Comments by Steven P. Rader | Eastern NC Now

The War on History is as integral a part of the Woke revolution as it was Mao's Cultural Rebolution. In America, they started with Confederate leaders, then moved on to famous explorers and American founding fathers. They continued from Confederate leaders to Union figures of the War Between the States. Recently, Democrats in Congress filed a bill to remove the Lincoln statute in Lincoln Park in Washington, DC that celebrates the freeing of the slaves and was actually paid for by freed slaves. That is exactly what Mao did with Chinese history.

Commented: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 @ 9:46 am By: Steven P. Rader

This is one of many issues that Tillis has let us down on. That is why the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee is one of over 30 which have so far passed resolutions of censure against Tillis, and why the 3rd District Republican Executive Committee is almost certain to do so Saturday. Party activists are VERY unhappy with Tillis and his propensities to act like a Democrat on a wide range of issues.

Commented: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 9:45 am By: Steven P. Rader

There is a very good speech that went viral on the internet showing how many black folks do not appreciate the "woke" manipulations by the white left. It was given on the floor of the UK's House of Commons by Kemi Baddenoch, a native of Nigeria and serving as a Conservative member of parliament and Minister of Equalities in Boris Johnson's cabinet. It can be viewed at this link: www.facebook.com (make sure to unmute your speaker) The speech was called the "speech of the year" on the grassroots party activist site Conservative Home.

Commented: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 12:12 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Of Course, Dr. Martin Luther King was not "woke". He would have stood against that nonsense if he were alive today. Remember his "I have a Dream" speech? He said "I have a dream that one day my daughter will be judged by the content of her character, not the color of her skin." That is directly opposite the woke ideology. In fact, his neice has spoken against the CRT / "woke" agenda, saying the only race that matters is the human race.

This woke / CRT agenda is a problem from the left in many countries. A great speech in opposition to it was given on the floor of the UK House of Commons by Kemi Badenoch, an immigrant from Nigeria serving as a Conservative member of Parliament and Minister of Equalities in the Boris Johnson government. The speech went viral and it can be watched and listened to here: www.facebook.com

Commented: Friday, January 20th, 2023 @ 8:22 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Municipal electric systems like Washington, Belhaven, and Greenville are also impacted by what Duke Energy does, as our city power utilities buy their power wholesale from Duke. For years it was from CP&L which changed its name to Progress Energy, but then that was bought by Duke. We are all vulmerable to Duke Energy's green schemes. One thing that would help a lot from consumers standpoint would be to end Duke's monopoly position in North Carolina.

Commented: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 1:37 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Campbell does not tell the full story of that "power sharing" in 2003. The Republican House caucus chose Rep. Leo Daughtry (R-Johnson) as its leader in a 50/50 power share with the Democrats. However, obsessed with power and ego, Rep. Richard Morgan (R-Moore) and a few of his buddies sought a seperate deal with the Democrats that would give Morgan a title and a small taste of power to his followers but leave the Democrats really in control. Becoming aware of this, Daughtry withdrew his name and the caucus selected another choise, a legislator who Morgan had no beefs with. Morgan went ahead with his sellout of the GOP caucus anyway, in spite of the new caucus choice.

Two years later, many of Morgan's allies were thrown out in primaries for party disloyalty, and two years after that most of the remainer including Morgan himself bit the dust in primaries.

Richard Morgan is still remembered as North Carolina's version of Benedict Arnold.

As to Decker's swith, there was more involved that the Democrats' corrupt IHOP payoff. Decker had visions of being Speaker Pro Tem, but the GOP caucus selected someone else, and he was in a snit about that, making him receptive to the Democrats' cash.

The Morgan shananigans is all too similar with what we have been seeing for years on the Beaufort County Commission, where voters keep giving us a Republican majority on paper, but we never seem to be able to seat a Republican majoroity county commission.

Commented: Thursday, January 12th, 2023 @ 4:34 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The Beer Party is polling just on the cusp of winning seats in the Austrian parliament, which would be the first there for a satirical political party. There was a Beer Party which won seats in the parliament of one of the Baltic states (Lativa, if memory serves) shortly after the fall of communism. Australia has its Sex Party that came within an eyelash of winning a federal Senate seat a few elections back under its preferential voting system. More mundane, even if they were persistant, were Canada's Rhinocerous Party, which won enough votes it qualified for free TV air time, and the UK's Monster Raving Loony Party led for many years by rocker Screaming Lord Such.

