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The problem on too many school boards is members who think the superintendant is the boss and they are the employees instead of the other way around. The elected leaders need to bring the education deep state to heel.

Commented: Wednesday, November 9th, 2022 @ 1:10 pm By: Conservative Voter

I have never seen so many people voting at Old Ford that early in the morning like there were this morning. At 6:28am I was 5th in line and people were still lining up.

Commented: Tuesday, November 8th, 2022 @ 2:20 pm By: Countrygirl1411

It is sad that either way you look at it Make America God's Again or Make America Great Again, that so many people are against it and had prefer to see America under Satan's control and to fail.

Commented: Tuesday, November 8th, 2022 @ 4:18 am By: Countrygirl1411

Campbell is little more than a mouthpiece for the Democrat narrative but he is a slicker wordsmith than Biden's speech writers. This is the "dark Brandon" Philadelphia speech rewritten where it may take in people without their realizing it. He talks a lot of generalities that could apply to both sides, talks out of both sides of his mouth on free speech, and in doing so draws more poople in. Instead of openly blasting "Republican", "mega MAGA" or whatever, he sets his partisan trap by only condeming things that the left blames on Republicans (although in reality those were NOT Republican orchestrated). Campbell's more subtle way of attacking Republicans is more seducing than Biden's "in your face" attacks. Campbell's partisan attack is the same as Biden's just written in a more tricky fashion.

Democrats always tend to accuse Republicans of what they themselves are doing, in this case, acting like fascists. One hallmark of fascism is the "corporate state" where government and big companies work together on political objectives. I cannot think of a more apt example of the corporate state than what is happening today with big corporations parroting the Democrat political line on so many subjects and the collusiion between Big Tech and Big Government to suppress our free speech.

Commented: Monday, November 7th, 2022 @ 7:58 am By: Steven P. Rader

It doesn't look like the fish fry drummed up many votes. Saturday was the lightest day of voting during the four days that early voting was open in Belhaven, with 121 voters, compared to 193 on Wednesday, 138 on Thursday, and 159 on Friday.

I have seen the same tactic when I worked with pro-western political parties in Moldova. The Communists would take around goodie bags to older voters to try to create a sense of obligation that they owed them their vote in return. This is not a southern thing or an American thing but a corrupt political practice employed in too many countries.

I recall seeing it directly while I was an International Election Observer in a Moldovan parliamentary election. Around lunch time my observation team pulled into a polling station in the city of Comrat, capital of the Gaugauzia automonmous region. Soon after we arrived several older voters came in carrying white plastic bags with a red hammer and sickle printed on them, obviously filled with things like canned goods. A German international observation team that was also present questioned the first woman who came in with the bag, and she said she had just come from church (Moldova votes on Sunday) and the priest had told them there were some presents for them at the front of the church and they should go and vote (in Moldova the Russian Orthodox Church supported the Communists while the Romanian Orthodox Church was supporiing the Christian Democrats at first but then switched to the Liberal Party). The German team made notes for their report, but since my organization had trained the poll observers of the pro-western parties, I spoke with them and they made a formal complaint to the election officials. The election officials then told the voters with the bags that they could not enter the polling station with them, could not leave them outside, and could not stand around with them outside. They had to leave with them. This was largely due to the fact that election law there did not allow party symbols in or around the polling station on election day. Maybe some of them came back after taking the bags home, but probably not all of them. That was unlikely to have been the only Russian Orthodox Church where that happened.

I also remember the Moldovan Democratic Party fighting fire with fire in some local elections in northern raions of Moldova. The Communists made a practice of giving goodie bags to older voters to create an obligation to vote for them, so the Democrats made up their own goodie bags and took them to the same profile of voter. On election day, there was a huge spike in spoiled ballots because a lot of those voters then felt obligated to both parties and thus voted for both, spoliing the ballot so that it counted for nobody. That led the Democrats to pick up a fair number of seats from the Communists.

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 7:39 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Last question only allowed one answer. They are all very important

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 5:25 pm By: Kathy

Conservative Voter: It is a dirty crowd who, by my recent experience, will not explain themselves past one or two sentences at best.

