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I spoke about Charlie Kirk at church today to some very sincerely Christian folk, and I must admit at one point, I got a bit choked up, as I related the symbolic slaughter of Charlie as a lamb, just as our Lord and Savior was tortured and slaughtered as God's own Son; His own "Lamb of God" given in His awesome grace for our eternal salvation.

Commented: Sunday, September 21st, 2025 @ 2:07 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I agree with a lot of what is being said here about the local party. More times than not it seems like many of the local Republican Party leaders are more interested in going after conservatives and especially native conservatives than they are interested in taking on leftists and crooks. We've got some very real local issues that need to be dealt with, and they are consumed with their self-interest and personal soap opera drama. These very loud people do not speak for me.

Also, like Jeff I have found that a few of the School Board members call me back. Most do not.

Commented: Sunday, September 21st, 2025 @ 11:14 am By: Van Zant

Jeff Williamson: I would be satisfied if these so-called leaders of the Beaufort County GOP would simply act accordingly, in their position to do so, to police the elected FAKE Beaufort County "Republicans," who govern like Democrats, once they lie to get elected under the premise of the local Republican brand, a brand these former long lived Democrats did absolutely nothing to build.

I often question: Are these local GOP mouthpieces sincere in their coddling of RINOs, or just the most extraordinary of RINO Whisperers?

So far, these elected RINOS, under the complete cover of the Beaufort County GOP, have done tremendous damage to the Republican brand, and to Beaufort County's tax paying citizens, many of whom are my constituents, by their governing as Center-Left RINOs.

Commented: Sunday, September 21st, 2025 @ 9:36 am By: Stan Deatherage

Michael Whatley is not to be trusted at all on illegal immigration. He is a disciple of Thom Tillis and spent many years as a special interest lobbyist. The special interests and the left are the ones pushing amnesty and open borders. Tillis has been an amnesty whore and Whatley would be one, too.

Commented: Sunday, September 21st, 2025 @ 9:27 am By: borderhawk

Tim Walz was the intellectual doppelganger to Kamala Harris, and therefore, there just was no great cognitive edge to their hapless campaign to lead this Representative Republic.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 6:37 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Befuddled: If I had the time I would pay more attention to writing on local issues, but I do not have the time; however, I do have the profound ability to accept contributions, on this expansive platform, from our community of such good and wise people.

And also Befuddled, I will also do my very best to return every request from my constituents for comment and answer, or just to quickly listen to whomever might need my time challenged ear.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 5:42 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Stan, that is because u & NOW are "invisible" to a select group of bubble-people locally. But feel lucky, because most of us r
invisible to everyone of an elite nature...those politically, elected & bureaucratic.
Kidwell doesnt return communications, the GOP Chairwoman doesnt return communications, the Mayor doesnt, th Mayoral Candidate doesnt, some candidates such as Fritz dont even provide us w a contact method. If WeThePeople do make contact, they then make note of your phone
number & then ghost us. WeThePpl seem 2b just noisy bastards to them, & so must b silenced either by ignoring, or slandering.
They would have us believe that they r TOOOOO BUSY...for our
miserable human concerns.
If they dont have time for us b4 an election, they damn sure wont
after they win & become "important."
Bec of this, NOW should spend more time trying to focus on local small community issues to help draw The ppl together. Currently we r all invisible & alone.
Sayeth The Invisible Man

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 4:46 pm By: Befuddled

RH: I'm wondering the same things. The instant release of the tape does suggest political motivation. I'm hearing the superintendent did it unilaterally. I think the School Board needs to make an official statement regarding this. So far, they look as pathetic as the BC Republican Party Executive Committee.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 1:41 pm By: Van Zant

I have wondered about that almost instant release of that tape. That almost never seems to happen in government unless politically motivated. On that Tennessee school shooting a couple of years ago, they have not even today officially released the shooter's manifesto. A copy leaked after a year or so, but nobody knows if what leaked is complete.

Did the School Board authorize Cheeseman to release it? Did he even ask them? Did he seek advise of legal counsel? If he did, that legal counsel would have been that Durham lefty Democrat, who the school board member in question has been asking for a lot of information on, from what I am told. So does a lawyer who is a big time Democrat political operative advising against a Republican elected official, and one who is raising questions about that lawyer's own continuing in that position, have a conflict of interest in offering advice in the matter? Of course given that conflict of interest, Cheeseman may have kept him out of the loop.

The way this whole thing went down does not pass the smell test. What it reeks of most is rancid cheese.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By: Rino Hunter

This issue has opened a huge can of worms. There are a LOT of things that need to be addressed. In my view the first thing to be dealt with is the fact that Carolyn Garris and Keith Kidwell are, so far, being allowed to speak for the Beaufort County Republican Party. I've called several BC Executive Committee members, and they have not met about this matter. Garris and Kidwell have no authority to make public pronouncements with the authority of the Beaufort County Republican Party. They should be reprimanded for their inappropriate public actions.

The pompous hypocrisy of many of the people in these types of positions is breathtaking. The efforts by people trying to restore some integrity to the local Republican party have been set back light years by this episode alone.

On all things, this seems to be the way things are done in Beaufort County these days. It is depressing seeing what we are becoming.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By: Van Zant

I saw that video on TV. What's the big deal? They are making a mountain out of a molehill. It looks like a political hatchet job to me.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 7:44 am By: Bubba

This is just another example of Cheeseman wading into politics when he distributed that tape. It is like Cheeseman's frivolous complaints about a campaign sign of an opponent of one of his school board brownnosers or his crybaby crusade against a fundraising letter of his opponents. No wonder Cheeseman has the county chairman of the Durham County Democrat Party as Beaufort County School Board Attorney.

Commented: Friday, September 19th, 2025 @ 9:35 pm By: Conservative Voter