Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

For anyone who stands with Berger in ANY of his challenges to House conservatives, I have one thing to say - when you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Berger has pushed leftwing policy in Raleigh as hard as Roy Cooper has, and indeed they were often pushing the same leftwing agenda. The only place they got pushback was in the House, which sometimes stopped Berger and sometimes he overcame their opposition. They have gotten better at stopping Berger's nonsense in the House like with Berger's casinos and Berger trying to do a solid for the radical environmentalists by putting our commercial fishermen out of business.
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If Berger takes any scalps among the 6, so far, conservatives in the House he is trying to replace with his yes men, then it will intimidate others in the House from standing up to him. Anyone who sides with Berger is working ABAINST conservatives. Berger is the worst establishment power bully in the state. He already has almost all of the Senate Republicans completely intimidated and now he is trying to push the same poison in the House. That simply must be stopped or conservatives will be totally screwed in Raleigh. Local politics are downright petty compared to the huge impact these Berger challenges can have in Raleigh.

Berger is having a serious primary challenge himself from a conservative and may get taken down, hopefully, but that does not make his challenge to this group of House conservative leaders any less dangerous. Berger has cleared out any meaningful conservative voices in the Senate, and the departure of stalwart conservative Bobby Hanig to run for Congress, they will all be gone. If Berger goes down in the primary, it will be a Berger 2.0 that takes his place, playing the same game with the Democrats and special interests. Any of Berger's lieutenants would be as bad as Berger and we do not need opposition to them in the House to be intimidated.

Incidentally, liberal Berger lap dog Jimmy Dixon has also recruited a Berger-friendly candidate for Hanig's state senate seat to run against conservative retired judge Jerry Tillet in the primary. There may also be a second conservative in that primary which would split the conservative vote and let Berger's poodle win the primary. The Berger machine MUST be stopped. It is as evil as evil as Thom Tillis and has a lot more power.

The most rotten politician one could send to Raleigh would be a Berger Boy.

Commented: Friday, November 21st, 2025 @ 11:32 am By: John Steed

Stan, what they are is propagandists, not journalists, modern practitioners of the dark arts of Josef Goebbels. The BBC has been bent for years, biased against the UK's own Conservative Party. The British people seem to know it, as the most watched news programing in the UK is now GB News, which has a conservative perspective.

IT is good however to see the CEO and news director of the BBC have to resign over this doctoring of the news.

Commented: Sunday, November 16th, 2025 @ 8:31 am By: John Steed

Kidwell is an important conservative leader in the NC House, regardless of what you think of his positions regarding the local party leadership. Replacing him with a non-conservative like Austin Garrison would make no sense at all.

Commented: Thursday, November 13th, 2025 @ 6:42 am By: John Steed

Now it is Virginia's Fraternal Order of Police who have called VA Democrat AG nominee Jones "not fit for office" and demanded he withdraw from the race.
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Commented: Tuesday, October 7th, 2025 @ 12:21 pm By: John Steed

In that regime, it is hard to decide which was more clueless - Biden or Harris. Neither one was on top of things. The other question is, who actually ran things, like deciding what the autopen was used on? It clearly was not either Biden or Harris.

Commented: Friday, September 12th, 2025 @ 9:17 pm By: John Steed

This Michael dude is totally clueless about tax rates after a revaluation. To keep taxes the same, OF COURSE the rate would go down. The state calculates a "revenue neutral" rate that would generate the same amount of taxes. If a local government adopts a rate higher than the revenue neutral rate, it is a tax INCREASE even though the rate is still less than the previous year. To determine if there is a tax increase or not, the point of reference after a revaluation is NOT the previous year's rate but the revenue neutral rate.

The county taxed this year at the revenue netural rate. The city of Washington taxed 28% OVER the revenue neutral rate. That is a 28% tax INCREASE and it is outrageous.

Maybe this lack of knowlege by Michael indicates that there needs to be more voter / taxpayer education on this subject.

Commented: Friday, August 29th, 2025 @ 7:56 am By: John Steed

The spend-aholic and tax-aholic crowd we have running our city currently badly need to be replaced - all of them. Nick Fritz is a prime example of the new blood that we need.

