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Queen Garris - Déjà vu “All Over Again”

BY: HOOD RICHARDSON

Deja vu is a French expression. It means “already seen”. The saying “Déjà vu, all over again” was made famous by the baseball player Yogi Berri. Queen Garris keeps plowing the same ground over and over. This is indicative of her mindset that somehow, she has been elected to be dictator of Beaufort County Republicans. She is upset that almost all of us do not believe everything she says. Actually, almost everything Queen Garris says is either untrue or spun to her dictator methods.

Queen Garris, without the approval of the Beaufort County Executive Committee, went on the Beaufort County Republican Party Facebook site and unloaded a rendition of lies headlined “STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN CAROLYN GARRIS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY”. Again, no part of this statement has been approved by the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee.

Her statements attacking elected and candidate Republicans is disloyal. Her mind is locked on Councilman Joe Davis who is not a member of either the Republican or Democrat or any other party and is not now running for office. She says nothing about the elections coming up in November. She attacks myself who is not running for office. She violates her duty to support all Republicans when she attacks Stan Deatherage who is running for County Commissioner in the November 2026 elections.

Queen Garris has appointed a so called “Victory Committee” to run Republican Party activities. It is this Committee that spends the money the Republican Party raises. They decide who gets money and who does not. The Executive Committee has approved the spending of only several hundred dollars during the past several years while the Victory Committee without the approval of the Executive Committee spends the estimated twenty thousand dollars donated by Republicans. Garris and her buddies on the Victory Committee dislike conservative Republicans such as Stan Deatherage and Hood Richardson.

You do not see Garris complaining about those whom the Victory Committee secretly supports. Look at the November 2026 sample ballot when it comes out and vote for those whom Queen Garris is complaining about. They are the conservative Republicans.

After much pressure Queen Garris identified the members of the Victory Committee to be Ashley Woolard, Keith Kidwell, Queen Garris, Greg Dority, Steve Rader, and Paul Varcoe. This committee meets in secret without giving notice to the Executive Committee. Their activities have never been disclosed to the Executive Committee. They have never requested permission in advance from the Executive Committee to spend money. Ashley Woolard is currently a candidate for County Commissioner. It is unethical and a violation of party rules for him to serve on this committee. Keith Kidwell did not step down during his primary election.

Queen Garris’ big lie is that the Conservative Club messed up the Washington City elections. The fact is, the Conservative Club came out early supporting the Tax Cut Five for City Council in what is a nonpartisan election. Queen Garris and her cronies on the Victory Committee decided they had to take on the Conservative Club. Queen Garris and Greg Dority came to a Conservative Club meeting and agreed that the Conservative Club and the Republican Party would work together to support the Tax Cut Five. They did not tell the truth.

Queen Garris and Dority along with the remainder of the Victory Committee then recruited Wiley Woolard, brother to Ashley Woolard, who has never been active in politics, to run for City Council so they could say they had five Republicans. Because Queen Garris and Dority deceived the Conservative Club, they are banned from our meetings. The Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee has never authorized the Republican Party to participate in these nonpartisan elections. The Victory Committee spent an estimated $5,000 running advertisements against the Conservative Club and Joe Davis. Queen Garris and the Victory Committee went to the polls during the election claiming Wiley Woolard was a true Republican and those supported by the Conservative Club were not Republicans. The result was that the votes cast for Wiley Woolard were more than the same number needed to defeat Sheri Clark and Tex Melton. This allowed two Democrats to be elected. Talk about vetting candidates, Wiley Woolard never campaigned. The defeat in the Washington City elections was delivered by the Beaufort County Republican Party.

Queen Garris has more serious Party problems than Joe Davis. She and the Treasurer have not filed amended reports with the State Board of Elections to clear up the complaints about incomplete and unbalanced books. David French, the Treasurer, indicated at the July Executive Committee meeting that he did not know what to do and the State Board of Elections was not helping him. This is pure pandering. If the complaint is about books that are incomplete and do not balance the solution is simple. File amended reports that balance the books and are complete.

My opinion is “Déjà vu all over again”. Queen Garris and French intend to do the “Iranian hustle”. That is drag their feet until March of 2027 when new officers will probably be elected and turn the whole thing over to the new people. The new treasurer can then start a new set of books which are disconnected from the Queen Garris-French books. David French files a final report, closes his tenure as treasurer and hopes the Board of Elections will be happy to be rid of them.

Another Queen Garris lie comes around when she claims that somehow Stan Deatherage, Joe Davis and I are responsible for raising taxes. Davis has been in office eight months. Queen Garris and her Victory Committee support RINOs, Fake Frankie Waters and Randy the RINO Walker, who joined with Democrats Langley and Booth to falsely raise taxes 7.4 percent during the revaluation and have voted to increase the Beaufort County Budget spending every year for the past ten years. Another big lie is to infer that the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee vets candidates. They do not. The Victory Committee supports any candidate who dislikes Stan Deatherage and Hood Richardson. That is their idea of vetting.

Republicans need to be careful to whom they donate money. We recommend donations directly to the candidate or the Beaufort County Good Government Committee. Donations to the Beaufort County Republican Party usually support liberal Republican RINOs.