Commented: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 9:55 am By: Steven P. Rader

There is an old saying in politics that "ya dance with who brung ya" but there are sometimes a few ego-centered politicians who just don't get it. With all the reforms so badly needed in education, it is sad that the Democrats have subverted this pair of opportunists on the Craven BOE. We even had this fiasco happen once in the NC House with the Richard Morgan rebellion where the voters gave us a 61-59 majority but Richard Morgan and a few allies handed power back to the Democrats. OF course, they paid for that as all but one of them got taken out in the next two rounds of primaries.

Commented: Sunday, January 1st, 2023 @ 9:07 am By: Steven P. Rader

Many school boards elected a solid conservative majority this year, and many of those hit the ground running with new policies and firing some of the bureaucracy. In Beaufort County, we elected three out of nine on the conservative slate. Five of the seats, a majority, were not on the ballot this year. There are four more Republicans on the board, so hopefully they can find two more stand up conservative among those four. I can see the need to feel them out so that they can put together the votes to move things forward. However, waiting too long may end up making some of those votes harder to get. A wise move would be to go for some of the low hanging fruit soon.

Commented: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 7:26 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Great video from Gun Owners of America to highlight the anti-gun provisions of that awful omnibus big spending bill. Gun Owners of America (GOA) is the most trustworthy gun rights organization out there, much more reliable than the NRA. Every Republican who voted for the omnibus or otherwise helped pass it needs to be ashamed of themselves.

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 2:19 pm By: Steven P. Rader

This article obviiously was written by a very left wing source. One very glaring example of that is its calling the far left pressure group "Common Cause" an "anti-gerrymandering group" which is downright laughable. Some I know on the right call it "Communist Cause", as its ideology is not too different than Antifa, just better behaved.

Photo voter ID is international best practice in ballot security, used nationally in elections in all developed countries of the world except the US, and used by a majoriy of US states. It has been approved by the US Supreme Court.

The only racism in this process is the racism by the partisan Democrat members of the NC Supreme Court accusing black voters of not having ID's. That is just nonsense. The only voters this law "discriminates" against are the dead voters, the fictitious voters, and the illegal alien voters, none of whom should be voting in the first place.

Commented: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 6:17 pm By: Steven P. Rader

This has been going on for more than just the last few years. The Democrats have been poaching commissioners who ran as Republicans as long as the current election system has existed.

Even when Republicans were a minority on the county commission this was a problem. Of the first two sets of GOP commissioners, two of the four, Gene Hodges and Mickey Cochtan, not only got seduced into voting with the Democrats but to actually changing parties to Democrat while serving terms elected as Republicans. Neither succeeded in getting reelected after switching parties, however.

When we first elected a Republican majority, we got word that a group of Democrat party leaders were exploring whether they could peel off one of the Republicans to put their party back in control. Our two most senior GOP commissioners neither wanted the other to be chairman, so a former GOP legislator and I put together a caucus of the four Republican commissioners and commissoners-elect where they hashed out an agreement on one of the newly elected GOP commissioners being the chairman, and one of the senior GOP commissioners being vice chairmam. That first year of the GOP majority was the only time that our Republicans have been able to work together.

When a vacancy as county manager came up a year later, the Democrats on the commission used that to divide the Republican members, and they have been playing divide and conquer ever since. It is time real Republicans put a stop to that nonsense.

Commented: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 3:26 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Here is how you can help replace Mitch McConnell as a result of his role in our 2022 loss.

We need our new senator, Ted Budd, to help end the reign of Mitch McConnell, whose actions and lack of actions, both legislatively and politically, have failed us and were a big part of why we did not win control of the Senate. The Senate GOP caucus is meeting in the next few days to consider leadership and there will be an effort to put McConnell back in. Please call Budd's congressional office at 202-225-4531 and urge him to vote to replace McConnell.

It is probably a waste of time, but you can call Tillis' office, too.