I still blame the local GOP, in part, for granting some of the perpetrators of this crowd succor within the Executive Committee or in elected office - Frankie Waters.

By the way: Has Frankie Waters, as of yet, been formerly invited to resign from the Beaufort County GOP for his continued and strident Party Disloyalty?

Just curious as I continue my Real Republican campaign for re-election to the Beaufort County Commission.

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 10:07 am By: Stan Deatherage

As usual, leftie loon Tom Campbell presents the "woke" side of events. He parrots the left's talking points about Jan. 6 and the attack on Pelosi's husband (which was by an illegal alien who was a nudist activist and BLM supporter). We had a shooting into the home of a Republican congressional candidate in our own state, narrowly missing the candidate's two young daughters, but woke Campbell ignores this in his spiel.

The real threat of totalitarianism is by Campbell's own side which is at war with democratic rights like the freedom of speech. They support government power grabs on a wide range of issues. He wants to quote far left Eleanor Roosevelt on the rise of Hitler, but she ignores how Hitler concentrated power in himself, which was by ruling by decree, which is exactly what Biden is doing with his executive orders.

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 9:29 am By: John Steed

Thank-you Tom for your workman-like, and true presentation of a position that so many Conservatives also have, just a reverse of who the perpetrators are that created this mess that NOW leads so many American citizens to waking up to the fact of such a "wrong track" direction in an America controlled by Democratic Socialists, and their corrupted institutions. Additionally, I warn you and others of the growing reality that the Conservative position in the majority of polls is under represented by about 4%.

The real problem regarding these corrupted institutions is that, while not perfect, they did serve a purpose in giving the public a touchstone to some trust in stability and continuity of the Republic. That now is over for real Americans.

Now, many good patriots believe that these public institutions: the discredited Legacy Media; the weaponized DOJ /FBI; the Politicized CDC; the Failed Education Industry; and the Leftist non patriot Democratic Socialist Party; just to name a few of the systemic obstacles to our Republic's survival, have no reason NOW to exist without, at the minimum, a drastic, and complete overhaul.

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 9:05 am By: Stan Deatherage

I think we should start with the corrupt democrat party as we know it now, have a whole new Democrat party, investigate fbi,doj,the border and those in charge and investigate the vaccines and persons responsible which go's deep, have a whole new doj, fbi, border control, rid abortion, and bring in new poloticians. Stop the mainstream media and their misinformation disinformation, bias and opinions. Research and report facts only. Stop the witch hunts on President Trump and investigate where investigation is due. Stop and impeach Joe biden Garland palosi

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 6:26 am By: Deanna Faith Henderson

Whisper campaigns, like the one being run by Rogerson's supporters misrepresenting Hammonds positions on issues, are the very dirtiest form of politics. It is common in politics to raise issues about opponents, and I have no particular problem with that as long as it is done openly where the opponent has a chance to respond. Since whisper campaigns are usually based on untruths, they are done underground, making it hard for an opponent to respond. Rogerson does not misrepresent Hammond's positions on issues at candidate forums or in advertising, where Hammonds could respond but his supporters are doing it in an organized word of mouth campaign.

Another whisper campaign by Rogerson's supporters is directed at Republicans, telling them Rogerson will switch parties if he is elected. That is clearly a lie after he took $5,000 from liberal Democrat kingmaker Harman Gaskins, but they hope some Republicans may fall for it.

On Scott Hammonds stance on guns, I have heard him speak to that issue in person. Hammonds will protect the Constitutional rights of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms. The only guns he will take away are those of criminals, including convicted felons who are not allowed to have guns under our state laaws.

Stan, it is shocking that the Rogerson crowd is going after people in other races just because they support Hammonds. Who wants someone who holds grudges like that as sheriff? You do not seem to be the only one. After State Representative Keith Kidwell made radio ads for Hammonds, some of Rogersons campaign people working his tent at early voting told Kidwell that they were going to "get" him in the next election. We don't need the Rogerson crowd anywhere near the sheriff's office.

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 7:02 am By: Conservative Voter