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But not racist or homophobic.

Commented: Friday, February 17th, 2023 @ 9:40 am By: Big Bob

Hardly "access to health care". What Obamacare Medicaid expansion does is push 120,000 North Carolinians who now have private health insurance, mostly as a benefit of their job onto the Medicaid dole instead. It makes those 120,000 North Carolinians no longer eligible for private health insurance and forces them onto a welfare type program. Many doctors who take private insurance do not take Medicaid, so that will deprive some of them of their doctors. This does these 120,000 North Carolinians no favors.

Oh, and North Carolina has just been informed that we will have to pay the feds another billion dollars a year for the state's part of Medicaid.

This is about making people dependant on government, not about providing better health care, and it stinks. Those Republican legislators who betrayed North Caorlina on this will never get my vote.

Commented: Thursday, February 16th, 2023 @ 8:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Another big win for the Democrats on policy handed to them by our rotten and treacherous Republican legislative "leadership". Tim Moore and PHil Berger are Nancy Pelsoi without the skirt. Are these guys just stupid or are they on the take? It is clear that there is a whole lot of stupid or backstabbing or both in the GOP caucus. It makes one ashamed to be a Republican.

Commented: Thursday, February 16th, 2023 @ 7:14 am By: Rino Hunter

Yeah, Gym Jordan. Bhahahahahaa

Commented: Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 @ 11:13 am By: Big Bob

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Commented: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 @ 11:05 pm By: Stan Deatherage

To the beaufortcountynow.com webmaster, Your posts are always informative.

Commented: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 @ 2:16 pm By: Teresita Hartwell

Thank-you. "We try."

Commented: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 @ 12:03 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Charles: There is so much money in government now; so much to spend with the public, so much to waste in spite of the public. To that ignoble end over recent years, the People have not taken a real, corrective stand in the education of OUR children, and many other important issue as well.

That needs to end NOW. From the general assembly, to the county commissioners, to school boards, where you now serve, change must be afoot.

I have found recently that I can only go so far with the county commissioners, so you MUST push the envelope with the school board.

In the meantime, I will work with others to make the appropriate political changes as are needed and when possible to do so, while the Center Leftists are more than welcome to come after me, and then ... We'll see who wins in the end.

Commented: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 @ 8:32 am By: Stan Deatherage

One sometimes questions this writers knowledge of politics due to his lack of specifics. What does he mean by "excellent candidates"?? McConnell has his definition and that is wishy-washy candidates who stray from the party platform. To me an excellent candidate is one who is principled, politically savvy, a good communicator, and good one-on-one with voters. The McConnell formula does not care about any of those things.

GOTV (get out the vote) and "staying united" are going to require getting back to basics in the GOP, particularly at the state level, and there will be resistance to that. Fifty years ago, Republicans prided ourselves that our party ran from the bottom up instead of top down like the Democrats. The Democrats have suddenly flipped to a bottom up party, which will strengthen their grassroots, while over the last 25 years, the state GOP has calcified into a top down operation. If we are going to succesfully fight the Democrats, that is the very first thing we are going to need to change. Changing back to a bottom-up party may initially bring a level of division because some may resist returning power back to the grassroots, but is necessary if we are going to successfully fight the Democrats in the trenches.

The Democrats change in direction offers both challenges and opportunities for Republicans and we need to position ourselves to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities. Business as usual from the state party as it has operated for the last 25 years is not going to cut it.

The most important thing about staying united is avoiding one group trying to purge another. There are going to be contested races for various party offices but when the smoke clears and one side has won, everyone ought to be given seats at the table. I well remember the Holshouser purges in 1973-74 that led to the election disaster in 1974. That is NOT a recipe for success.

Commented: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 11:27 am By: Steven P. Rader

NCGOP Chairman Whatley drove that wedge very deep with his recent power plays, calling off district party conventions and refusing to properly pass a budget for the state party. Any "unity" in the GOP needs to be behind someone other than Michael Whatley.

Commented: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 7:58 am By: John Steed

I'm sure it's just a phase he's going through, but someone should remind him how lucky he is to have a mother who loves him very much. I couldn't imagine my kids feeling that way about me.

Commented: Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ 5:44 pm By: Gwen Hines