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Another article on the BO pointed out that some local Republicans have chummed up with liberal Democrat Rogerson like RINOs Frankie Waters and Pat Varcoe. Frankie Waters has been a Democrat ally as long as he has claimed to be a fake Republican, so that is not surprising. Varcoe claims to be a party officer but another article on here showed he was the one who was responsible for sending most of the party's money out of the county where it would not help local candidates. Why he did so is now becoming apparent. He is trying to sabotage local GOP candidates.

Commented: Monday, October 24th, 2022 @ 8:07 am By: Rino Hunter

Fauci should have been in prison long ago. Faker and frauder.

Commented: Monday, October 24th, 2022 @ 6:40 am By: Hood Richardson

Jann, thank you for that link, the one I had for rumble was showing page not available when I went back to it. Right now all of rumble is showing a service not available.

Commented: Monday, October 24th, 2022 @ 5:32 am By: Countrygirl1411

rumble.com

YouTube has messed with Robert Kennedy's movie already.
Try Rumble!
Alot of information

Commented: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 7:36 pm By: PK

Steve, I agree on all points. While I appreciate the forum sponsors putting these things together, they really are limited in what can be accomplished.

You're right. The public is relegated to the sidelines entirely. Usually, the general public is not even there. In this one I saw a lot of family and friends of candidates. Some of my friends attended along with my sister and her husband. I think there was one person there that could actually vote in the district I'm running in.

I guess there wasn't much to cover concerning my two answers. The WDN article focused on some work I did over 35 years ago, and I'm pretty sure they didn't have much understanding of just what that job was.

It is way better to have a real debate. Since my opponent did not attend, it would have been good to at least be able to critique her statement that was read aloud by the moderator. For example, about those "growth" pronouncements: Isn't that a way of getting around the hard data of woefully bad proficiency scores? Looks like this format does little to illuminate a public servant's record or to force the candidate to make an effort to defend their record. That said, I did deal with those proficiency scores in one of my answers and in my concluding remarks.

To do this right it would have to be done one race at a time. There is just not enough time to squeeze in all the races and most of the candidates in one evening. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it right. We should. Do we really have so much competing local news to make it impossible? Why not have a week of real debates? That would supply a lot of stories for newspapers and news blogs. Also, that would be very relevant local news.

Commented: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 12:38 am By: Charles Hickman

Charles, a "candidate forum" with rigged questions does little for the public. The public is shut out of being participants and only allowed to be spectators, and that is not fair to the public. A better format is to have questions come from the public, not canned questions from the forum sponsors.

Indeed, it is better to have a real debate. I like the format of the Lincoln - Douglas debates, where half of the questions were composed by each candidate, and there was no moderator to throw his / her spin into it. A moderator's role should only be to keep order, not inject their opinions into debates. That is why the Republican National Committee has voted NOT to have its presidential candidate participate in debates sponsored by the bent Commission on Presidential Debates, which since it has existed has used only liberal moderators and given them far too much control of the process. Future presidential debates will now be negotiated directly between the parties.

Commented: Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 @ 8:37 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The whole Biden administration is corrupt

Commented: Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 @ 1:12 pm By: Scottsmithz

What was that old saying, "Birds of a feather flock together"?

Commented: Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 @ 11:52 am By:

Word has it that Rogerson was angry today at his tent in front of the Board of Elections about all the attention his Inman sign was getting on the internet, but he still had the big Lucy Inman sign by his tent with his own sign on the tailgate of the truck holding the Inman sign. You know, the truck belonging to Rogerson's financial sugar daddy, "woke" Democrat political boss Herman Gaskens.

Commented: Friday, October 21st, 2022 @ 7:16 pm By: Conservative Voter

Fetterman is darned near being a communist. He is a danger to America. Anybody but Fetterman.

Commented: Friday, October 21st, 2022 @ 12:34 pm By: John Steed

This is why it is so important to change this school board! There are three conservative candidates running that can give us the votes we need to make some changes. We desperately need Charles Hickman in district 2. Let your churches and clubs know that they need to get involved. Call your friends and family to go and vote. 30% of Beaufort County students are at reading grade level. Why are we sitting back and allowing this to happen? You will get what you vote for! We need management by walking around. We need parents involved! We need your votes!

Commented: Friday, October 21st, 2022 @ 8:18 am By: