Comments by Conservative Voter | Eastern NC Now

Carolyn and Randy Walker are examples of politicians who cannot get elected in their own party so they fake it and put on a facade of being in the other party. Randy Walker ran for commissioner unsuccessfully as a Democrat, something he always had been and lost. Then he put on a facade as a "Republican" and won. But he still functions as a Democrat, voting mostly with the Democrats on the county commission.

Then there is Carolyn Walker. If you watch the school board meetings online, it is clear that she is the most vocal liberal on the board, much more so than the school board's only admitted Democrat, Eltha Booth. It is not surprising that she and Randy are out opposing the board's conservative members. In the Bath school district, I am told that she was telling board member Shreve that she supporeted him but was really helping one of his opponents, the former school teacher.

The Walkers are complete phonies, nothing but liberal political opportunists masquerading as Republicans. Yes, they do need to be successfully primaried next election by real Republicans. Given the misfires by the Conservative Club in this election, hopefully someone with more political skills will help a challenge. The Walkers need to go.

Commented: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 @ 7:13 am By: Conservative Voter

there are hundreds of thousands of dollars of special interest money, much of it dark money being thrown against Keith Kidwell. that shows he is a true man of the people and his opponent is a creature of the special interests, who would owe his soul to the special interests if he got elected. We simply cannot allow the special interests to buy our legislative seat for Armstrong.

Commented: Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 @ 8:59 pm By: Conservative Voter

That ivoterguide that the NC Values Coalition posted online has very good insight into our local conservative candidates. Keith Kidwell, Bobby Hanig, Charles Hickman and Steve Rader did excellent jobs in spelling out their solid conservative positions on issues. It is also a real "tell" that Darren Armstrong, Austin Garrison, Monica Davis, and Jennifer Cornelius refused to tell voters where they stand on issues. Who wants to buy a "pig in a poke"???

Commented: Monday, February 23rd, 2026 @ 4:20 pm By: Conservative Voter

Speaking of traitors, lets not forget that Thom Tillis is also crawfishing on the SAVE America Act.

Commented: Saturday, February 21st, 2026 @ 7:01 pm By: Conservative Voter

Kidwell was a Trump delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention, not a Cruz delegate. Get your facts straight, Washingtonian.

Nominating a RINO like former Marc Basnight Democrat retread Darren Woolard will not heal any rift in the party

Commented: Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 @ 4:10 pm By: Conservative Voter

Does this information in the comment below have something to do with retired teachers running against Rader and Shreve? I understand that Walker was involved in recruiting both of those challengers. Does she want to try to keep all the power in teachers hands instead of parents? Is that the reason for those two challengers? Her leading opposition to parents rights on that school board policy seems to point to that.

Ex-teachers on a school board would be too much under the sway of school bureaucrats and teachers unions, not looking out for the interests of parents, citizens, and taxpayers, which is who the board is supposed to represent. It botders on being a conflict of interest.

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 7:46 pm By: Conservative Voter

Williams is not the only poseur in this year's local GOP primaries. Monica Davis in one of the school board races has been a Democrat most of the time she has lived in Beaufort County and only recently switched parties. Darren Armstrong is also a switchover Democrat who was a major political contributor to liberal Democrat State Senator Marc Basnight over multiple campaigns. Davis has even been hanging out at Armstrong's tent at early voting. They are both fake "Republicans".

Commented: Monday, February 16th, 2026 @ 8:32 am By: Conservative Voter

Where does Washingtonian get all her absurd fantasies? This one is as wacky as her claim that Armstrong contributed to a Republican group that gave to Kidwell, which was revealed to be a lie by the online records of the NC Board of Elections. Of course, someone provably fed her that lie instead of her just making it up herself.

Again, if you look at the actual records, this latest smear by Washingtonian is clearly disproved. If any legislator was controlled by lobbyists, you would see it in the campaign finance reports. For example if Duke Energy "owns" a legislator, they will give them the max but if they just want to put out some money so maybe he or she will at least give the lobbyist the courtesy of listening to them, then they give a few hundred to one thousand. If they giving none at all, then that means they have concluded that a legislator will not even give their lobyyist the time of day. I use Duke Energy as an example because they are one of the biggest purchasers of legislative favors.

Kidwell has, in fact led the charge against some of the largest special interest groups that were funding legislators. Last term that was the casino lobbyists. Kidwell and the Freedom Caucus blocked their casino legislation. Many legislators were on the receiving end from casino interests, but not Kidwell.

Some committee chairmen are bought and paid for by special interests that deal with their committee. Not Kidwell. He is chairman of the Banking Committee. Banks have a lot of well funded PACs, but look on Kidwell's reports and you will not see contributions from those banking PACs. That is the best evidence there is that he cannot be bought because the bank PACs do not even try.

