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No wonder RFK, Jr. switched to run as an Independent. There is not much internal party democracy in the "Democratic Party". It is nothing but a Biden machine, and they are trying to play undemocratic hardball tactics against Republicans, too like Stalin Show Trials against Trump.

Commented: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 7:32 am By: Rino Hunter

Bubba, it is quite common for there to be credible arguments on both sides of a legal question. In government, policy differences and issues of power and control between various levels of government are often dealt with as legal issues, and can often be argued from either side. That is why it is important in a government office to have attorneys who are on the same policy wavelength as the elected decision makers.

I served as General Counsel of the largest department of NC state government in the Jim Martin administration. At the end of administration, with an incoming Democrat administration, the new Democrat governor removed every departmental general counsel in state government, because we were all Republicans, even though in most cases they did not have a new appointee ready to fill the offices.

Another example is the relationship between attorneys for the Martin administration and the Democrat Attorney General. We often took different legal positions based on policy differences. Indeed, Governor Martin's Chief Counsel sent out a memo stressing that no agency in the administration should request an Attorney General opinion on any significant matter of policy but should issue our own departmental legal opinions instead. Three times, when lower agencies within our department unilaterally submitted something for an AG opinion, I had to write departmental opinions taking the opposite legal position. All three times those conflicting legal opinions were reviewed by higher authorities, and each time our departmental legal opinion prevailed over the AG opinion.

There are lots of conflicts in the law, caused by such things as differing statutes, differing opinions of the meaning of statutes, interpretations of appellate court decisions, and the like. Sometimes the law is very clear cut with no wiggle room, but very often, statutes and court decisions have have widely varying interpretations.

When it comes to public schools, DPI wants to control as much as they can, and sometimes is overbearing in its overreach. I remember 40 years ago, when a fellow member of the old Pitt-Beaufort Conservative Union, who was a conservative Democrat and served as school board attorney in Pitt County commented at one of our meetings about how the best way to deal with DPI's demands that local schools do or not do something was to challenge their legal authority to make the demand. Very often they did not have the authority they asserted, and they backed down. Indeed, quite often they did not even respond to his challenge to their authority and the local schools just kept doing things the way they wanted. Having a local school board attorney who is willing to stand up to DPI and assert the local school board's position is something every school board should do because the law is often not as clear cut as DPI would like.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 9:23 pm By: Steven P. Rader

As usual, your information is very outdated, Bobbie. There is only one of the Koch brothers still alive. When the Koch apparatus went all-in on supporting illegal immigration and amnesty, and partnering with groups of the left to do so, they made themselves persona non grata among conservatives. The surviving Koch must have gone senile.

The Koch candidate for president, Nikki Haley illustrates just how far off track the Koch organization has gotten. Haley has said we should look to the desires of big companies on what to do on immigration, while she also wants to stamp out internet privacy.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 6:33 pm By: borderhawk

Trump said “They’re coming after you — and I’m just standing in their way”.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 5:22 pm By: Countrygirl1411

Big Bob: CRT or DEI is not about about race, it is about stupidity, and, ultimately, just how far the Non Patriot Left thinks they than thrust this special brand of contrived ignorance down the throats of real Americans.

I am sorry that you are mixed up in this bonecrushingly stupid initiative. I will be watching closely to make sure our local public schools, funded by tens of millions of local tax dollars, is not.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 4:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You are right Bubba, we just haven't been successful. Yet.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 4:18 pm By: Big Bob

Its not, and you're bordering on crazy.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 4:21 pm By: Big Bob

Speaking of Attorneys, does everyone know that our City of Washington Attorney was reprimanded by the NCBAR?
www.ncbar.gov\Holscher,%20Franz%20Rep%2019G0115.pdf&keyword=

What is the school boards attorney's name? One can never be surprised about who may be found listed there for disciplinary action.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 2:06 pm By: Washingtonian

For the perspective of a black woman on Critical Race Theory, see the video from Kemi Badenoch in the article above. She calls it "a dangerous trend in race relations that has come far too close to my life." People of all race, other than the extreme left, realize that this divisive Marxist dogma of Critical Race Theory is bad for society.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 10:48 am By: John Steed

Wrong, Little Bobbie, Al Gore and Stacey Abrams are two cases in point where Democrats and their supporters whined for years afterward that they were cheated. Hillary Clinton also did some of the same. In Trump's case, the courts refused to allow a full investigation. There is now a civil case in Georgia that has been ordered to be heard (by an Obama judge, no less) that should expose some of the frauds there. However it is too late to plut the genie back in the bottle for this presidential term.

Commented: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 10:27 am By: Rino Hunter

Eric Olsen, the county’s current voter registrar, took the reins in November 2021, following the General Election. Olsen tells Potomac Local News White’s actions did not affect the election’s outcome and that he reported the discrepancies to the State Board of Elections, prompting the investigation.

Commented: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 11:13 pm By: Big Bob