Commented: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 1:43 pm By: Steven P. Rader

It doesn't look like the fish fry drummed up many votes. Saturday was the lightest day of voting during the four days that early voting was open in Belhaven, with 121 voters, compared to 193 on Wednesday, 138 on Thursday, and 159 on Friday.

I have seen the same tactic when I worked with pro-western political parties in Moldova. The Communists would take around goodie bags to older voters to try to create a sense of obligation that they owed them their vote in return. This is not a southern thing or an American thing but a corrupt political practice employed in too many countries.

I recall seeing it directly while I was an International Election Observer in a Moldovan parliamentary election. Around lunch time my observation team pulled into a polling station in the city of Comrat, capital of the Gaugauzia automonmous region. Soon after we arrived several older voters came in carrying white plastic bags with a red hammer and sickle printed on them, obviously filled with things like canned goods. A German international observation team that was also present questioned the first woman who came in with the bag, and she said she had just come from church (Moldova votes on Sunday) and the priest had told them there were some presents for them at the front of the church and they should go and vote (in Moldova the Russian Orthodox Church supported the Communists while the Romanian Orthodox Church was supporiing the Christian Democrats at first but then switched to the Liberal Party). The German team made notes for their report, but since my organization had trained the poll observers of the pro-western parties, I spoke with them and they made a formal complaint to the election officials. The election officials then told the voters with the bags that they could not enter the polling station with them, could not leave them outside, and could not stand around with them outside. They had to leave with them. This was largely due to the fact that election law there did not allow party symbols in or around the polling station on election day. Maybe some of them came back after taking the bags home, but probably not all of them. That was unlikely to have been the only Russian Orthodox Church where that happened.

I also remember the Moldovan Democratic Party fighting fire with fire in some local elections in northern raions of Moldova. The Communists made a practice of giving goodie bags to older voters to create an obligation to vote for them, so the Democrats made up their own goodie bags and took them to the same profile of voter. On election day, there was a huge spike in spoiled ballots because a lot of those voters then felt obligated to both parties and thus voted for both, spoliing the ballot so that it counted for nobody. That led the Democrats to pick up a fair number of seats from the Communists.

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 7:39 pm By: Steven P. Rader

We do have an overspending problem in Beaufort County government, and you have identified the source of it, but this article leaves a false impression that liberal Democrat Corey Rogerson has significant support among the Republican leadership and that is just not true.

One executive committee member, who is widely believed to have been offered a job, did publicly endorse Rogerson. Chairwoman Garris demanded his resignation and he resigned. Three others including two county commissioners and the party 1st vice chairman "liked" the Facebook post endorsing Rogerson, which creates grave doubt about their support of the Republican Party. One of them attended a Rogerson fundraiser, which creates more doubt (if he gave money, that would resolve ALL doubt. Someone should check the campaign finance reports). All of that may need to be sorted in the future.

That being said, however, this does NOT constitute a significant part of the GOP leadership. Only one of the five party officers is tainted, and two of the approximately 30 at large members of the executive committee. Chairwoman Garris and 2nd vice chairman Patricia Garrison, for example, have been working very hard for Scott Hammonds. And the county party has helped facilitate a coming mailing raising questions about Rogerson. The Beaufort County Republican Party is doing all it can to elect our conservative sheriff candidate. We may have a handful obsessed with sour grapes from their candidate's primary loss, but they are not significant.

Scott Hammonds is far and away the conservative choice and the qualified choice for sheriff.

Commented: Monday, October 24th, 2022 @ 8:30 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The only way to find out if these things are indeed out there in our schools is to elect the conservative pro-parent slate of school board candidates - Gary Carlton, Charles Hickman, and Donald Shreve. Too many of our current school board members are little more than rubber stamps for the school bureaucracy.

Commented: Friday, October 14th, 2022 @ 7:46 pm By: Steven P. Rader

I just sent Kelly Tshibaka a hundred dollars for her campaign. I urge all local conservatives to do likewise. She is ahead in the polls and can beat Murkowski.
www.kellyforalaska.com

Commented: Monday, October 10th, 2022 @ 6:19 pm By: Steven P. Rader