Commented: Wednesday, August 13th, 2025 @ 6:46 am By: John Steed

THis treasonous Democrat congresswoman is an anchor baby born to illegal aliens. She is a poster girl for why we need to end birthright citizenship.
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Commented: Wednesday, August 6th, 2025 @ 9:38 am By: John Steed

The Daily Haymaker has a good take on how bad Whatley is:
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Commented: Friday, July 25th, 2025 @ 11:33 am By: John Steed

Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland (at least for now, as his government seems to be unraveling over illegal immigration) is definitely a globalist, and therefore an elitist. I am not familiar with Mrump. Oh, and when the Tusk government goes, the polls show that nationalists and ultra-nationalists will have a majority and Poland will decisively reject globalism.

Commented: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 @ 8:58 pm By: John Steed

What poppycock. America is NOT the world's welfare state and should not try to be. Did this post get misdirected from the "Daily Worker"? Lee does not seem to grasp that "immigrant" is clearly defined in federal law as only applying to those who apply properly to come to America, are vetted and approved before they arrive. The term does NOT apply to those who arrogantly take the law into their own hands and sneak into the country. The correct definition of those in federal law is "ILLEGAL ALIEN". These lawbreakers need to be rounded up and send home. If we get more immigrants, there is a long waiting list of those honest and honorable applicants who are trying to do it the right way. It is immoral to let the linejumpers in ahead of them. The linejumpers need a quick deportation.

Oh, and "asylum" is mostly a fraud. People claim it when they know they are not entitled to it to get a foot in the door. That fraud needs to be stopped.

Commented: Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 @ 11:22 am By: John Steed

The Senate Majority Leader has the power to do that at any time. In fact, in 2001, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott did fire the then Senate Parliamentarian. The parliamentarian could also have been overruled, which has also happened before. John Thune is spineless.

Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 10:30 am By: John Steed

Illegal alien freeloaders are sucking welfare dry in Europe as well. In Germany, for example, 63% of all welfare paid out now goes to illegal aliens. Sweden is paying illegal aliens over 10,000 dollars to go home since Swedish taxpayers save a heck of a lot more than that on welfare.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 1:18 pm By: John Steed

"Pragmatist"???? NO< Tillis is a liberal, an Undocumented Democrat. He has sold us out on a long list of major issues from gun control to the Green New Deal, to homosexual marriage to deficit spending to illegal immigration to Obamacare Medicaid expansion to allowing men into womens restrooms and lockerrooms, and the list could go on. Recent polls have had his favorability with voters under 30%. Tillis was unelectable and would have hurt the entire GOP ticket in North Carolina. Last year's Republican state convention passed a resolution of censure on Tillis by a landslide for deviating from the Republican platform on a very wide range of issues. Good riddance!

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 7:59 pm By: John Steed

It is an outrage that a far left ideological group like this is getting any of our taxpayer money in the first place. Cut them OFF.

Commented: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 9:09 pm By: John Steed

Any time government takes something that has always been paid for out of tax revenue, as they did with trash pickup and storm water, and suddenly call it a fee, that is nothing but a dishonest shell game so they can lie that they did not raise taxes. We have a very very dishonest city government and it has been that way for too long. They will not play straight with the citizens and taxpayers.

Commented: Friday, June 27th, 2025 @ 10:07 am By: John Steed

Fees are just another word for taxes by the back door. Many things that used to be paid for by taxes in Washington have been shifted to "fees" like trash pick up and storm water drainage. Calling those "fees" when they used to be covered by taxes is just dishonest. It is pulling the wool over citizens eyes. If it looks like a tax, walks like a tax, quacks like a tax, it is a tax no matter what name you try to put on it.

Then there is the overcharging for electricity that is then shifting into the general fund. That is just another tax by the back door

Transparency means not shifting tax supported city activities to "fees" and it means not gouging on electric rates for a backdoor tax. Transparency also means giving meaningful notice of the budget and the taxes involved, which the Sadler regime did NOT do.

Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 11:21 am By: John Steed