Comments by Rino Hunter | Eastern NC Now

Beaufort County is going to be in a mess on curriculum in our public schools as a result of two members of the teachers union beating two conservatives in primaries this year. One, in the Bath district has already taken office and shown herself to be a liberal. the other one has been a Democrat most of the time she has lived in Beaufort County and is likely to be even worse. The two liberal kingpins of the School Board, Carolyn Walker and T.W. Allen are both up for election in 2028 and both need to be challenged by conservatives in order to restore a meaningful conservative presence on the school board.

Commented: Wednesday, August 19th, 2026 @ 9:45 pm By: Rino Hunter

What is most troubling is that Democrats even heavily resist removing the illegal aliens who commit serious crimes in our country. That is the whole goal of their "sanctuary" policies to protect illegal aliens who commit crimes from being deported. They would rather that these illegal alien criminals stay here to commit more crimes against Americans.

One very galling attempt to do that came from Tampon Tim Walz, when he tried to pardon an illegal alien convicted of raping a child to keep him from being deported. It didn't work but Walz bent over backwards to try to keep a convicted child rapist in our country. This is the type of insanity that pervades today's Democrat Party.

Commented: Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 @ 8:38 am By: Rino Hunter

Republican voters should be demanding the Whatley commit to voting to dump Thune as senate leader.

Commented: Monday, August 10th, 2026 @ 10:28 am By: Rino Hunter

This is a huge mess. I have also heard that Roberson found some of the skeletons in the previous group's closet, and that set off a panic to get rid of him quickly so that could be swept back under the rug. I wonder if those items stemmed from the previous manager or from the Sadler apparatus or a combination of both. Tyree's anti-Roberson posturing would suggest that the Sadler bunch was at least partly responsible. What was really strange was how Perrault also jumped on that bandwagon.

Maybe Washington needs to make a clean sweep and get a totally new set of city elected officials next election. For the next year and a half, Tyree seems to be running the show, and will probably select the new interim and manager. He took the lead in pushing Rorie out.

Commented: Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 @ 4:58 pm By: Rino Hunter

Don't think this nonsense will not come to NC. Our state board of education is stacked with "woke" leftists appointed by liberal Democrat governor and our elected Democrat Superintendent of Public Instruction has a radical leftwing background. The two Republicans on the state school board made a big fight over their very woke social studies state curriculum, but the Democrat leftist majority rammed it through anyway. That Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mo Green, not long ago ran a radical left foundation that funded lots of radical left causes in North Carolina, which was described in an article as the "Roots of Radicalism." One of the things he funded was a group that put transgender / homosexual books in school libraries.

Help may be on the way. The legislature is working on setting up a referendum in November to make the state school board elected by the people instead of appointed by the very liberal governor.

Commented: Sunday, August 2nd, 2026 @ 2:51 pm By: Rino Hunter

Wow, JV! You think Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway are threats to the US but Red China is not? China is a totalitarian communist state. The others are all multi-party democracies. China has a massive military force and nuclear weapons, including strategic rocket forces. The three countries have modest military forces, far below those of the US and no nuclear weapons. China has the world's second largest economy and closing in on the size of the US economy, far far more than those three countries you consider threats. Big tech? China is much more heavily into that than any of the other counties you mention. Indeed they are the country we are currently in a close competition with on AI China has massive cyberwarfare capabilities, but none of those three do. Banking? You might want to compare the total amount of funds held in Chinese banks compared with the others. The only one of those that is a big banking center in Switzerland, and after the collapse of Credit Suisse, one of its two longtime leading banks, it is no longer what it once was. You mighjt also want to compare gold holdings of the three countries, and central bank gold purchases in the last two to three years.

Oh, ande Hamas is a subsidiary of Iran, if you haven't figured that out yet.

Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 7:23 pm By: Rino Hunter

JV, I don't know what you are smoking if you think Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are "far right". Both of them are notorious sell-out RINOs. McConnell has been a useful idiot for many Democrat presidents, and it is thanks to him that Republicans failed to stop Obamacare that is destroying our health care system. It is why conservative groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Club for Growth dropped a lot of money into trying to beat McConnell in his last primary. Graham may have mellowed in recent years, but was one of the most notorious RINOs in the senate. He pushed amnesty for illegal aliens for years, was part of the pro-amnesty senate Gang of 8, and even acquired the nickname "Grahamnesty". "Light in the Loafers" Lindsay repeatedly had censure motions against him passed by conservatives in the South Carolina Republican Party due to his lefty voting record.

If you think Epstein is an "issue" for the GOP, then you must be under the spell of MSM propaganda media. Polls show most Americans have figured out their bias. Under the Democrats, there was a TOTAL coverup of everything Epstein.

So you hate Isreal? Does that mean you are a Hamas fan?

Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 9:44 am By: Rino Hunter

Cheeseman was just too well known for using his office to play politics. We are fortunate that he is gone.

Commented: Sunday, July 26th, 2026 @ 3:43 pm By: Rino Hunter

Big corporations, Befuddled???? Protecting a big corporation was what Darrin Armstrong's entire campaign was about. A big out-of-state corporation that makes Round Up. He wanted to protect them from "we the people" who were injured by that big corporation's product. Armstrong and his allies put out postcard after postcard accusing Kidwell of being a "sell out" for supporting the rights of "we the people" to compensation for injuries from that big corporation's product.

And it gets worse. Darrin Armstrong's agriculture business has major contracts with the very same out of state big corporation that makes Round Up. Can you spell C-O-N-F-L-I-C-T O-F I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T?

You also need to look at where the big money from the big corporations was in that race. They put hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising to buy the seat for Armstrong. Look at Kidwell's contributor list. There is not big corporation money there, only money from "we the people." And unlike Armstrong, Kidwell did not have a big outside campaign backing him. His only outside spending came from the gun rights organization Grassroots North Carolina, and that was only one mailing.

We are struck with our "one trick pony" and Big Ag puppet, the Round-Up RINO for two years. But we have to do better next time. We need to find a conservative to run. It probably won't be Kidwell, but we really do need to find a solid REAL conservative to run for our seat. The Round-Up RINO got an "F" from the NRA so we need to send him packing as qucikly as possible.

Are you for gun control, Befuddled?

Commented: Friday, July 24th, 2026 @ 9:18 am By: Rino Hunter

Let's face it, Republicans have a huge problem in the legislature with "leadership" that is in the hip pocket of special interests and addicted to "pay-to-play". While the Democrats were at least as bad in this regard when they were in control, we did not expect our own party to fall into this trap. But lousy leaders like Thom Tillis, Tim Moore, and Phil Berger picked up the Democrat playbook on pandering to the special interests, doing it to cement their own power. Now that Berger has rightfully been kicked to the curb, maybe things will get better in the Senate, but if one of Berger's cronies succeeds him, there will probably be no changes, regrettably. In the House, the new leadership seems to be at least somewhat of an improvement so far, but we will see how that develops. Moore, at first, had seemed to be an improvement over Tillis, too.

Commented: Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 @ 7:53 am By: Rino Hunter

It sure sounds like you had some personal beef with Kidwell, befuddled, or maybe you are just a liberal. You probably are not one of those anti-gun RINOs from Raleigh like that worthless liberal Troxler who recruited Armstrong, but I guess you could be one of those local tax-and-spend RINOs who were so active in his campaign like Frankie Waters or Randy Walker or one of their allies.

Kidwell ranked as the most conservative member of the legislature on all of the legislative scorecards of conservative organizations. He was endorsed by the NRA, Grassroots North Carolina, and the Conservative Coalition of North Carolina.

Armstrong is a one trick money whose campaign showed he cared about nothing but Big Ag issues. He received an "F" rating from the NRA on gun rights issues. He is a warmed over Marc Basnight Democrat now masqeerading as a "Republican".

That was a very clear cut race between a staunch conservative and an establishment hack and the hack narrowly won due to hundreds of thousands of dollars of special interest money. Many of us really do not like having our incoming legislator bought and paid for by the special interests, but that ias what we are stuck with for two years.

In voting we need to look at candidate records on issues, not personal chips on ones shoulder. Take this very issue. Kidwell was rock solid on it and he stood up for us. It does not have any connection to Big Ag, so it is unlikely that Armstrong would give it any attention at all. The one trick pony does not care.

Commented: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026 @ 2:38 pm By: Rino Hunter

Listening to that video of what the Biden DOE did with out tax money makes my blood boil. Senator Kennedy does a great job of exposing it. The DOE budget before Biden was about $60 Billion, which Biden almost tripled to $160 Billion, then handed out well over half of it as a lame duck administration in 76 days, with often no plan provided by recipients or any financials showing their solvency. It was a massive political slush fund. Yes. people need to go to prison for this.

Commented: Sunday, July 19th, 2026 @ 3:34 pm By: Rino Hunter

These hypocritical fake news outlets pushed the Russia hoax which had zero real evidence to support it for all they were worth, because it helped the party they propagandize for, the Democrats, but when there is solid evidence of Chinese interference in the very same election to help their buddies, the Democrats, they try to cover it up. The fake news media are nothing but bleating shills for the Democrat Party.

Normally, when a president gives a national speech, the media broadcasts it and then gives the other party a representative to give a rebuttal. That is the fair, honest and even handed way an objective media handles it. This time dishonest and biased news outlets ABC, NBC, and CNN censored the actual Presidential speech, and then had its own staff give a Democrat rebuttal to a speech that their viewers were not even shown. Americans should be truly ashamed of the political manipulation that some of our media outlets engage in. Only CBS and Fox were honest and fair with the American people.

Commented: Saturday, July 18th, 2026 @ 4:12 pm By: Rino Hunter

Many would argue that Mitch McConnell has been brain dead for quite some time. He has been little but a puppet of the special interests, the Democrats, and even the Red Chinese. There is something being covered up in this latest incident but it is hard to tell what. A recent written statement, allegedly from McConnell said he was hospitalized for "a fall" but that contradicts the report of the EMTs who picked him up.

I hope that the true results of those toxicology tests on Graham's body are made public and with Kash Patel involved, I think they will be. People who are inconvenient to Putin in Russia have in the past year of two had an uncanny habit of falling out of windows in tall buildings. Some call it the Moscow Skydiving Club. But one was ruled to have committed suicide by shooting himself three times in the head. Outside of Russia, people who were inconvenient to Putin have more likely succumbed to various types of poison. One hopes that is not the case with Graham, who was certainly a person inconvenient to Putin.

It is concerning that the media is harping on preliminary results when the medical examiner himself says final results are "pending" waiting for the toxicology tests. We know that it was cardiac arrest, and what part of the heart was involved tells us little. The toxicology tests will hopefully tell us whether that was triggered by natural causes or something else.

Commented: Monday, July 13th, 2026 @ 8:08 am By: Rino Hunter

Any sane Democrats left in that party should run, not walk, away from this extreme left circus.

Commented: Friday, July 3rd, 2026 @ 9:15 pm By: Rino Hunter

Donald Trump and James Carville do not agree on much, but they both rate the new far left Democrats as "Communists". That is telling.

Commented: Saturday, June 27th, 2026 @ 10:58 am By: Rino Hunter

Good point, CG. I agree, but there IS a slight difference. A RINO like, say, Randy Walker, will tell you he is a "conservative" and then vote consistently as a liberal. For a Democrat, like Spanberger, they claim to be a "moderate" and then govern like a far left socialist. It is the same concept but with somewhat different starting and ending points. Politicians always lie to voters about being more conservative than they really are, not the other way round.

Commented: Thursday, June 25th, 2026 @ 8:05 am By: Rino Hunter