Comments by Gary Ceres | Eastern North Carolina Now

Big Bob,

From personal experience the vitriol I regularly experience as a gay man is from extreme leftists that hate that I won't conform to their way of thinking, run as a regular candidate and not an LGBTWQWECJFHHJ candidate, and think independently ad do most gay people.

Commented: Sunday, October 29th, 2023 @ 8:07 am By: Gary Ceres

The 147,000 is nothing compared to the transfer of $580,000 to the Housing Authority his wife heads, the additional $50,000 settlement and the pending lawsuits the mayor has triggered to keep poor people and affordable housing away from his house. His martini sipping supporters are trying to rally around him but I sense we have a shot to defeat his slate of recruits for City Council and Sadler himself.

Commented: Saturday, October 28th, 2023 @ 8:50 pm By: Gary Ceres

Stan,


I think Big Bob may have missed history class the days they were teaching about the Holocaust. I guess that for him history started with the "peaceful protests" that killed 154 people.

Commented: Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 9:11 pm By: Gary Ceres

Thank you Stan!

Commented: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 9:14 pm By: Gary Ceres

I just want to comment that I think it's great that commissioner Deatherage and register of the Deeds Carolyn Garris are willing to meet together and come up with a solution. It speaks to both of your character. I also want to comment to Big Bob that I'm not a boomer so Boomers aren't the only ones that like paper.

Commented: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 8:09 pm By: Gary Ceres

This appears to be a conflict in the state statute. I just read the entire State Statute and it kind of contradicts itself in several areas and this is because the law was written a long time ago before all electronic and Internet devices had been created and is very vague in whether a hard copy is actually required. The language itself says filing system. I am a strong advocate of keeping hard copies since there are many reasons for doing so such as hacking, possible emps or electric failures, software issues, and the fact that we are a state where the first one to file has standing in court and it is more easily manipulated through electronic means then paper means. That stated if you read the actual statute it is up to the county to give direction to the register of deeds as to how to file the system properly according to their desires and to provide the funding and space to do so. The most logical conclusion is that the state needs to update the statute to be more specific as to whether we are referring to hard copies or simply a required filing system. If anyone would like to read the full statute here it is I'm not going to post the whole thing but you can look it up online and read it it's quite extensive with many different sections. Some sections seem to infer paper documentation While others make vague references to filing systems which courts have ruled can be electronic. Our laws should not be so vague. I think perhaps a meeting of the minds between the register of deeds and the County Commissioners could have some clarity and avoid any personalities being in conflict since the statute itself does seem to be rather vague and the problem seems to be with the state statute rather than with a particular office or local officials. The county should however make it a priority to have hard copies made and provide the space to store them since there are many reasons for doing so five of which I discussed with commissioner Deathrage today that make a lot of sense.

Relevant statute: §§ 161-12 through 161-13: Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1027.

Commented: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 9:07 pm By: Gary Ceres

Trump is coming for the Jews?!!! LMAO That is the most hysterically inaccurate and ridiculously stupid thing I've read in a very long time. It was Trump that moved the embassy to Jerusalem. It was Trump that got Israel and UAE to normalize relations. It was Trump that had the confidence of over 75% of the Israeli public in nearly every opinion poll in Israel. It is Trump that fought ISIS and eliminated it as a threat to every Jew and non-Jew on the planet. You can dislike Trump all you want but you can't make up a narrative and facts that don't exist.

Commented: Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 @ 4:49 pm By: Gary Ceres

Can't get on board here. As a free-market capitalist I see no role at all for the government to prevent casino construction unless local communities object due to increased traffic or changing the nature and culture of their towns and cities. But if the residents want them, citizens want to use them, and casinos are willing to pay significant revenues that would otherwise come from increased taxes I have to object to big-government conservativism just as harshly as I do to big-government liberalism.

Commented: Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 @ 11:10 pm By: Gary Ceres

Since I'm a candidate myself I'm not going to speculate outloud whom I think the other candidate(s) in his hip pocket are but I will say that Mr. Brooks is 100% in the Mayor's pocket and is the one that benefits the most off his seat. I will also say that Mr. Pitt is not in the Mayor's pocket and has recently been targeted by the Mayor. He is also unaffiliated officially so they are not at all happy with him. I can also say unequivocally that myself, Leesa Jones and Andrew "Tex" Melton stand in strong opposition to the majority of the Sadler/Russell plans for the city.

Commented: Friday, September 15th, 2023 @ 6:33 pm By: Gary Ceres

Going to take the contrarian view of this. Who cares? What they did in their private life which wasn't illegal to make money is their business not mine. There is plenty to dislike about the policies of this person from unrestricted abortion til birth, gender reassignment surgery for children, taxes on everyone and everything to pay for every government project under the sun. I just really, really could care less that her and her husband had a porn channel.

Commented: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 8:21 am By: Gary Ceres

So you manufactured a statistic LOL. There are higher proportions of minorities attending Hillsdale College than Yale, Harvard or Berkeley.

Commented: Monday, September 11th, 2023 @ 7:47 pm By: Gary Ceres

There's this thing called the 2nd Amendment that no elected official can arbitrarily decide to ignore. But this to matter little to some people if it suits their own personal beliefs.

Commented: Monday, September 11th, 2023 @ 1:12 am By: Gary Ceres

Would anyone truly be shocked? LOL

Commented: Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 @ 1:27 am By: Gary Ceres