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The National Rifle Association has also endorsed Keith Kidwell for NC House. Kidwell has the backing of both of the gun rights groups active in the General Assembly, NRA and the more active GRNC.

The NRA did not endorse in the US Senate primary, but they gave both Budd and Walker "A" ratings. GRNC strongly recommended Budd, saying Walker had no chance and McCrory vetoed key gun rights legislation as governor.

Commented: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 5:31 pm By: John Steed

NC's largest and most active gun rights organization, Grassroots North Carolina has strongly recommended Ted Budd for US Senate and Keith Kidwell for NC House. Only a handful of their recommendations are "strongly" recommended but these two are. GRNC notes that both Budd and Kidwell have been very active in pushing gun rights legislation, and that Budd's major opponent, Pat McCrory, vetoed a key gun rights bill when he was governor.

On the US Congress race, GRNC made no endorsement. They noted that Greg Murphy had voted the wrong way on a couple of key gun rights votes, but that Cowden had not returned his survey.

GRNC recommended Norm Sanderson in the 1st Senate District and Tony Moore in the Pitt County state House disctrict.

Commented: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 3:00 pm By: John Steed

In doing some spring cleaning yesterday, I ran across an old political postcard that reminds me of the ads I am hearing on the radio from Tandy Dunn hitting the RINO leader on the county commission over taxes. The postcard was from Gary Brinn attacking Jay McRoy over taxes. It's wording is "Feeling a little lighter in your wallet? --- We've found your pickpocket --- Jay McRoy raised your taxes". The illustration shows a pickpocket lifting a wallet. Jay McRoy was a tax-and-spend RINO commissioner at the time who was allied to Jerry Langley. I don't remember now which election year it was, but pounding on McRoy on taxes led Gary Brinn to defeat Jay McRoy in the GOP primary. Taxpayers can only hope the similar radio ads can do the same for Tandy Dunn against Frankie Waters. Frankie Waters is today's Jay McRoy.

Commented: Sunday, May 8th, 2022 @ 9:24 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Still spouting that Buzzeo / Varcoe / Langley / Waters drivel, are you Cratch? To be in control requires a majority on a body like a county commission. The guy you call "Emporer" has never had a majority on the commission. At best, he is leader of the opposition. Who does have the power? The man behind the throne, leftie Jerry Langley. If there is an Emporer, he is only a puppet, and the current puppet would be Frankie Waters. That is the group with the majority and the power. The goal this election should be to eliminate Langley's role as the power broker.

What is important is policy, NOT personality. Jerry Langley is the AOC of Beaufort County, although he does not shout his ideology like she does. Here is some research for you; go read the online questionaires Langley answered in his House race. Hopefully they are still online. He is much farther to the left than he postures on the commission. There is not a lot of policy daylight between him and AOC. And this is Frankie Waters' boss, and the one that Slann would cross party lines to support.

You have said you think taxes and spending are not important and that illegal immigration is just a "distraction" but to real conservatives those are key issues.

You also do not seem to understand the concept of the Uniparty, which is made up of establishment Republicans and liberal Democrats who collude with each other, the mushy middle. Strong conservative Republicans, and for that matter left wing Democrats generally stand for principle of one sort or another, and are not Uniparty. Langley's incestuous relationships with weak and vain "Republicans" is the very definition of Uniparty. Frankie Waters is part of that and Dawn Slann wants to be.

You spout the Langleyite excuses for bloat in our county government.

The conservative Democrat used to have quite a population in NC politics but they are now an extinct critter. The best Democrat politicians one finds today are the opportunists who occasionally might vote the right way. On the Beaufort County Commission, the Democrats we have are a pair of progressives, Langley and Booth.

Face it, Cratch, in Beaufort County politics you are backing the progressives and the fellow travelers of the progressives. You also advocate a Uniparty arrangement to run our county government that is anti-cpnservative. There was a time, long ago that there were conservative Democrats on our county commission, but that time is long past.

Leadership on our county commission should be organized around principle - conservative principle - NOT power, ego, and ambition, as it has been under the Langley cabal.

Commented: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 4:13 pm By: John Steed

Mr. Cratch, All you seem able to do on county politics is parrot the narrative of Buzzeo / Varcoe / Waters / Langley. You claim you did not get it from any of them. Maybe you got it from their operative Slann? If you bothered to do any real research you would find that narrative is hogwash.

Commented: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 10:27 am By: John Steed

Mr. Cratch, you tend to deflect instead of directly answer anyone's questions.

However, from your responses, I think it is clear 1) that you are a follower of the Q-anon group, 2) that you espouse similar theories of county government and the forces within it as Buzzeo, Varcoe, Waters, and Langley, 3) that you will not spell out what your "make Beaufort County great again philosophy is, 4) that you have no evidence from public materials from her campaign to back up your assertion that Mrs. Slann is a "conservative" (my own research fines none, either), 5) that you are content to allow very leftwing Jerry Langley to be the power behind the throne in Beaufort County government, 6) that you share the same boogey man (Richardson) in county government as Buzzeo, Varcoe, Waters, and Langley.

