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Queen Garris Presents the Victory Committee

BY: HOOD RICHARDSON

Finally, after 13 months of asking, Queen Garris, Chairman of the Beaufort County Republican Party has presented the members of her secret “Victory Committee”. They are Carolyn Garris, Ashley Woolard, Steve Rader, Paul Varcoe, Keith Kidwell and their political consultant, Greg Dority. There is a lot to be said about the various abilities, inabilities and political ethics of all these people. I know all of them well. There are several other people whom I am surprised were not named. They hover around the Victory Committee and carry out the wishes of the Victory Committee. We will talk about some of these people in later articles, presuming the Victory Committee is not willing to come clean about its activities.

The Victory Committee was never approved by the new Executive Committee that took office in 2025 and possibly no other Executive Committee.

Who is the Chairman of the Victory Committee? Do they keep minutes? When if ever, will they report their activities to the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee? Who and how do they draw funds from the Executive Committee without notice or permission of any kind being given by the Beaufort County Executive Committee sitting as a body. A question for the audit committee, “What signed documents does David French, the Treasurer, have to support all those checks he has written?”.

Is the Queen going to appoint an honest Audit Committee? Maybe it will be composed of members of the Victory Committee. These and some of the yet unidentified operatives of the Victory Committee are the only people who would dare to give the Queen a clean financial bill of health.

Those who have been funding and donating money to the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee need to be aware of how their money is being used to defeat conservative Republican candidates. If you are a liberal Republican who supports the collusion between Fake Frankie Waters and Randy Walker with the two Democrats on the Board of County Commissioners, you are in the right place. This political collusion has denied a decrease in the tax rate, promoted the closing of the school in Aurora, and caused Beaufort County to set a tax rate that increases tax collections, 7.5 percent higher than before the revaluation, among other things.

It was the Victory Committee that spent more than $10,000 to go after conservatives in the nonpartisan 2025 City of Washington elections and because of their carelessness cost two Republicans seats on the Washington City Council. The Victory Committee succeeded in electing two Democrats because they were busy backstabbing conservatives and Republicans.

If you do not support RINOs you should give your political money directly to your preferred Republican candidate. If you support liberals and RINOs keep writing checks to the Beaufort County Republican Party. Money is important in electing candidates. Overall, the Republican Party has a good name. Don’t let this good name con you into supporting RINO’s.

There is an abundance of political ethical rot among the members of the Victory Committee. Keith Kidwell served on the Victory Committee while running an active campaign for the House of Representatives. Ashley Woolard is now a candidate for the Board of Commissioners and still serves on the Victory Committee. Greg Dority is their “political consultant”. Dority has a history of entering primary elections across North Carolina, pretending to be a conservative, in order to split the conservative vote and allow liberals to win elections. It is an oxymoron for the Victory Committee to have a political consultant when everyone on the Victory Committee is a political “operator”.

The political ethical rot is limitless. The Queen serves with the “approval and consent” of the Executive Committee. She appointed herself to the Victory Committee in order to circumvent the wishes of the Executive Committee. This is in political character for her because she withheld the resignation of the Register of Deeds from the Executive Committee so she could maneuver herself into that job that pays more than $78,000 per year.