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The campaign signs of Ed Booth and John Edwards use the same color scheme, a blue background with white letters, even a similar shade of blue. Isn't blue considered a Democrat color?

Just sayin'

Commented: Friday, September 11th, 2026 @ 5:20 pm By: Bubba

Taxes and spending are far away the most important issue in our county commission race. We need to end the spendthrift tax-and-spend coalition now running our county commission. As we look at candidates, we need to look at 3 things: 1) how strong are their state positions on spending and taxes, 2) what is their past record on taxes and spending, and 3) do they have a consistent position on taxes and spending other than in public office?

As to their campaign positions, both Stan Deatherage and Ashley Woolard have taken strong positions against excessive spending and high taxes. John Edwards says some of the right things but will not make a solid commitment. Ed Booth will not make a commitment on taxes at all.

On actual records in office, Stan Deatherage has voted against every tax increase offered and for every tax cut offered. Ed Booth is the opposite, and has voted against every tax cut offered and for every tax increase offered. The other two have not been in office to have a record.

Outside of public office, Stan Deatherage, Ashley Woolard, and Ed Booth have been involved in community of political activity for years. All of them have been consistent in their positions on tax and spending issues in that context - Deatheage and Woolard for less spending and lower taxes, and Booth for more spending and higher taxes.

Edarerds just popped up at filing time. Nobody had ever heard of him as a public figure before. This was much like Frankie waters and Randy Walker, who talked a good game to a point but quickly turned into tax and spend politicians. He seems to be more of the same.

When it comes to who we can trust on taxes and spending, I would rank them in this order:
1) Stan Deatherage - strong commitment, strong record, consistent position over time
2) Ashley Woolard - strong commitement, consistent position over time, but no record inoffice
3) John Eadwards - weak commitment, no longtime position, no record in office
4) Ed Booth - no commitment, record and longtime position on the wrong side

The bad thing is, that we need to get two of these elected to get a pro-taxpayer majority on the commission, but with limited voting, we only have one vote.

Commented: Thursday, September 10th, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Sounds like an exciting outcome. Your children are gonna love it!

Commented: Thursday, September 10th, 2026 @ 2:55 pm By: big Bob

Boris Johnson's British government cited and fined employers of illegal aliens and landlords who rented to them. Unfortunately, the current Laobour government in no longer doing that. Here in the US, we need a similar crackdown on employers and landlords of illegal aliens.

There was a link posted here a year or so ago when a meat packing company in a western state was raided and a large part of its employees detained as illegal aliens. They moaned about not being able to find workers, but the day word got out, there were more than enough Amercican applicants lined up seeking those jobs.

Commented: Thursday, September 10th, 2026 @ 2:33 pm By: borderhawk

"Woke" nutjobs like Bob see "race" and "racism" under every rock. What part of "illegal" does he not understand?

Commented: Thursday, September 10th, 2026 @ 10:51 am By: Bubba

You think water meters hooked up to the internet is bad, wait till Ai decides it doesn’t need us.

Commented: Thursday, September 10th, 2026 @ 8:57 am By: Big Bob

The politician who is an "idiot or a traitor" is the one who sells his country out to illegal aliens. That dude Tusk ought to look in a mirror if he wants to see one. We have a whole lot like that in our Democrat party.

Commented: Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 @ 2:33 pm By: Bubba

More like we look away because the citizens profiting look just like us.
A good example:

www.msn.com

Commented: Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 @ 12:55 pm By: big Bob

What is obvious is that the rats are leaving the sinking ship of climate alarmist ideology. Some rats are clearly not smart enough to do that.

Not that many years ago, the climate alarmists were beating their gums that "global warming" was going to cause more and bigger hurricanes, but now, in reality, we have the slowest hurricane season since 1941.

Commented: Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 @ 12:17 pm By: Rino Hunter

Just pointing out the obvious.

Commented: Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 @ 11:50 am By: big Bob

Tillis has been a terrible "5th column" traitor, but even worse has been Phil Berger. Berger sold his soul for cash to the special interests, and as a result has helped Roy Cooper get his top liberal agenda items through the General Assembly - repealing the Bathroom privacy law (HB2), adopting the NC Green New Deal (HB951), and passing the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Fortunately, conservatives took Berger out in his primary this year, in spite of all his special interest money.

Unfortunately, on his way out, Undocumented Democrat Phil Berger targeted a number of conservatives around the state, and special interest money took some of them down. Berger tried to rind and fund candidates against all the Freedom Caucus leadership. One of those was here in our own 79th district House seat, where we will now have a warmed over Marc Basnight Democrat, now posturing as a "Republican" instead of the hard charging head of the conservative Freedom Caucus.We will not be able to do anythng about that for another two years.

Commented: Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 @ 11:22 am By: Rino Hunter

PK, the projects for weather modification proposed in recent years by climate alarmists are a potential threat to all of us. We do not need to be playing these games with natural processes. Bob, CO2 has never impacted climate in the past, and the contention that it is suddenly doing so now is illogical. CO2 is a very minor greenhouse gas, and the amount of CO2 produced by human activity is only a tiny part of what goes into the atmosphere every year.

Commented: Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 @ 6:58 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer