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It's bad when our 'representatives' have sold us out.

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2026 @ 10:22 am By: Van Zant

Tyre is a power bully and he is corrupt. He is a one man cancer on our city government. Perraultr needs to gumption to not let himself be bullied by Tyre.

Commented: Sunday, May 3rd, 2026 @ 12:13 pm By: Bubba

I think Tyre is describing himself here.

City Councilman Anthony Tyre wrote:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is when limited understanding creates inflated confidence, people who know the least often speak the most certain.
Next time, I think I will clock him to see how many minutes he rants/rambles out of a single hour.
If someone would use a "point of order" on his speech, maybe the City meetings wouldnt be so LONG!

Commented: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 @ 10:27 am By: Washingtonian

Beaufort County citizens living outside Washington are fortunate as Washington has been a circus since the death of former Mayor Mac Hodges. First they had the self serving strongarm high tax Sadler faction. Then they thought they had fixed it with a new team. Unfortunately, things are not going so well with that team. Joe Davis has turned out to have a tendency to shoot from the hip and go off half cocked. He probably means well, but he tends to open his mouth and engage his keyboard without fully thinking things through. Tyre is pure evil, and Horton is his wingman. Perrault tries to play both sides, and has gotten in bed with Tyre more than he should. Fritz was the only sane guy up there and now he is gone. Brabo as mayor has not set the world on fire, but at least she is honest for a change.

If you live outside of Washington, you can get out the popcorn and watch the soap opera. If you have the misfortune to live in Washington, however, it is a tax nightmare.

Commented: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 @ 11:18 am By: piratefan

VZ, members of the NCAE teachers union were bound and determined to celebrate what you call "communism day" or May Day. In Pitt County, they demanded the day off from school to go to Raleigh for the demonstration. When the school board refused, they started calling in sick AHEAD of TIME for May Day. The schools could not get enough substitutes so they had to cancel class. Will these teachers union members have any consequences for playing hookey from their jobs? Probably not.

And they picked Communism Day even though the legislators would not even be in town that day. They were more interested in the political symbolism than it actually trying to influence the legislators.

Commented: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 @ 4:13 pm By: Conservative Voter

The rumblings I heard did not specify the nature of the threat, but if it were a possible boycott, a common tactic of the left, then beating a hasty retreat would be the path of least resistance.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 6:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

If Fritz's business is being threatened, it is safer for him to be on the council than off it.
In my opinion, Brabo's business would already be shut down if she wasnt Mayor. Tho I do believe she has lost control over her Mayorship. Letting the 3 avengers run roughshod over Davis was a disgrace. They took Davis' HRC position away, then tried to nominate Tyre to it. He begged his way off, whining that he was already a liaison for 2 committees. Well suck it up buttercup bec u guys are now going to have to double down on committee jobs.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 2:45 pm By: Washingtonian

Concerned Taxpayer, In Nick Fritz Facebook post, he defended Sadler and Tyre. WHY? Does anyone know?
I will never forget Tyre telling a constituent: "If you dont like how we do things, hire a lawyer."
Well Brabo did and look at the mess that has caused. She had to do it, unlike most of us) because she had a business to defend. So I dont blame her at all.
I know that Perreault was calling for everyone to be a team player. Well, I cant forget that is what manager Russell was doing right after he demoted the police chief...calling that demoted police chief a team player.
Those are all peculiar things to me. Or i should say personnel CONTROL strategies by govt.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 1:32 pm By: Washingtonian

Councilman Fritz said: "Democracy is a sham.
The government is run by a bureaucracy. Department’s decide what they think is best, they set their own budgets and formulate their own recommendations."

Ya'll didnt just think that the bureaucrats were going to simply rollover and play dead did ya?
Divide and conquer is a good gameplan and it looks like that was played. Someone got to Perreault who promptly sided with Horton and Tyre, who (Tyre) dominated all the meetings with rig-a-ma-roll, making simple folks heads explode, and/or feeling like the world has gone mad.
The first week of the new council should have been to fire all the Dept heads and replace all the rot on the committees...(people who have been on these for many years, playing like Gods.)

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 10:57 am By: Washingtonian

80% of Americans support the SAVE Act and that turncoat Tillis is still helping block it. He is nothing but an Undocumented Democrat.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 12:04 pm By: Rino Hunter

Clearly joining a teachers union is little different than joining Democrat Socialists of America.

Commented: Thursday, April 30th, 2026 @ 6:44 pm By: Bubba

The NEA teachers union has been pushing students to walk out of class in opposition to enforcement of immigration laws, and so have some of its state affiliates. They have put out communications supporting this activity and even funded it. There are planned student walkouts for May Day which is tomorrow and some reports of them starting today. This is radical leftwing behavior that fits the Democrat partisan agenda. Honorable teachers would never promote students to leave class for radical political protests but these despicable teachers unions DO.

Commented: Thursday, April 30th, 2026 @ 3:16 pm By: borderhawk