Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

School Board Member Shreve has been pilloried in an extemporaneous manner here, so I will not pile on.

I will, however, boldly state that Beaufort County Commissioners' Center-Left /Left Coalition, in the majority on the county's board, DID vote to close Snowden School.

All of these local bad actors were in this together.

Commented: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 4:36 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: Excellent analysis on the machinations of the terrible decision making processes, and easily recognizable poor management of the Beaufort County Schools.

Having said that, and as I recognize that one cannot mention everything within the real confines of this sorry event, top to bottom, let me remind ever reader here of two things:

1. Commissioners Richardson and Deatherage voted against every bad decision made by the inept Beaufort County School Board, and we voted against every fool pledged move made, in the majority, by the Beaufort County Commissioners' Center-Left /Left Coalition.

2. Since early February, 2025, I have repeatedly asked for a copy of the phantom title search (in finite detail) that was alleged to be eventually completed (like closing the barn door after the prized mare had "runnoft") for the Four Acre Debacle, and I have received nothing from either governing board.

Until I receive that copy of that phantom title search (in finite detail) that was alleged completed for the Four Acre Debacle that I have requested so many months past, I will NOT VOTE for in favor of any request by the Beaufort County School Board.

As a 7 term county commissioner of some ability and much knowledge, and as the Taxing Authority of all Beaufort County's tax paying citizens, I will not support abject incompetence by wasting my constituents' vote toward such, as is signified by this politicized measure of informational denial to this elected representative of my many wise and Good constituents that obviously agree with how I have governed in a wise and honest manner all these may decades.

There is a statement that "truth dies in darkness." I would rather profess that truth lives in sunlight.

Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 1:02 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Just one night ago on July 4th after the waterfront fireworks display, I spoke to a Washington resident who was concerned about the amount money appropriated to the military in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, which is a massive budget reconciliation act.

His idea was to take 1/2 of the military, when not needed when on a war footing, was train these military men to develop vocational skills to become a workforce of expandable utility in various communities.

While this idea, on its face, may able as noble hypothetical initiative, the thought, moreover, demonstrates a profound lack of understanding why the United States has the standing military that it possesses at its constant disposal, when properly led by a smart and wise Commander-in-Chief.

Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 9:38 am By: Stan Deatherage

Now that the 'bill is done' (referencing Senate Majority Leader John Thune's reason for not immediately firing the partisan hack), the Democratic Socialist partisan Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, should be summarily fired for just cause due to such a partisan indiscretion as she knowingly made.

Commented: Saturday, July 5th, 2025 @ 8:02 pm By: Stan Deatherage

It is a curiosity and large hubris of character regarding why Liberal pundits will often summarize and thus comment on Republican politics, which is a huge conundrum for people like myself as a Republican insider, people who know immeasurably more than these Liberal ever could, and even I would not venture to comment on such a puzzlement, not at this point in time, not on this issue which is way too complex for most insiders to understand, let alone a Liberal.

Commented: Saturday, July 5th, 2025 @ 7:04 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Zohran Mamdani is a man of great honesty. He is telling all, or has told everyone already who told everyone who would listen, exactly who he is, and what to expect from him once elected.

Commented: Saturday, July 5th, 2025 @ 4:54 am By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: The only thing a voting system can partially fix is to set a better environment to restrict corruption.

Corruption from the special interest camps; corruption from sects of most unknowledgeable voters; corruption in bureaucrats, who do not know their place, and summarily manhandle weak politicians. With better elected politicians, probably smarter in scope, they could dispense of most of these forms of corruption; the easiest of which is to fire the bureaucrats, for such cause as this, who do not know their place in a governing hierarchy.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 7:58 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Smart, complex men, like our Founders, are often wise to reconcile simple solutions.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 5:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Befuddled: Nothing politically pisses me off more than stupid politicians.

What well meaning, serious politicians do as a service to their constituents is ... well, it ain't "rocket science."

However, it does appear to be so for the politicians you speak of, those who are intellectually ill equipped to do a simple job that they did sign up for, and were elected to perform.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 4:59 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thank-you for these good words, my dearest friend, Diane Rufino.

May your good spirit watch over us all; the Good People of the Republic you did so dearly love.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

It is high time that all of the justices smarten up, and that includes a few of the so-called "conservative justices."

These are uncertain times in our Republic, as so many of public are totally ignorant of what constitutes truth, or inspired consistently by evil. Either way, we, who now real truth, must stand fixed and solid.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:20 am By: Stan Deatherage

The public education system here in Beaufort County has great potential, and then I am reminded, first hand, just how messed up it is, as I watch, know intimately, how greatly their leadership diligently strives to grasp ahold of that single shiny thread from that dark, distant gordian knot, where a masked mediocrity might be attained, and closely held; until even that common place venture of something slightly better than nothing ... Just slips away.

Commented: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 7:34 am By: Stan Deatherage

Did these partisan Democratic Socialist judges not learn anything from the latest Supreme Court ruling nullifying their nationwide injunctions? This is overtly embarrassing for these Leftist fools in black robes.

Commented: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 @ 10:38 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Lara is very smart and very poised, and she greatly admires her father-in-law. That would be a bunch of political finery to unpack, and while the Republicans have plenty of talent at this point, Lara would would be a welcome addition.

Commented: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 @ 2:56 pm By: Stan Deatherage

And this is the government that America's first two Non Patriot Presidents Obama and Biden propped up for so many years, allowing these state sponsored terrorists the ability to kill thousands of American soldiers and diplomats, while plotting to destroy our entire nation by the designs of their nuclear ambitions, now "obliterated."

Commented: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 @ 10:54 am By: Stan Deatherage

I am truly enjoying this smart, cool, warrior Secretary of Defense.

Commented: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 @ 6:47 pm By: Stan Deatherage

John Steed: It could be an option for the soon-to-be-former Eastern Elementary as well.

Let us face it People: You paid for these Schools! You deserve the very best education these schools can provide!

John: This is an issue completely up to the county commissioners ... To provide for the People.

Commented: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 @ 3:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage