Comments by Rino Hunter | Eastern NC Now

Beaufort County has already been a victim of this Democrat infiltration. We have two Democrat plants on our county commission who align with the two out of the closet Democrats to run out county commission. We now have a former Marc Basnight Democrat as our "Republican" State House nominee. We have at least one Democrat plant on our school board, with another one just nominated who has been an active Democrat most of the time she has been in the county but now claims to be a "Republican".

In this year's county commission race, only two of the nominees have long histories as bona fide Republicans, Stan Deatherage and Ashley Woolard. They have different styles, different internal party alliances, and some different priorities, but both are bona fide Republicans. The thrid, John Edwards, is a bit of a question amrk.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By: Rino Hunter

Carolyn Walker, who is the most actively liberal member of the school board is trying to build a liberal power clique around herself. These two ex-teachers will be part of it. Like Walker herself, at least one of them is a longtime Democrat who has switched as a matter of political convenience to Republican on paper to get elected. Walker directly recruited one of them to run and was involved in campaigning for both as well as for another challaneger.

Carolyn Walker wants to be the Queen Bee of the School Board.

Commented: Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 @ 8:10 am By: Rino Hunter

Hooray for Idaho! I well remember the NC debacle when our wimpy legislative leadership caved to pressure from the special interests and Governor Roy Cooper to repeal HB2. It was Phil Berger's first sellout of the GOP base, in what turned out to be a new pattern of selling out. It is so good to see that scumbag out of the legislature. That sellout of the GOP base by repealing HB2 led to Christian conservatives staying home in the next legislative election nad the GOP losing its supermajority. Berger stabbed us in the back on that one and a lot of other issues since.

Commented: Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 @ 10:22 am By: Rino Hunter

A cabal of teachers and other school personnel pushed two retired teachers for the school board in this past primary and pushed both of them through. Teachers worked the polls for their two teachers union candidates. Ate we going let the inmates run the asylum? Taxpayers, parents, and citizens lost both races to the insider clique.

Commented: Saturday, March 28th, 2026 @ 11:21 am By: Rino Hunter

Good that the video now seems to work without the Google sign-in. Everyone should be concerned about special interest dark money buying our legislative seats. They bought some other seats in our primaries away form conservatives in other districts besides Kidwell's. It is good to see both liberals and conservatives concerned about this threat to our elections. That video said it all. This liberal group does not agree on policy with Kidwell, but they value having an honest legislator, even one they disagree with, over a special interest hack like Armst5rong. Tellingly, they identify Armstrong as the real "sellout".

It was Phil Berger who invited the special interests so deeply into our politics with his corrupt pay-for-play tactics. It is good Berger is gone.

Commented: Sunday, March 22nd, 2026 @ 10:36 am By: Rino Hunter

We have to remember that Sen/ Thom Tillis (RINO-NC) is one of the traitors on the SAVE Act. We need to push his protege Michael Whatley to jerk Tillis in line. Tillis' backstabbing NC Republicans on this will blow back on Whatley if Tillis continues to be bullheaded.

Commented: Thursday, March 19th, 2026 @ 3:18 pm By: Rino Hunter

Any judicial appointment involving Biden's autopen should be declared null and void and new judges appointed to replace them. They are mostly political hacks and who know who really appointed them. Biden was in la-la land.

Commented: Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 @ 1:51 pm By: Rino Hunter

Unless you were asleep during the primary, Washingtonian, it was the SPECIAL INTERESTS who decided the primary with their half million dollars of dark money. They bought a legislator who refused to reveal where he stood on issues, other than his allegiance to Big Ag and RoundUp. I hope you like casinos all over the state, because one of the special interests pushing the RoundUp RINO were the casino interests. I hope you don't like fresh North Carolina shrimp, because one of the main dark money groups pushing Armstrong has very close ties to those who want to put our NC shrimp industry out of business. I also hope you don't like gun rights because the NRA rated Armstrong an "F" on gun issues.

This guy will probably make former RINO legislator Zeno Edwards look like a conservative.

Commented: Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 @ 3:14 pm By: Rino Hunter

I agree that Sociat(ist) Services has way too much power and it needs to be reined in, but the best way to do that may be at the state level.

Commented: Sunday, March 15th, 2026 @ 3:12 pm By: Rino Hunter

Speaking of opportunists, one of the "retired school teacher" candidates backed by the Walkers was an active Democrat until a couple of years ago. Another total phony. The Walkers who have been working to make the school board more liberal and keep the county commission effectively controlled by the Democrats, need to be top targets for removal by conservative voters in 2028 when both are up for election again. Let them go do their social climbing somewhere else. They are opportunists and infiltrators. They spent most of their lives as Democrats, and at their core, still are Democrats.

Commented: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 9:57 pm By: Rino Hunter

Unfortunately, Stan, so much of the Senate is now composed of Berger puppets that one of his lieutenants is likely to become the New Berger and try to continue pay for play as usual. The sorest of the lot is Senator Brent Jackson. Then there is House ultra-RINO Jimmy Dixon who has made himself extremely useful to Berger and to the special interests in this election cycle, including doing a lot of their recruiting.