Now if you want a special interest candidate, that would be Darren Armstrong who is all about the Big Ag agenda and nothing else, and a Big Ag PAC is mailing out postcards trying to buy the seat for him. Even more, he seems to be in bed with an out of state chemical company that wants legislation to prevent people suing them over a cancer causing chenical the company produces. RINO Jimmy Dixon, who recruited Armstrong to run had introduced a bill to protect that chemical company from lawsuits by North Carolinians who were injured by their product. Dixon was doing the bidding of that special interest and they are mad at Kidwell because he was one of those who stood up for citizens and stopped that special interest bill.

Commented: Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 @ 6:35 pm By: Conservative Voter

Darren Armstrong seemed pretty allergic to talking about real issues at the GOP candidate forum, too. His website is totally issue-free. "Stealth candidate" is a good description. He wants us to buy "a pig in a poke".

Commented: Saturday, January 31st, 2026 @ 7:03 pm By: Conservative Voter

Washingtonian, that is exactly the type of blather that the establishment ALWAYS spews. Armstrong's old buddy liberal Democrat kinppin Marc Basnight could have easily said the same. Armstrong is an establishment hack, and so, apparently is Washingtonian. No wonder the Raleigh RINOs got him in the race. He would be a perfect puppet for them in Raliegh, not a fighter for conservative principles like Kidwell. Armstrong would not recognize a conservative principle if one jumped up and bit him on the ass. Anyone who would write four figure checks to the likes of Marc Basnight is NOT NOT NOT a conservative. PERIOD.

If you are voting "anybody but Kidwell": because you have your panties in a twist over his personality, why don't you just admit it?

Commented: Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 @ 9:43 am By: Conservative Voter

In North Carolina this primary season, conservative legislators are under attack from two groups. Phil Berger, through his point man Jimmy Dixon, is after the six top leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus (actually now just five since one of the Berger / Dixon candidates announced but failed to file). Berger and Dixon want to make the House safe for special interest cramdowns like Shrimpgate, the Green New Deal, the repeal of bathroom privacy laws, etc.

Then there is a statewide group of liberal public school teachers who have switched registration to Republican to try to grab GOP seats by stealth in a primary. I think the nearest one of those primaries is in Onslow county.

It would be really helpful to the conservative cause statewide if Kidwell was free to go help some of the others under leftwing and RINO attack. But, of course, with the challenge from Armstrong, he cannot. So Armstrong's challenge hurts conservatives far beyond the 79th district. In the past, Kidwell has been free to go out and help conservatives beat back challenges in other parts of the state.

John Valley, I do not believe that you have identified the political issues or policies that you support. Are you conservative or establishment?.

Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 9:01 pm By: Conservative Voter

Maybe it is time to start indicting these crooked Democrat federal judges for obstruction of justice, or, heck, maybe even treason.

Commented: Friday, January 16th, 2026 @ 10:28 am By: Conservative Voter

While shooting this woman in self defense was clearly justified, it is more satisfying to wound them and then see them prosecuted in federal court for assault with t deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer. Having these nutjobs rot in prison may be a more effective deterremt

Commented: Saturday, January 10th, 2026 @ 2:52 pm By: Conservative Voter

Amused - There is always the question with a novice candidate of why they are running. The answer will tell a lot about what kind of public official they will be. Someone who appears from time to time at county commission or city council or school board meetings for public comment will often be a person genuinely interested in the work of that body. The same is true of someone who from time to time goes to Raleigh to speak with legislators on issues. Then there are people who have been active in organizations which regularly communicate with a public body on issues.

The issue of why someone is running gets more complicated when they are recruited to run. Then the issue becomes, what is the agenda of the person or group that recruited the candidate? It is here that a politically inexperienced candidate is more easily controlled by someone else. It may be that the recruiter looked for a politically inexperience candidate for precisely that reason.

When it is Jimmy Dixon doing the recruiting, that should be a huge red flag to conservatives. He is a major Raleigh RINO manipulator.

Commented: Thursday, January 8th, 2026 @ 3:29 pm By: Conservative Voter

Here is another Phil Berger plant on our local ballot, and this one he recruited directly instead of through a surrogate. Berger despises conservative Senator Bobby Hanig who is running for Congress. Hanig played a key role in stopping Shrimpgate, the corrupt Berger sellout of our shrimpers. Berger wanted to throw a monkey wrench in Hanig's campaign, so he recruited Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck to jump in late in the game.

Berger also has a plant in the race for Hanig's senate seat, and his plant is again a big farmer never involved in politics before who was recruited for him by Jimmy Dixon. Local party leaders recruited conservative retired Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillet to run for that seat, but Berger knows he cannot control Tillet, so he wants his own flunky.

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 9:33 am By: Conservative Voter

The lawless Biden regime was covering up a lot in this case. Their "woke" DEI agenda could not handle transgender violence, so they wanted to make it go away. Now, we also know there was a racial angle to the whole thing, too.

Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 2:56 pm By: Conservative Voter

This smells a lot like Buckhout's old campaign team needing a job. They first got her to contact the most recently filed major candidate to try to get them jobs there. Hanig and Rouse and been in the race longer and were less likely prospects as they would already have staffs. When that did not work, they talked her back into the race herself so they would have jobs.

Commented: Monday, December 29th, 2025 @ 8:26 pm By: Conservative Voter