Comments by Conservative Voter | Eastern NC Now

Free speech is under threat around the world. We need to be on guard here as Democrats in our country are pushing this same attack on democracy. Real democracy cannot exist without free speech.

Commented: Friday, March 27th, 2026 @ 11:49 am By: Conservative Voter

John "Sassyattorney" is the wife of the former city manager who beat a hasty retreat when the Sadler machine fell in the last election. From my understanding, she has a law license but does not actually practice law. She has a huge chip on her shoulder over her husband losing the city manager position which paid a nice salary. She resents that GOP involvement in the election that brought down the Sadler machine.

Commented: Monday, March 23rd, 2026 @ 7:51 am By: Conservative Voter

Most of what BS Bob is whining about involves necessary measures to deal with Democrat incompetence on the border and on Iran seeking nuclear weapons, and some temporary side effects of that. Iranian officials in their own boasting claimed to have enough 60$ enriched uranium to make ten nuclear bombs. Yes, it takes 90% enriched for a bomb but it only takes ten days to go from 60% to 90%. Trump had no choice but to act, and that was because of the failures of Obama and Biden to deal with Iran.

Commented: Friday, March 20th, 2026 @ 6:07 pm By: Conservative Voter

Illegal aliens crossing the Rio Grande also frequently throw away their ID's before entering the US; During the Biden Open Borders era, there were photos circulated of very large piles of discarded national ID's on the Mexican side of the river. This seems to be a common tactic of illegal aliens in both Europe and America.

Commented: Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 @ 12:50 pm By: Conservative Voter

We definitely cannot trust sitting Commissioner Randy Walker on taxes. He failed in his bid for commissioner as a Democrat and then tried again as a nominal Republican. During the primary in his first GOP run, Walker widely advertised that he stood for "No New Taxes" and then immediately after winning the primary, he took all of his material about taxes down and acted like he had never run on that issue. Once he took office, he became a constant ally of the two Democrats on the count commission.

If we are going to get a pro-taxpayer majority of genuine Republicans on our county commission, his history says we cannot count on Randy Walker.

Commented: Sunday, March 15th, 2026 @ 7:17 pm By: Conservative Voter

I am afraid our own School Board went backward in a big way in the primary. Liberal Carolyn Walker will be the Queen Bee after November. Replacing two conservatives with two retired school teachers who have been members of the radical teachers union will pull the board substantially to the left.

Commented: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 9:21 am By: Conservative Voter

I missed one important primary race in my earlier comment. The loss of the only conservative, and the only real shot at beating Roy Cooper, namely Don Brown, in the US Senate primary is a huge loss for our state. Tillis-acolyte Whatley, I'm afraid, does not have what it takes to beat Cooper.

VZ, from watching the meetings on TV, I would put the dominant liberals as Carolyn Walker and T.W. Allen. Eltha Booth votes with them but she usually just sits and votes. Williams is definite a swing vote, and sometimes, so is Hudson.

Stan, we do not need any more splitting votes. All conservatives need to vote for you. That is what all of my family did in the first round and we will in November. Anyone else who we cannot get to do that, we need to try to push to Woolard if we can. Issues-wise, I think Woolard will work with the conservative team much more so than Edwards.

Commented: Sunday, March 8th, 2026 @ 1:21 pm By: Conservative Voter

Conservative losses in Beaufort County are substantial. Lets start at the bottom on what we lost.

Our School Board went into the election with four solid conservative seats, three liberals, and two swing votes. Conservatives had a path to achieve policy goals. Now it will be five liberals, two conservatives and two swing votes. The two incoming members replacing the conservatives are both retired school teachers who have been members of the very leftwing teachers union, the very LAST thing we need on the school board. They will be all-in on the liberalism and wokeness coming down from the public school establishment.

The county commission also looks like the chance to get out of the center-left coalition is less certain, as is the chance to take a meat ax to our taxes. Conservative stalwart Stan Deatherage was in third place and therefore in danger in November. Ashley Woolard would be a big improvement over liberal RINO Frankie Waters on the issues, but the top votegetter was a Chamber of Commerce style moderate who harps on economic development. Tilting at that windmill has produced little in several decades (ironically the defeat of Kidwell probably screws the pooch on the one promising thing locally on economic development, the interest of the drone industry in coming here which Kidwell largely drove). Conservatives can still come out of this if we work hard to get Deatherage and Woolard as the two top votegetters in the Fall, but that will be a hard slog. Edwards has done little or nothing to express interest in cutting taxes, but he came out on top in the primary.

Our biggest loss was in the State House, where we had the top conservative leader there and he has been replaced by a water boy for the special interests, whose only policy interest himself seems to be things that involve Big Ag. We will be replacing a legislator who got an A+ on gun rights issues from the NRA with one who got an F from the NRA. Our new legislator will owe his soul to the dark money special interests who dropped over half a million dollars into our district to promote him and attack Kidwell. It is shameful that our voters fell for it. Instead of a totally engaged legislator who read every bill, and caught the nonsense that was too often slipped in, we will have a legislator who turned down running for count commissioner because he did not have time for it. How in the heck will he have time to be a legislator?

Even for Congress, we got the least desirable of the choices whose strange connections with the DC swamp raises eyebrows. A seasoned local conservative like Asa Buck or Bobby Hanig would have been so much better for conservatives.

Commented: Saturday, March 7th, 2026 @ 8:52 am By: Conservative Voter

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