Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern North Carolina Now

So Cliff Williams wants to take the lemons given him and Aurora by a rotten school board and make lemonaide out of them by opening a charter school. GOOD FOR HIM. I hope he succeeds in that effort. Beaufort County Schools would then be the loser in their plot against Aurora, because all that state education money would flow to the charter school instead of Beaufort County Schools.

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 10:09 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Cheeseman is building his Washington mega-school with excess capacity. One wonders what his game plan is, and Bath elementary may well be on his target list. I wish we had fewer useful idiots on our school board. Blindly following the bureaucracy makes a really poor excuse for an elected official.

Commented: Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 @ 6:05 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Befuddled, you have a very good point. That boondoggle over the land ownership clearly illustrates the poor management we have in our county schools, and that poor management was just rewarded, from what I'm told, by a big raise and an extension of his contract. I also wonder where the School Board attorney was in all this. Since he he way off in Durham, I suspect they didn't even bother to bring him in on it. Was Cheeseman playing both attorney and real estate appraiser in this farce, neither of which he is qualified or licensed for?

Our school system reminds me of that scene toward the end of the Wizard of Oz, only this time when the dog Toto rips away the curtain, it is Cheeseman in the booth operating the controls of the great and powerful school board.

Commented: Saturday, July 5th, 2025 @ 4:18 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This law will also help reduce housing costs for American citizens. As usual, the lefties run to the radical judges to try to screw things up.

Commented: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 2:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What swampy Republican senators did or allowed to happen to the Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate is disgusting, and we need to replace all of them we can in the primaries, because we also need to replace the new McConnell, John Thune. It was the swampy Republicans themselves who were responsible for some ot the watered down items like cutting only half of Biden's spendthrift Green New Deal instead of all of it, like the House did. On other things like letting illegal aliens still get Medicaid, it was a matter of Thune refusing to overrule the Democrat Senate Parliamentarian who had been hired by Harry Reid. Why in the heck did we even have a Harry Reid holdover sitting in that position to screw with this bill? Too many "Republican" senators are really Democrats in Drag. Getting rid of that sellout Tillis is a good start, and so will be taking down Cornyn, Cassidy, and Graham, but there are more that need their walking papers. That idiot James Lankford who tried to do Biden's bidding on open borders comes up agains in 2028. He badly needs to go. All of these sellouts helped Obama and Biden get some of their key legislation through.

Commented: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 @ 7:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is the best political news I have heard in a long time. No more Thom Tillis! Tillis has been a major promoter of the wind and solar boondoggle for decades.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 5:13 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

"Fourth Reich" sounds about right for the way these globalists are behaving in Germany. Globalism is to the 21st century what fascism was to the 20th and communism to the 19th and 20th.

Commented: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 7:32 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The partisan abuse of power by this Harry Reid holdover Senate parliamentarian just keeps getting worse and more blatantly partisan. This is the same woman who let Democrats stuff a "reconciliation" bill under Biden dubbed the "Inflation Reduction Act" with all sorts of highly ideological climate alarmist boondoggles and pork.

There is problem not time to remove her but she can be overruled by the Senate. Cowardly useless wimp John Thune refuses to do that. As soon as possible this despicable partisan witch needs a pink slip but wimp Thune will probably not do that either. He is just as utterly useless as Mitch McConnell.

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Commented: Friday, June 27th, 2025 @ 9:58 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

You identified the problem. None of this is communicated to the public to allow them to respond until after the fact. We used to have a daily newspaper that carried information like this and had a wide circulation, but what is left of that newspaper is now a pathetic joke. It would help if online publications like this one would help try to get such information out.

What are council members who genuinely want to represent the public going to do? Realize that this budget is a massive burden on citizens and send it back for cuts. They don't have to have people tell them that to comprehend the problem. Unfortunately, Washington now has a council that is almost all pathetic yes-men who will do what Boss Sadler wants. That needs to change.

Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 3:49 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Joe Rogan demolished Bernie Sanders on the issue of "global warming" when Sanders appeared on Rogan's podcast. Sanders gave the usual globalist blather and Rogan took him apart with facts.
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Commented: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 @ 1:40 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

City government is a two man show. The current city council is a toothless joke because a majority is in the mayor's hip pocket. If he says jump, they ask "how high?". Between the major and the manager, I suspect that if the item in on the mayor's personal agenda, he calls the shots, and if not, it is the manager. Of course, Sadler's wife is the power behind his throne, and in many ways, she may be the one calling the shots. At city council meetings, one can witness her furiously texting the mayor up at the front telling him what to do, and him looking down at his phone reading her text instructions. And she holds no elected office. What a sad state our city government is in. Our school board and county are not any better.

Commented: Sunday, June 22nd, 2025 @ 11:23 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is just another example of how Phil Berger is in the hip pocket of Red China and doing their dirty work to destroy American business and open the door for Chinese competitors. By destroying our seafood industry, he helps China's dominance with its farm raised seafood, which is often of questionable quality.

"China Phil" did the same thing with the NC Green New Deal, HB951, where he is pushing types of energy heavily dominated by Red China - wind and solar - and trying to destroy American energy like coal and gas.

Phil Berger is an enemy and a traitor to America.

Commented: Saturday, June 21st, 2025 @ 7:39 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The British Conservative Party under small "c" conservative Margaret Thatcher introduced a program for occupants of "council houses" (social housing) to purchase the properties at a reduced price. That program was regarded as successful.

Taxpayers need a change from the tax-and-spend regime now running Washington. Heck, one of their councilmen actually lives in Aurora, not at the address on his voter registration. Another is functionally illiterate. The entire council are pathetic yes-men to Mauor Donald Sadler.

Commented: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 @ 11:03 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

When will the Supreme Court crack down on these partisan, out of control, power grabbing Democrat judges?

Commented: Sunday, June 15th, 2025 @ 6:42 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Reports also say the shooter Boelter also ran an NGO called Red Lion that worked in the Congo, but ran out of money a few months ago. That smells like a USAID contractor, but if the USAID closure was his beef, this is a strange choice of targets. Maybe it was some kind of strange "false flag" operation. Gaza, USAID, "No Kings" give this a very left wing flavor but something seems to be missing here.

Commented: Saturday, June 14th, 2025 @ 6:17 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Electric cars can also catch fire when their battery bursts into flame in your driveway or garage and burn your house down. It is great that Trump is taking away the subsidies for them even if that gets Musk's panties in a twist.

Commented: Monday, June 9th, 2025 @ 2:13 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Cheeseman got the gold mine. The parents, taxpayers, and students got the shaft. Cheeseman's gold mine is another resume entry on consolidation for his next job in a bigger, better paying school system. Everybody else gets a more screwed up school system., but the shaft is a particularly deep one for the people of Aurora and Richland Township.

Commented: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 @ 2:12 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer