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Cont. from comment 1: Many in my community have reached out to me and were simply not satisfied with Mr. Hickman's leadership. They felt that this was not an overnight problem and that he did not do enough in his first two years on the board to help prevent the eventual result. Now to my youth. We have seen across the country a passing of the torch and an influx of youth into both parties. This should not be feared but celebrated, especially in the conservative movement. Students have been elected to statewide and municipal offices across the state. I would be the closest removed from Primary and Secondary education on the board, able to understand more closely the struggles that students and teachers alike are dealing with. I think this is a very positive trait to have. In further comments or communications, I can go more in-depth on my views and goals. They are simply too much for this thread. God Bless.

Commented: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 1:32 pm By: Austin Garrison

Mr. Garrison, could you explain what life experience you have that would qualify you for the school board. Have you been in the military like Charles Hickman, or run your own business like Mr. Hickman? Do you have experience actually teaching school like Mr. Hickman? What full time jobs have your held? Are you living independently away from your parents or other relatives and for how long?

Charles HIckman did a good job communicating on behalf of Aurora residents and with Aurora residents to stand up for Snowden school. From what I am told, you were in the audience at some of those meetings but did not speak up on behalf of the Richlands township / Aurora community. You were MIA on Snowden. Your silence on Snowden was deafening. We have seen the positive communications from Mr. Hickman and the glaring lack of communication from you on the most important education issue for that community in a long time.

Commented: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 1:13 pm By: Conservative Voter

CV: Then, I reckon the "Forest Woman" considers me and The Hood toast.

Maybe, but I rather doubt it.

Commented: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 9:33 am By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: I knew that there was some unknown "Republican" running against my good friend, and Conservative ally, Charles Hickman, but I was not aware that he was recruited by RINO Whisperers within the Beaufort County GOP.

Well, if the "Unknown 'Republican'" wishes to make himself known, he better speak loud and clear to real Republicans, and this publication is the touchstone of most real Republicans in this county of Beaufort. Maybe he can inform us all why he is better suited to serve as a Beaufort County School Board member rather than Conservative Charles Hickman.

Commented: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 8:03 am By: Stan Deatherage

RH: As party vice chair that woman has worked against conservative Republicans for years. At the polls in Washington in a previous year's municipal race she was holding forth before the public about having to do something about conservative Republican school board members. She's been spewing poison for a long time with no repercussions from the party.

I'm also hearing that Ms. Forest recruited that guy planning to run against Mr. Hickman in the School Board primary. I don't know, but I do remember that guy said she was a political mentor of his when he was running for the vice chair position she had been in, so it could be true. Also, thank goodness Mrs. Knight won that vice chair race in the convention.

Stan: That's the thing. Look for the real conservatives in the primaries. We don't need a choice between Dems and Dem lights in general elections. For a county that votes conservative in state and national elections Beaufort County has a lot of Dem lights elected locally. We end up paying for it too.

Commented: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 6:17 am By: Van Zant

That Forest woman was a piece of work, vice chairman of the local party and headquarters manager but she regularly badmouthed conservative candidates right there in the headquarters. I had heard that she was gone but somebody saw her at the GOP tent at early elections. So, has she turned up again, like a bad penny?

Commented: Sunday, November 9th, 2025 @ 6:41 pm By: Rino Hunter

Barack Hussein Obama's greatest distinction was to be the first president in modern times to supplant President Jimmy Carter from the status of the worst president; of course, Vegetable President Biden easily supplanted Non Patriot President Obama just 4 years later.

Commented: Sunday, November 9th, 2025 @ 2:21 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Maybe American patriots should hold "no robber barons" protests outside the courthouses of these Obama and Biden judicial tyrants. They need to be removed from office.

Commented: Sunday, November 9th, 2025 @ 10:53 am By: Conservative Voter

Whoa. One of the crucial nasty little truths has come out. From this County GOP self-proclaimed intelligentsia camp, is there even one example of a NATIVE conservative NOT being opposed? From this crowd only the outsiders parachuted in and the native RINO/Democrats get a pass. Fact.

Commented: Sunday, November 9th, 2025 @ 7:58 am By: Van Zant

The problem is that the local GOP Executive committee is loyal to the big dogs in Raleigh and above. NOT to the Local GOP members.

This is because that is where the REWARDS come from, NOT from the powerless WeThePpl of the local description. Everyone is seeking power from the people with the power to give it!! Its heartbreaking.

"Lord Give Me Patience, because if you give me Strength I'm going to need bail money."

Commented: Saturday, November 8th, 2025 @ 11:50 am By: Befuddled

Y'all, pay close attention to what Mr. Steve (Rader) just said......I think he's onto something😎.

Both the left corner and the right corner are using the same strategy; it's just being SOLD with different packaging. Hmmmm....what have we just seen, many times over, HERE?

Native family representatives are going to have to get involved, in some capacity, to demand accountability and change for this problem to be corrected. The County GOP shall "Make BOCO Great Again" by removing and barring any outside alien from local leadership until proven to have a genuine knowledge of local culture, bull**** and etc.

Common sense vetting; this isn't radical, it's simple logic.

Commented: Saturday, November 8th, 2025 @ 10:58 am By: John Valley

Stan, Republicans have been active in "non-partisan" elections as long as I can remember. When I was still registered to vote in Mecklenburg County in the early 1970s, the local Republican Party there noted that Charlotte was then voting Republican in elections where party labels were on the ballot, but elected Democrats to city office where party labels were not on the ballot. They started widely advertising who the Republicans on the ballot were and started winning most of the city races. Of course, Charlotte has now gone the other direction, and that has not worked in a number of years. I think McCrory as mayor was the last one who benefited before politics there shifted.

At one time, the same dynamics applied in Raleigh, and the Wake County GOP was heavily involved in getting Republican Tom Fetzer elected mayor in a nominally non-partisan race. Of course, partisan dynamics have changed there, too, since that time.

Back when judicial races were "non-partisan", the Republican Party was active statewide in working to elect the Republicans who were running for judgeships.

This year, the party on the congressional district level, and to a large degree on the state level pushed local parties getting involved in electing Republicans to city offices in officially "non-partisan" races. This is nothing new. It has been going on for some time, and Democrats also do it on their side of the fence many places.

Commented: Friday, November 7th, 2025 @ 4:29 pm By: Steven P. Rader