see enacted) as well as my other views can be viewed on my website garyceres.com or you can e-mail any questions to me at ceresforcouncil@gmail.com and I'll answer as honestly and knowledgably as I can. Hope this helps.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 8:04 pm By: Gary Ceres

While this is a great concept since the EU court is pro-migration in a big way, I will believe Macron will actually do it when I see it happen. What really needs to happen throughout the western world is to cut off court jurisdiction over anything involving people illegally present in a country.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 7:38 pm By: borderhawk

When the Non Patriot Left refers to Speaker Johnson as: MAGA and Right Wing Fringe, I am certain that the slim house majority picked the perfect Speaker.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 6:53 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Johnson is the most conservative House speaker in decades and a member of the Freedom Caucus. This is a very positive development for conservatives and Republicans.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 6:40 pm By: Rino Hunter

Yeah, these terrible, lawless Republicans made phones calls, and some actually talked to people, possibly questioning why voting was stopped then restarted hours later.

In all seriousness NOW, Beaufort County finishes counting ballots during large biannual elections in less than 2 hours, every election now going forward with the equipment that Beaufort County Commissioners recently purchased.

Who knows, maybe Fulton County, and their many voting irregularities is the "hit dog that yelped," with all these voting irregularities planned for nefarious purpose.

Also, maybe Republican governor Kemp should have grown a pair some time ago.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 10:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, if you are referring to the phone call Raffensberger recorded from Trump that the Democrats make such a big deal over, if you listen to the whole thing instead of the snippet they push, he is making a point to Raffensberger about why he needs a full recount as the hurdle he has to get over is fairly small. There is nothing at all criminal about pushing for a full recount. Heck a LOT of Democrats have done that and then claimed to find new boxes of ballots in closets, trunks of cars, and whereever that just happen to be mostly Democrat. That has happened in several races for Senate, governor, or Congress. Never any criminal investigations but they have stolen a number of public offices that way.

I have never known of Republicans in recounts to claim finding "missing" ballot boxes. They have just wanted a second look to see if things were counted correctly. In Georgia, there were some really questionable activities in the election night count, especially the mail in ballot count for Fulton County, where they ran off the election observers. What was recorded on a security camera that they apparently did not know was filming was appalling to say the least.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 10:34 am By: Steven P. Rader

Those who are sadly destroying the American judicial system are the Democrats who are using it for power politics to try to destroy their political enemies. The things they now want to call crimes were not considered crimes in the past but they now make up their own interpretation of laws.

The Gore camp did a lot more to try to manipulate an election in 2000, than what the Democrats are claiming on Trump, but there was not even a hint of prosecution then. Some of the shananigans they were involved in to try to change the result in Florida, required the US Supreme Court to step in and shut the Gore Democrats down.

The Gore Democrats did not stop there. They tried to get members of the Electoral College to change their votes to Gore. Having myself been a member of that Electoral College from North Carolina, I well remember that. Somehow, they got my email address and that of other Electors and flooded our inboxes with emails asking us to break the law and not vote for Bush. They even got some phone numbers and harassed us by telephone. These were open solicitations asking us as Electors to break the law. Nothing was ever prosecuted or even investigated from that.

In Georgia, what President Trump was asking Raffensberger for was a full recount of ballots instead of the limited recount Raffensberger called for. That is what Trump is being prosecuted for. The Gore people were breaking the law in Florida in the course of an actual full recount, and they were soliciting presidential Electors to break the law. None of that was even investigated.

This is a new world in American politics of using courts to punish political enemies. Some are calling it lawfare, a take on "warfare". It is a disgusting perversion of our legal system.

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 10:14 am By: Steven P. Rader