Your positions on county government seem strange because you seem to get in on national government, supporting conservatives Ted Budd and Tony Cowden (we agree on those).

Marching in lockstep with Langley in county government is not a lot different from marching in lockstep with Pelosi and Schumer in national government.

Commented: Friday, May 6th, 2022 @ 5:16 pm By: John Steed

Cratch does not seem to be good at answering questions. Is he or is he not a member or supporter of Q-anon? His defense of the group implies that he is.

Commented: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 8:05 pm By: Conservative Voter

Hello, Emperor! I see you've taken the bait yet again. I hoped you would go down this road as it was forseen. It's ever so obvious that you have no clue about what you speak of in regards to "QAnon". "QAnon" doesn't exist as "Q" , an alleged military intelligence operation, and "Anonymous" are two separate entities. You've got alot of homework to do.

I always thought Roger Moore and "Q" made a great team, if I may say so 😎. The "Q-Shaman" , Jake Chansley, believes himself to be a Viking but there can be only one.....and it ain't him. I saw him briefly in DC and he is a little man. It was also below 30 degrees that day. I'm 6'3 and 250 lbs.....I had on black leather and I was cold. Where were you on Jan 6th? I was at the Capitol along with other Patriotos from Beaufort County....have you read the articles I wrote?

Thank you for playing.....future proves past😎👌

Btw, your "Jewish Space Laser" statement is a revelation of your intelligence and how far you will go to hide the fact that you're out of your league. You go from "Mexican Patriot" to "Jewish Space Lasers". I'm beginning to think you're grasping at straws here as all of this is foreign to you....no pun intended. History repeats itself for those too ignorant to learn the truth.

You're proof of that. Please continue to embarrass yourself. You're doing a great job👌

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Commented: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 4:56 pm By: William H. Cratch lll

I'm hearing closet racism here. I think the evidence speaks for itself; it just doesn't fit the narrative The Emperor is pushing.

This all boils down to perception and understanding. Neither are being utilized by our "elected" officials.

Again, if you want to know; simply ask the woman outright....with respect. It's not hard.

Commented: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 9:22 pm By: William H. Cratch lll

Steed,

Are you that braindead? Instead of asking me; ask her yourself. I believe she'd sit down and talk with you if Hood would allow it. It's obvious that both discernment and deductive reasoning aren't being utilized here.

Be a man. Be a Patrioto.

If you actually got out to events, you would know that Mrs. Slann is very much involved in conservative grassroots efforts. Get off your ass and see for yourself. Miss Diane Rufino can verify this as well.

Again...il Donaldo Trumpo. Go to YouTube, Telegram or Truth Social.

You don't even realize what you don't know. Stop deflecting by projecting. Kidwell does that too. When will the Republicans admit that it's past time to amend their overall strategy? Ted Budd laid it out perfectly:

The federal government isn't going to FIX 2020. It's up to state legislators AND local government to fix this problem per the actual constitutional lane. I've seen theater, on the local and state level, but I haven't seen an aggressive effort to fix BOCO. If you don't think BOCO had irregularities; think again. Someone doesn't stay in office for 25 years because they're squeaky clean.....they know how to play the game.

Also, I seriously doubt Langley follows il Donaldo Trumpo or knows anything about it. Hey, y'all have something in common!

Commented: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 2:55 pm By: William H. Cratch lll

Checkmate 😎. NCSWIC

Country girl,

In all fairness ma'am, I have been sounding the alarm on "Mission Command" for quite some time now. I was under the impression that my articles were being displayed on BCN for all to see? Also, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to do connect the dots and use context clues. All of this information I state is public information and can be found if you have common sense....many choose not to accept it.

To answer Mr. Rader:

Don't play like you don't know what I'm talking about. I've seen it done in other counties and know for a fact that what you deny has happened in Beaufort County. Don't play me for an idiot, sir. If you're familiar with Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", all of this makes perfect sense. Sadly, I'm finding out that many of our conservative officials seem to know nothing about both Sun Tzu and Machiavelli.....but somehow they've managed to stay in office for over 3/4's of my life.

Continue to call me a "conspiracy theorist"....alot of what Patriotos have been screaming for the past 10 years has come true.

Btw, oh "conservative warriors who know the people"; "Patrioto" is a term used by President Trump and his team on social media platforms like Telegram, Truth Social and Rumble. If you would have taken to time to read what has been published in "Mission Command", you would have seen that I've been trying to alert officials I believed to be intelligent to important matters being seen and confirmed by boots on the ground. I warned you about Kidwell when he pulled his stunt at the Pitt County GOP, even published evidence to support my "Led Zeppelin Conspiracy Theories" and not a one of you said a single word either way. You stroke the ego of dufus megalomaniacs like Kidwell and Murphy but crap on warriors like Unca Tony Cowden via not fully supporting them in the first place.

.....il Donaldo Trumpo. Look it up😎. You have alot of homework to do. Remember, I come in peace but the truth hurts. I want to see us work together to Make BOCO Great Again but you refuse to admit you're wrong and are simply playing politics because someone is calling out your bullshit.

