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I agree that Sociat(ist) Services has way too much power and it needs to be reined in, but the best way to do that may be at the state level.

Commented: Sunday, March 15th, 2026 @ 3:12 pm By: Rino Hunter

The soap opera going on within the local Republican Party is a distraction from what really matters. That is electing a conservative county commission that will do something about our taxes. We also need to reelect our sheriff and state senator. We have already lost our state representative to the special interests' sock puppet and the school board appears hopeless.

Whatever needs to be done in the local Republican organization can be attended to the next time they have a convention to elect officers, but we have something more immediate we have to deal with, called an election, and its consequences matter a lot more to our taxpayers.

Commented: Sunday, March 15th, 2026 @ 10:12 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Not sure if this was the meeting referred to, piratefan, but there was a school board meeting couple of months ago that you ought to be able to find on the videos, where the LGBTQ issue came up. Some of the conservatives, I think Rader and Hickman, and maybe Shreve, were trying to change one of the board's written rules. That rule said something to the effect that when there was a controversy over a book or materials, like a dirty book, the decision on whether to keep it would be based only on the opinions of teachers and other school employees. The conservatives were trying to amend it to include considering the opinions of parents and the community in addition to school personnel. Carolyn Walker was vehemently against considering the opinions of parents and the community. I believe it was Rader who commented that there are LGBTQ groups actively trying to place such books in schools around the country. Ms. Walker then jumped him for daring to comment on the activities of the LBBTQ groups and began defending them. T.W. Allen also got in to the debate defending the LGBTQ groups. In the end, a split vote continued to leave parents opinions out of the consideration on issues about controversial materials like dirty books.

This issue may have also come up at other meetings, but that is one I recall watching.

An additional point is that the current Democrat NC Superintendent of Public Instruction, Moe Green, funded a group that put that type of books in schools when he was head of a state level charitable foundation..

Commented: Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 6:28 pm By: Conservative Voter

Almost all of them know they should not be here. It is refreshing to hear one acknowledge that. His comments on the UK looking like a Third World country shows how far Europe has gone down the illegal immigration rabbit hole, and where the Democrats were trying to send us.

Commented: Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 4:19 pm By: borderhawk

Out of curiosity, who were the local school board members involved? I'll bet I can guess one of them.

Commented: Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 1:20 pm By: piratefan

In our country, they have only attacked the monuments so far, not who or what appears on the currency, but I am sure that will be coming. It is great that the Trump administration is helping reverse the cultural cleansing by the far left. What is totally despicable is the cowardly RINO Congressman from our former district, Greg Murphy who has supported the war on history in our country. Murphy is a scumbag who needs to GO.

Commented: Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 11:23 am By: Rino Hunter

As our School Board veers off to the left, we need more private school and charter school spaces so students can get a real education.

Commented: Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 9:53 am By: Bubba

I would love to see ICE start paying some visits to the big farmers around here.

Commented: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 9:42 pm By: borderhawk

From a conservative perspective, the Beaufort County School Board has gone backwards, because of the outside and inside meddling of the two Walker board members. Carolyn and Randy Walker have worked on the inside of the local Republican Party and from the outside of their own school district. One of these ultra-liberals (Carolyn) serves on the School Board and the other ultra-liberal (Randy) serves on the County Commission. They both are registered Republicans and are in the good graces of the corrupt local Republican party leadership. People that pay attention have long known that the Walkers serve as ultra-liberals on their respective boards.

Two of their three school board recruits for other districts than their own, (District 6 and made it through the primary. The third candidate was trounced in the district 2 primary despite the heavy involvement of the Walkers. The two that made it are both former teachers and members of the NCAE. The NCAE is a radical left organization. For example, the present NCAE chairperson was quoted recently in relation to ICE agents in North Carolina. She said, "And to be clear, we do not want them here."

Commented: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 8:31 pm By: Van Zant

While many conservative Democrats have legitimately joined the GOP, there are also a lot of opportunists like Frankie Waters, Randy Walker, and Carolyn Walker. These people care nothing about Republican principles, just about power.

Commented: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 6:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Rino Hunter: The problem may be, at this critical juncture in the Republican Party, that too many reformed Democrats joined the Republican Party, but still don't quite know how to think or act like a Republican.

Commented: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 4:46 pm By: Stan Deatherage

At some point very soon, with our Representative Republic at war for the last number of months, when does the Non Patriot Leftists in congress, and the Democratic Socialist Propagandistic Media begin speaking and writing truth instead of gas-lighting Americans who are poorly informed?

Constantly calling President Trump a Fascist, while America wages war against real Fascists, who have murdered tens of thousands of Americans, and hundreds of thousands of their own people is NOT a good look for the Democratic Socialist party and their Non Patriot Leftist leaders and fake journalists.

Commented: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 2:25 pm By: Stan Deatherage