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WOW! A MSM mouthpiece, MSNBC's's Joe Scarborough, has now called for that Virginia AG candidate to drop out of the race after calling for the assassination of a GOP rival. "Morning Joe" is a usual woke voice for the left, but he seems to have some common sense on rejecting those who promote political violence. www.dailymail.co.uk

Commented: Monday, October 6th, 2025 @ 4:40 pm By: John Steed

I read here where Don Phipps has been hired to help Forsythe County straighten out their many problems in that former Sanctuary County.

I hope this will be a good match because I well know Don Phipps; he is a good, honest, and smart man. Together, we built the greatest informational platform that Beaufort County Schools has ever had, and will probably ever have, and we did it at the greatest value ever created for any digital platform in the history of Beaufort County.

I respect Don Phipps greatly as a superintendent and as a man, and my humble opinion is that Superintendent Phipps may be too good for that former Sanctuary County of Forsyth; however, I hope it works, especially for Don Phipps and his family, uprooted from Caldwell County.

Commented: Monday, October 6th, 2025 @ 2:44 pm By: Stan Deatherage

States like North Carolina should look to the solution to this problem identified by Poland's populist right Law and Justice Party. They put forward a law that allowed any Polish citizen whose posts complied with Polish law but had them removed by a major internet platform to sue that platform in Polish courts for a million euros per incident. This made censorship of Poles potentially very expensive for those major internet platforms. North Carolina could do the same for posts of North Carolinians which comply with North Carolina law, letting anyone sue those major platforms in North Carolina courts for a large amount of damages.

Commented: Monday, October 6th, 2025 @ 11:08 am By: Steven P. Rader

RINO Hunter: As I am fixing to register for re-election, in December, to keep my constituents' hard fought county commissioner seat, I would like to have the help of the Beaufort County GOP, and all their self-defined leaders; however, it probably will not be necessary. I always govern as if I am my constituents - hard working taxpayers, living outside the box = and that is why I depend so much on Beaufort County's real Republicans, like Adam O'Neal, Hood Richardson, Steve Rader, Ray Leary, and so many more folks, too numerous to mention,

Because the Beaufort County GOP is infamous for mainly supporting RINOs, most times, of late, I innately understand that I must go it alone, but, I wish I do not to get elected here in my home county for so many decades.

Commented: Sunday, October 5th, 2025 @ 5:35 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Befuddled: Garris calling for the resignation of Donald Sadler was a test....that's all I'll say. The whole Brabo controlled op was and is, in fact, a controlled op. You never forget someone who refuses the olive branch......Trump Strategy 101. It's my opinion that Brabo controls, by proxy, a majority of the Big 5 but that's another story.

Davisgate was an attempted hitjob by a contingency of the GOP who hates Trump Conservatism across the board. Kidwell and Garris don't have the brainpower to spearhead such an operation; they're near sighted opportunists that don't understand "The Art of The Deal".

I don't know enough about the O'Neal incident to comment on it.

Million Dollar question: Is the County Manager planning to install Brabo and those she may/may not control after Uncle Donnie's term runs out?

Brabo obviously doesn't like the terms:"Farrahkrats" and "Gestapo". The truth speaks for itself. Will any of this transpire or will I look like I'm batsh** crazy?

I'll bet a mark..

Commented: Saturday, October 4th, 2025 @ 8:56 pm By: John Valley

Keith has always struck me as a smart guy and he has a great voting record in Raleigh. It surprises me that Cheeseman could get away with using him this way.

Commented: Sunday, October 5th, 2025 @ 11:57 am By: Bubba

This election is the latest rejection of climate alarmism. The winning party made opposition to EU climate policy one of its two top issues, pointing to the need for cheaper energy. For one of its allies, that new "Motorist" Party, it was THE top issue. Even the party that will be the largest opposition party, its leading elder statesmen, former president and prime minister Dr. Vaclav Klaus, is a longtime vocal opponent of climate alarmism and has even written books in opposition to it.

Commented: Sunday, October 5th, 2025 @ 9:10 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Adam O'Neal believes that local governments should operate in a conservative manner; Adam takes the initiative to help elect sworn conservative candidates, many are proven conservatives, not the frauds offered protection by the Beaufort County GOP; and Adam does not hate Commissioner Hood Richardson.

Somewhere in that proposition offered of political opposites fighting, there are those individuals that DO NOT understand Adam O'Neal (and others like Adam); his methods; nor his pledge to Conservative governing, whereas many of these same people also do not particularly like Hood Richardson.

That is just the way it has been in Beaufort County since Democrats started to switch to the Republican Party to run for elected office, and then govern, once elected, as full fledged Democrats, all with the fulsome support of the Beaufort County GOP.

Commented: Saturday, October 4th, 2025 @ 7:56 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Befuddled: Those are great questions. Considering how some don't do their homework, I be willing to "bet a mark" that Kidwell didn't call Miss Davis to get he skinny on what went down; his "people" skills are extremely lacking and he doesn't handle pressure well.

From my view, it would serve Miss Davis no purpose to contact Kidwell. He'd be made a bigger example of, in the public eye, if he fell on his own sword and continually drove it in deeper. Has he issued an apology for his diarrhea of the mouth?....he hasn't, to my knowledge.

What happened here was a botched hitjob, by the GOP, against a conservative lady who has put heat on the school board's ass......a very stupid and counterproductive move to the development of Trump-era Conservatism within the GOP.

Garris needs to resign or make a public apology to Miss Davis.... personally. If she doesn't handle this properly, her political ambitions may be short-lived if common sense voters put two and two together.

Kidwell ..same.

Commented: Friday, October 3rd, 2025 @ 10:37 pm By: John Valley

What I want to know is this: Before Keith Kidwell publicly announced that Stacey Davis should resign, did he (as a leader in NC) call her and ask for her side of the story?
Also, I would like to know if Stacey has taken it upon herself to contact Rep Kidwell and tell him her personal side of the story. In the spirit of Charlie Kirk, people should talk to each other.
I have found that far toooooooo many people make far tooooooo many assumptions.
By the way, the link to the Mayoral Forum held at Washington High is at this youtube link: www.youtube.com

Commented: Friday, October 3rd, 2025 @ 10:21 am By: Befuddled

Concerned Taxpayer: Ché gives the appearance of being the mind of the operation BUT he isn't; he's a decoy.

Donnie Sadler and Randy Walker are running the school board for the County Manager. I can't prove it but I know it. People like Kidwell and Garris (however you spell her last name) are trying to sell their political careers by engaging in political diarrhea; it's a stupid move.

There is a County Cabal here and they know that their time is running out.

Commented: Friday, October 3rd, 2025 @ 9:21 am By: John Valley

It sounds like the federal District Judge was very thorough and meticulous in his ruling in setting out facts and reasoning. If appealed, this case would go to the very left leaning Fourth Circuit in Richmond, and if so may need a final trip to the SCOTUS.

Commented: Friday, October 3rd, 2025 @ 7:53 am By: Steven P. Rader