Conservative Club Meets: Thursday, June 13, at 6:30 pm | Eastern North Carolina Now

News Release:

    It has been a while since I sent you an email. A lot has been going on during the month of may.

    It is budget time. The Liberals and RINOs on the board of commissioners have succeeded in not filming the budget deliberations this year. The deliberations are almost rehearsed without the cameras being present. Not a lot of questions were asked and the answers given by staff and the Liberals were not very acceptable. This is another continuation budget which means they took all of last years expenditures and added to them. No effort was made to look at over staffing or to take out of the budget items that do not need to be spent each year, like buying new guns and cars for the sheriff's department. Commissioners sided with the sheriff on a bill that would have kept all counties in North Carolina from being sanctuaries for Illegal Immigrants. the bill would have put fines on the sheriff if he did not do his job. Coleman is good at not doing his job, he did not need the law is his way.

    Frankie Waters was very much in charge. He made the motions for the only two savings. They are to fire our lobbyist and to fire the person filming the meetings, Randy Walker. About $60,000 in savings. That is it for savings.

    The goal in all of this is to restrict the public's access to information and to produce a truly dull filming of the meetings so the public will not watch.

    Frankie ran things. He made the motion to raise taxes one cent (a two percent increase). We are spending more money next year than we spent this year. About $700,000 more. The Democrats and Jerry Evans willingly supported his moves. Gary Brinn makes enough Conservative votes to make himself look conservative.

    The required budget hearing is on Monday, June 3, beginning at 5:30 pm. we meet at the new digs on west second street (not on third street). Rumor has it that the schools may show up in force. The new superintendent asked for an additional two million dollars, basically to save jobs and increase teacher supplements. They want more money with a declining school population.

    Our next conservative club meeting is Thursday, June 13, at 6:30 pm at King Chicken. We will have a lot of information on the budget process and a lot of wasted spending. the price is still $11.00 for barbecue and chicken including the drink and tax. Bring a friend. We are working on a speaker.

    Even though we have Donald Trump in Washington doing a great job. we still have the Liberals and RINOs in local government. We have done nothing about them. Trumps work will have very little effect in the long run if local politicians do not help him.