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Primary “Elections” Importance

BY: HOOD RICHARDSON

In my opinion the primary election process is more important than the general election. The general election is political parties, Democrats versus Republicans, going head-to-head. Each party believes their candidate is much better than the other party’s candidate simply because there is an “R” or a “D” behind the name. This is not always true. It is true that both parties have become very polarized during the past few years.

Republicans have a hard time finding candidates that are truly conservative. This is true in the South because the socialistic and even communist beliefs of the Democrats have been spurned by most Southerners during the past 20 years. In order to get elected in this area one should be a registered Republican. A lot of Democrat charlatans have registered themselves as Republicans. Many of these people get elected and show their true liberal Democrat colors with no shame. Hence, the coining of the word RINO (Republican In Name Only).

During the past few years, we have seen lot of this in Beaufort County. The RINO herd has been nurtured by those who control the Beaufort County Republican Party Executive Committee. There are several examples of bad behavior that have been sanctioned by the Beaufort County Republican Party. Among these are Fake Frankie Waters. Waters refused to sign a pledge to support the Republican Platform. The Republican party still endorsed him. Waters wrote checks to Democrat candidates while sitting on the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee. Waters votes for Democrats to hold Board of Commissioners office while there are five Republicans sitting on a seven-member board. However, Waters would not be Chairman without the two Democrat’s votes. Two Democrats and two RINOs control the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners. That is why taxpayers cannot get a reduction in taxes with plenty of money piled up in the bank. Overtax and spend is a trademark of Democrats.

Another example of Democrat behavior in the Republican Party was the demand that a conservative Republican, Stacey Davis, resign because the School Superintendent tried to strongarm the District Attorney into bringing charges against her for getting on a school bus to resolve an issue with her child. The Chairman of the Beaufort County Republican Party, Carolyn Garris, and Representative Kidwell demanded that she resign. Their “beef” is that she beat a long time Democrat to win a school board seat. The Superintendent saw trouble coming and gave her a hard time about advertising while she was running for office. Let’s see, a liberal school superintendent, a RINO party chairman and a pompous House member did not like her conservatism. Because Kidwell votes conservative in Raleigh, a lot of people are surprised to know that he regularly attacks conservative Republicans.

There are recently elected school board members, Donald Shreve from Bath and Daniel Hudson from Pinetown who represented themselves as conservative Republicans and after election could not wait to vote to consolidate schools by closing S. W. Snowden in Aurora. They forced students to ride a bus an additional two hours each day. It cost the county money to close the school. Again, Democrats in RINO clothing.

All of the above are examples of why primary elections are important and why you should vote in them. Primary elections are how political parties cleanse themselves of their dirt. It is too late to make changes in the November election. We are stuck with whatever the primary election produced.

Joe Biden is an example of a politician who stayed in office many decades becoming more powerful and corrupt with each election. If one tenth of what he has been accused of is true, he and most of his family should be in prison. They sold the government for money they placed in their pocket. The simple fix for the Biden thing was for an honest Democrat to run against him in primary elections. It may have taken more than one primary election to make the change, but it would have happened. Democrats running against Biden would have encouraged Republicans to run in the general election. Biden made the false premise that he was unbeatable stick in the public mind. Also, I believe, both the Democrats and Republicans were prospering in the shadow of the Biden lawlessness. Recruiting candidates for primary elections is at the root of honest Government. Recruiting numerous primary candidates is the most important thing a political party should do. However, both parties want to stick with their incumbents, whether good or bad, because they want to win (at the expense of honest government).

I realize that losing an election hurts both one’s pride and pocketbook. However, there has to be a few people with enough character to understand running for public office is public service in the quest for honest government.

The Conservative Club will produce a sample ballot and palm card identifying conservative Republican candidates endorsed by the Club before early voting begins. We vet candidates.

If we elect truly conservative people to office in November, we will get a reduction in property taxes and the Snowden School reopened.

Primary elections are our best opportunity to cleanse ourselves of bad actors in any political party.