Commented: Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 @ 7:10 pm By: William H. Cratch lll

Well I can see you have to be a Republican to ride this train here. Democrats don’t stand a chance here. Well I don’t vote Republican or Democrat, I vote for the best person for the job. Looking at the Sheriff candidates, I am really leaning towards Harold Bright. He has a no nonsense approach and has stated several times he is for all people not just a party. He has 30 years of service so I think he’s he smart choice. With all the turmoil our current Sheriff has put us in, I know we need change. I see my concerns about Mr. Rogerson still haven’t been answered but the theory about him being related to other candidates is scary. Just concretes my decision even more.

Commented: Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 @ 2:52 pm By: Harvey Dickman

I have to wonder how long Mr. Cratch has know about this "family" connection to the 3 candidates and why he waited until now to make it known here.

Commented: Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 @ 8:53 am By: Countrygirl1411

Mr. Harvey,

I, too, share your questions about "Democrat Rock Star", Corey Rogerson. From what I have observed, it could possibly be discovered that someone allegedly sniffed out a mutiny being instigated from an outside "inside" source. Also, I hear that it is also quite possible that Rogerson is related, by marriage, to Hammonds as well as the nephew of Mr. Tandy Dunn. This isn't conspiracy theory; it's public knowledge. Is this a family affair? I think we have Republicans who told Rogerson to run against Sheriff Coleman? They've done it before.

I happen to find the scene below from "The Dead Zone" (1983) very fitting as I feel it describes the current state of affairs within our local government.

A handful of Republicans are blindly following who they are told, even though there is published evidence damning those they proudly support, and they're also attacking two Patrioto conservatives:

1. Sheriff Coleman

2. Dawn Brinson Slann


Concerned Taxpayer, I'm aware that there have been a handful of "debates" but they're still very much controlled. I have looked back through raw video footage and I have to say that none of your picks handled themselves in a manner that indicated they were strong MAGA candidates and Patriotos. I saw people who were threatened by DBS and even Frankie. As I've said before, it takes two to tango.

The Republicans are the same as Democrats. They're both full of shit and think the people will do as they say because they say so.

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Commented: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 7:01 pm By: William H. Cratch lll

For me, as a county commissioner, every issue invariably deals with what it will cost taxpayers, and is that cost essential to our survival.

While Illegal Immigration is NOW the second largest cost to Beaufort County taxpayers, with the Biden /Harris Open Southern Border and Resettlement Project in perpetual overdrive, this terrible Democratic Socialist initiative to remake our society, our Constitutional republic into something unrecognizable, will eventually make Beaufort County a "Border County," and it will not take too many years before this enormous self-inflicted mammoth expense will become Beaufort County's largest cost to all Beaufort County taxpayers, irrespective of their heritage.

This knowledge can be simply derived by performing simple math, and by knowing the essence of this issue - the unwavering variables. Knowing this issue as well as I do now after dealing with it for the last couple of decades while I have served as a Rightly concerned Beaufort County commissioner, I will never stop advocating for all three levels of government to do what is Right in defending our sovereign borders ... remembering ... 'All politics, all governing is local.'

Why other less knowledgeable politicians, and their constituents, cannot grasp the dire nature of this inescapable mega issue is a pure wonder to me.

Commented: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 3:55 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I am wondering if the voters in Beaufort County are asking the same questions I am about Democrat candidate Corey Rogerson? In May of 2021 Rogerson was fired by current Sheriff Ernie Coleman. Rogerson stated that he was given no reason for his termination. Sheriff Coleman has also failed to give us all a reason. I’m sorry but if I own a business and am looking to fill a position and an individual is applying for that opening, I would want to know why a person was fired from their previous employer. I also believe if anyone is fired from any job by their boss, they know why. Rogerson’s case just doesn’t make sense.
Rogerson only worked only 2 years as a Beaufort County deputy. In that 2 years I am sure he saw corruption or unethical things in the command staff and some of the deputies. Well did you not hear me say Rogerson was also previously a deputy? Rogerson did not have a problem then with the so called wrong doings and saw first-hand the so called problems that were there. My question is why did he not say anything then? Rogerson did not say a thing until it effected his pockets. All of a sudden he wants to become our savior? I’m sorry I don’t buy it. I think Mr. Rogerson is running for Sheriff due to a vendetta against the current Sheriff not because he wants to help anyone from Beaufort County. What better way to get back at a man than to try and take his job?
I did not ask these questions to belittle or cause anyone any grief. I knew if I asked these on Facebook or Mr. Rogerson directly, nobody else would hear the answers to these questions that a lot of us are asking. I pray Mr. Rogerson answers these issues honestly. I agree with some of the things Mr. Rogerson has said in his public forums but with the small amount of experience he has compared to the other candidates, I/we need more information.

Commented: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 3:15 pm By: Harvey Dickman

Thanks for the recognition Borderhawk.

It is important for all elected leaders to remind constituents and citizens of the importance of actually defending our sovereign southern border.

Commented: Thursday, April 28th, 2022 @ 2:45 pm By: Stan Deatherage