I wish cleaning up state government was as easy as cutting off th3e head of the biggest snake in the nest.

Commented: Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 @ 1:14 pm By: Rino Hunter

The only potential corruption I see, Washingtonian, among the two House candidates is Armstrong's ties to Monsanto and its cancer-causing product RoundUp. Defending RoundUp and Monsanto was about the only real issue commitment Armstrong made in the campaign. Why is that corrupt? Because Armstrong's seed business has very deep business ties to Monsanto. He grows genetically modified seeds designed to be used with RoundUp.

If Armstrong starts actually pushing Monsanto's agenda in Raleigh, there will be formal ethics complaints waiting for him. But why else did he even run?

And that half million spent against Kidwell by that dark money special interest PAC raises questions, too. How much of that came from Monsanto?

Armstrong should be dubbed the "RoundUp RINO".

Commented: Monday, March 9th, 2026 @ 11:42 am By: Rino Hunter

The behavior of the Walkers, Carolyn and Randy is shocking but not surprising. They may call themselves Republicans but they are still what they were most of their lives - functional Democrats. You can see it in how both of them govern. They are Undocumented Democrats. Carolyn Walker is trying to build herself a little power clique of liberals on the School Board. Randy votes with the Democrats on the county commission.

Even with their brand of deceptive politics, though, smearing conservative colleagues from other districts to voters, is beneath what I would have expected even from the Walkers.

Hickman and Rader have both been Republican leaders, both of them former county GOP chairmen and congressional district GOP chairmen, with deep roots in the GOP. The Walkers on the other hand are latecoming opportunists.

One remembers the grifting that Randy Walker did in his first GOP commissioner campaign (he had already tried and failed as a Democrat). He begged Hood Richardson to buy him signs, which Richardson came up with the money to do. Then he hired Ashley Woolard to run his internet ad campaign, and ended up stiffing Woolard not only for Woolard's own fee but also for the money Woolard advanced to buy the ads. That reflects the true character of the Walkers. They are not of character to be attacking others.

Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 9:55 pm By: Rino Hunter

Whatley is just another Tillis. I am afraid his money will win him the primary, although I hope Don Brown does. If it is Whatley, the only thing that will get my vote for him in November would be his getting Tillis to support the SAVE Act. Otherwise I will cast a protest vote for a third party or just leave that office blank on my ballot.

Commented: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 @ 7:11 am By: Rino Hunter

Now why would anyone suspect Armstrong of being anti-gun? Maybe because the guy who recruited him to run, Rep. Jimmy Dixon was the anti-gun holdout who has been preventing a veto override over Josh Stein so we could pass concealed carry. Or maybe it is his endorsement, which he constantly parade,s by anti-gun liberal Raleigh RINO Steve Troxler.

Commented: Sunday, March 1st, 2026 @ 5:41 pm By: Rino Hunter

The word was out around the state at filing time that Phil Berger had promised that $4 million would be spent to take down conservatives in the House, including Kidwell. Everyone assumed at the time that would mean money from Berger's own network of fake "conservative" PACs which have always functioned through a blizzard of direct mail postcards. When no postcards from the Berger network showed up, the assumption was that he needed the money in his own primary. Now, it is clear that Berger farmed the operation out to his buddies in the casino industry, and what we are seeing now around the state and in our district is what Berger pledged these establishment hack challengers.

Then there is that dark money PAC that has been mailing all the postcards for Armstrong. Who knows which special interests have been funding that.

NEVER ARMSTRONG. NEVEr troxleR. never beRGEr

Commented: Thursday, February 26th, 2026 @ 10:03 am By: Rino Hunter

"Bath parent" sure seems to be pushing those warmed over longtime Democrats now trying to pass themselves off as "Republicans", Darren Armstrong and Monica Davis. Davis moved to Washington over 30 years ago and has been a Democrat actively voting in Democrat primaries until recently. The first time she voted in a Republican primary was in 2024. Darren Armstrong was a longtime Democrat in Hyde County, and a major financial contributor in several campaigns to liberal Democrat state senator Marc Basnight.

As I recall someone here had previously identified "Bath parent" as being actually a teacher at Eastern Elementary school. One of the candidates she is pushing also happens to have once taught there.

As to writing, what I would like to see is candidates being up front with the voters in answering candidate questionares from groups asking them where they stand on issues. Sneaky candidates do not answer those, and try to keep voters in the dark. Take the iVoter Guide. Darren Armstrong and Monica Davis played hooky on that one and refused to level with the voters on their positions on issues. Keith Kidwell and Steven Rader were upfront with voters and spelled out where they stood.

I also wonder if "Bath parent" might be smoking something other than a tobacco product when she claims Rader does not support Kidwell. I sometimes drive by Rader's house down in the historic district when I go to the waterfront and there has been a Kidwell sign in front of it for months. It was still there a few days ago and I presume it still is.

Fake "Republicans" are NOT what we need in public office. What we do need is candidates who tell us what their positions on issues are, not try to hide them as Armstrong and Davis have done.

Commented: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 @ 1:57 pm By: Rino Hunter