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SD: Best wishes on your surgery and recovery.

I'm pretty sure the elected officials in question do not use conservative news outlets.
Yes, I agree the Executive Committee needs to address this. I hope they have the spine to do so. It is my understanding that this committee has been dominated in recent years by dictatorial leadership. These times require a strong committee rather than a committee in name only or a rubber stamp brainless mob. Just what is the function of this organization. Is it to elect Republicans or is it to undermine conservative Republicans?

With the very important municipal elections upon us we do not need a self-destruction event by the local party. It is time for people to swallow all the small thinking and consider greater things.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 1:31 pm By: Van Zant

Van Zant: ENC NOW also got not public announcement from these elected officials.

You are also right that neither had the right or the authority to speak for the Beaufort County GOP. This issue needs to addressed at the next Executive Committee meeting, and with my hip surgery and re overy imminent, it will not be me.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 12:58 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Eastern NC NOW did not get a copy of "the tape," or a press release of this incident, so it does appear that this First Amendment publication is not on Superintendent Cheeseman's approved list of media on certain matters, which is rather telling on so many levels.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 11:04 am By: Stan Deatherage

CV: You're right. Cheeseman has a well-established record of wading into politics. I'm confident that the superintendent is happy with the leftist out of town board attorney, but real blame for that should be on the RINO majority school board itself. I'm told that the current Beaufort County Republican Chairperson is close with those RINO members as well as with the superintendent. She's obviously no fan of Ms. Davis. Under present conditions, Republican majorities on these boards are very misleading to the public. Citizens in the community should be very careful in their evaluations of Republican officeholders and candidates in this setting. The Republican Party organization itself needs to invest heavily in a self-policing effort. At this time, they are not being responsible to the public and are doing more harm than good.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 6:59 am By: Van Zant

This bus situation is one bizarre event even for Beaufort County. I'm not surprised at the actions of the school board member. She is a parent looking out for her child and their property. It started getting weird when the school superintendent unilaterally sent the tape to the media. I had heard long ago that this superintendent was consumed with being in control. He seems to like board members that follow his directives rather than the other way around. I've even heard that he meets with prospective opponents of board members he does not like.

It got even more weirder when the Beaufort County Republican Party Chairman waded into this, demanding the school board member resign. Is this person speaking for the party? What does the county executive committee think of this unilateral action? Plus, why is the local state house member making public demands of the fellow Republican office holder concerning this matter?

It's the actions since getting the property back that are opening the door to the really serious questions.

Commented: Friday, September 19th, 2025 @ 9:18 pm By: Van Zant

Stan, Campbell is a Democrat hack trying to rig elections for Democrats. Many of his schemes come from the Democrat playbook on that subject, and he seems to have cut and pasted from there.

Commented: Friday, September 19th, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By: Rino Hunter

And the Dumocrates are claiming this is to go after Trump adversaries.
And our uninformed public keeps sending this bunch back to lead our communities, state, and country.

Commented: Friday, September 19th, 2025 @ 10:10 am By: Buzz Cayton

I have been in the mountains on what turned into a vacation of as much mountain hiking as my bum left hip could stand, while additionally working hard at all things Stan, so I did not hear of this bizarre, but very human-like incident until now. I am sure that I will learn more of it as any need to know arises, and may exist later.

Then there was the Charlie Kirk Political Assassination, by yet another radicalized Non Patriot Leftist, which really hit close to home for me; lost a bunch of sleep over that black moment in our Republic's history. Events such as this tend to rattle my governing radar far more than local prattle over this and that - the proverbial shiny objects.

Additional in my distraction, the strengthening of my left leg by hiking that bum hip, of Stan, up and down some huge North Carolina mountains for my inner peace, and the prescribed: My rather necessary pre-surgery physical therapy as a preparation for my September 25th hip replacement event, was a prerequisite priority; inept Beaufort County School Board and Administration matters notwithstanding.

On the other political hand, I am incredibly encouraged that the intellectually resourceful Steve Rader has joined the resilient Charles Hickman, and the spotlight driven Stacey Davis on Beaufort County's School Board to act as our Conservative agents of hope, whereby so much incredible bad policy exists for them, and others like them must correct, of which ... That well needed change cannot come soon enough, and yes, we need our good elected leaders to accomplish what is best for all, and their worthy deeds must be constant, continual, and consistently applied.

Additionally, be warned: These are many very serious days, great "turning point" days laid out before us, as much evil and the resultant ineptitude driven event of an incredible, a very probable human calamity that exists all about us, and must be forestalled until fixed for succeeding generations yet to come.

Therefore, be aware, YOU, the Good People among US: Do not let your attention be swayed, or diverted from what is real by yet greater Democratic Socialist and RINO groupings of the many "shiny objects" of yet more profound absurdities. Be aware of all that is real and threatening; pay attention to what it means to be a patriot; and, DO YOUR JOB in this self-governed society by electing intellectually better equipped leaders to rein in these profound pockets of insane stupidity that exist all about us, and will continue as such, until we, the self-governed, do all that is needed and required.

That day is coming to do what is Right; YOU MUST be prepared to do so, for our Constitutional Republic's essential survival depends upon YOU.

Commented: Friday, September 19th, 2025 @ 2:49 am By: Stan Deatherage

While this incident shows some inappropriate actions by the member involved, it looks like the political firestorm has likely been contrived by the Cheeseman clique. The bus driver clearly would have reported this to his manager, how it got from there to those who have been bird dogging the incident is rather questionable. Undoubtedly it was a leak from within the school administration. Then there is the handing over of the videotape. Did the school board approve that or did Cheeseman just do it? If one of Cheeseman's political allies on the board had done it, that tape would still be under lock and key and would stay there. This is a pure political play to hurt that board member. She should have been smart enough not to leave herself open.

I think the member's actions were inappropriate, but she does not deserve the political hatchet job being done on her. She does seem to ask lots of pointed questions and I can see that getting under the skins of Cheeseman and his clique.

Commented: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 @ 3:48 pm By: Conservative Voter

Understandable I had just seen a post about it and was curious. Good points were made by this member at the last meeting. A shame this occurred

Commented: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 @ 10:26 am By: Will Simmons

Where is our leadership in NC. Huge plants and industry going to many states, including our neighbor SC, and zilch here in NC.

Commented: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 @ 9:31 am By: Buzz Cayton

What happened with the school board member and the bus?

Commented: Thursday, September 18th, 2025 @ 8:12 am By: Will Simmons