We're just rolling back in to Haymaker HQ after a long relaxing, enjoyable Independence Day weekend.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2013 @ 1:14 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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You may recall our previous coverage of efforts by Craven County Republicans to censure state House Speaker Thom Tillis. What is behind all of this?
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Arthur Williams, 46, of 1924 Oglesby Road, Morehead City, died Friday, June 21, 2013.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 @ 3:24 pm
By: Announcements
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House Speaker Thom Tillis is under siege. We have been reporting here that we continue to pick up rumors on Jones Street and from Administration operatives that there is a broad and deep resentment growing against Tillis' high-handed method of operating.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 1:31 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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A woman who has a proven record of going nose-to-nose with the Raleigh establishment (and winning) is throwing her hat in the ring for chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party.
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 @ 4:34 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Walter Jones, Jr. has got quite a cult following. The folks who read "Mother Jones" AND The Ron Paul fan club are both swooning over him.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 11:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Registrar's Office at Beaufort County Community College has released the honor roll for the 2012 Fall Semester. Full-time students maintaining a grade point average of 4.0 or better were placed on the all "A"s list.
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 4:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Larry Britt will never get answers from the Beaufort Observer that satisfy his false curiosity. Larry does not see his questioning as false because he is not principled.
Published: Sunday, December 30th, 2012 @ 11:17 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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List of resource links.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I heard through the grapevine that John Hood thinks I don't like him very much. (For the record, all I know of him is what I read in his columns and what I hear him saying on NC Spin.)
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Calling the last 30 days before elections the "silly season" is definitely a huge understatement.
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2012 @ 2:23 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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A faction within the Republican party has attacked me as I seek re election to the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners. Differences of opinion are what politics are about.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 8:12 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The newcomers down at the WDN have made a startling discovery: Not everyone who registers or gets elected as a "Republican" votes the way Republicans are supposed to vote.
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2012 @ 11:32 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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When the GOP majority took over the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011, we were promised an end to pay-to-play. Pay-to-play has typically meant the shakedown of lobbyists and other interested parties for campaign donations in exchange for legislative attention to their concerns.
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2012 @ 10:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. James Arthur Gurganus Jr., age 71, a resident of 7810 Holly Springs Church Road, Williamston, died Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, at home
Published: Thursday, August 16th, 2012 @ 2:48 pm
By: Announcements
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I recently had an eye-opening conversation with an activist who is arguably a mover-and-shaker / household name in Charlotte area Republican politics. This person has been following the drama in the state House District 6 runoff between Mattie Lawson and Arthur Williams.
Published: Sunday, July 29th, 2012 @ 1:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In North Carolina, the politician seeking the nomination of their party, by virtue of the primary, must win 40% of the vote in that primary, irrespective of the number of contestants in that race.
Published: Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 @ 11:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I understand that Rep. Walter Jones has come out to support Arthur Williams in the run-off election for NC House for district 6. I'm sure there is a political reason.
Published: Saturday, July 14th, 2012 @ 1:29 am
By: Diane Rufino
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I shouldn't care really. I have often worked harder for a cause than the cause actually deserved. It is my nature, I suppose, to toil in the vineyards diligently, and know strongly my purpose, which at one time was to do my best to actually help my Republican party to stand for something.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 6:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The run off election from the State primary is now in progress. There are only a hand full of candidates from both the Republican and Democrat tickets.
Published: Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 @ 11:59 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Williams voted FOR Pryor Gibson's bill to help raise gasoline prices by reducing competition. That no doubt pleased the Petroleum Marketers Association who pushed the bill, but it should offend everyone who buys gasoline, whether for business or personal use.
Published: Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm
By: Fern Shubert
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