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Reading the comment from Michelle Woodhouse, former Republican 11th Congressional District (mountain area) Republican Party chairman on how Michael Whatley bungled the position Trump appointed him to as hurricane relief czar for western NC after Hurricane Helene makes me concerned about whether Whatley is electable in November. The comment is posted below the following Daily Haymaker article: dailyhaymaker.com

To win statewide, we have to get a good showing in those western areas devastated by Helene. Those voters came out for us in 2024. Will they in 2026 with Whatley at the head of the ticket? That is a real question after he has been MIA on the Hurricane Helene relief he was supposed to head.

Don Brown is our best chance to win against Cooper.

Commented: Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 @ 1:48 pm By: John Steed

This is yet another example of how violence seems to be an integral part of the transgender lifestyle.

Commented: Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 @ 11:21 am By: Conservative Voter

We, as local taxpayers, do NOT need to be getting ourselves on the hook for federal spending programs. Any lefty commissioner who votes for that should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. A county manage who calls for that should be summarily fited.

Commented: Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 @ 8:22 am By: Bubba

Conservative Voter: I agree. We do have strong candidates running for the City Council. Have you looked at your new tax bill, electric bill, potholes, drainage problems? But we have a great outhouse on the waterfront and a wonderful Main St. with no parking. No real long-range plan that I have seen. Then look at from Third Street North. We do have candidates with business sense running this time. Let's hope we can get out the vote.

Commented: Monday, October 27th, 2025 @ 10:04 pm By: Buzz Cayton

While I appreciate the compliment, I do want to point out that the first suggestion of hiring a local attorney in a recent meeting came from board member Daniel Hudson, something many of the rest of us support. Unfortunately, the RFP was drafted to make that local attorney play second fiddle to an out of town attorney, the exact reverse of the way most school boards and other local governments operate. Unfortunately, we were one vote short on reversing that RFP to bring us in line with standard practice. An example is neighboring Craven County, where a local attorney has long served as their principle school board attorney, but regularly uses Tharrington Smith for specialized services dealing with personnel disputes and sometimes other matters. (It was incorrectly contended at the last board meeting by one member that Tharrington Smith was the Craven school board's primary attorney).

Board attorneys deal with lots of routine legal matters, but also play important roles when policy issues and legal issues are intertwined, which they often are. In those situations, it is important to have a board attorney who is on the same policy wavelength as the board he is supposed to serve. A good example of that is the dispute over injecting Title IX's prohibition of discrimination based on sex with a new definition that included things like gender identity and sexual orientation, a position that undercuts Title IX's original purpose of protecting women's rights. Lawyers throughout the profession have split on that issue on their legal opinions based on their own ideological policy preferences. There are many other issues like that one.

On the Title IX front, I am happy to report that the School Board voted unanimously at our last meeting to remove previous language from our policies that had previously included gender identity and sexual orientation as part of "discrimination based on sex". We are now back to the way Congress intended Title IX to operate to protect womens rights.

Commented: Monday, October 27th, 2025 @ 10:02 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The far left in America tries to paint enforcement of our immigration laws as "racist" but the likely next leader of a Hispanic country, calling for mass deportation of illegal aliens in his own country who are themselves mostly from other Hispanic countries, shows that calling this issue "racist" is just rhetoric and empty nonsense.

One could also look at the relatively well run black African nation of Botswama building an electified border fence that can carry a lethal dose of electricity to keep out illegal aliens from its less well run neighbors.

Commented: Monday, October 27th, 2025 @ 7:28 pm By: borderhawk

Befuddled: You are right. We have the opportunity to become the Drone Development Center for the East Coast, Possible Rail development in Chocowinity, One of the largest phosphate deposits in the world, and could be the bedroom community for Greenville NC and look who is steering the ship. We need a real school board, County Commission and City Council. What is the plan for Washington? I wonder if the Camber, EDC, County Commission and City Council have ever had a collective meeting to work on synergism to bring us out of obscurity and stop losing people out of our county. We need capable candidates! Then, this group could have some clout to talk to our next line of authority. We need businesspeople at the helm. Our President is a great example.

Commented: Monday, October 27th, 2025 @ 5:49 pm By: Buzz Cayton

"All politics /governing is local."

Commented: Monday, October 27th, 2025 @ 2:57 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Considering that education, or lack thereof, is a benefit or problem in our society at large, the governing of public education is absolutely a public issue, and public issues must be delt with in public, which means that the back room negotiations need to immediately take a "back seat" to the needs of we, the self-governed.

For those of you that might take umbrage with my true remarks, please remember that there are general statutes dictating how the People's business is conducted, and thus governed.

Backroom dealing is not part of the NC General Statutes plan for our open government for we, the public.

Commented: Monday, October 27th, 2025 @ 1:49 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Whatley was appointed Hurricane Relief Czar for western North Carolina by President Trump but has been missing in action. That area is a must win for a Republican to carry North Carolina but how could Whatley carry it after his poor hurricane relief performance?
dailyhaymaker.com

Commented: Monday, October 27th, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By: Rino Hunter

Corrupt Planned Parenthood and the corrupt Democratic Socialist party has been scamming the Americans people for decades by money laundering illegal campaign donations for the votes to legislate the abomination of publicly funded abortion mills.

Commented: Monday, October 27th, 2025 @ 8:53 am By: Stan Deatherage