Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

Washingtonian, it is all too common for local top bureaucrats to accumulate too much power they should not have when the elected boards that are supposed to be their bosses are weak or complacent. That creates a local "deep state". We have that locally at the county, city, and especially school board level. The tail is wagging the dog in too many instances. The way to solve that is to elect people to governing boards who will assert the powers those boards possess to keep the bureaucracy in line.

If you have to fire these bureaucrats, the thing to keep in mind is that while they are pulling the wool over the eyes to their governing board, they are also probably writing contracts for themselves to make it hard or expensive to fire them. The way around that is to find the circumstances where they can be fired for cause. That saves the taxpayers a whole lot of money.

Commented: Saturday, June 21st, 2025 @ 4:14 pm By: John Steed

Many conservative think Sen. Buck Newton's amendments are quite good. It is too bad that the Democrats have their panties in a twist. Cry me a river. Don't let these woke imbeciles control the agenda.

Commented: Sunday, June 15th, 2025 @ 5:35 pm By: John Steed

Maybe some of those "Rs" are really Undocumented Democrats. Well, actually more than just "maybe".

It is telling that both school board members whose district's schools were impacted by this voted against it. Why are school board members whose district's schools are not impacted doing this to the southside schools? That is outrageous. Stacey Davis was the only board member on the north side of the river not to suck up to Boss Cheeseman.

Commented: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 @ 9:38 am By: John Steed

IT seems that too many on the school board are saying in effect "Don't confuse me with facts because my mind is already made up". Even worse, their minds were made up by Cheeseman's diktat.

Commented: Monday, June 2nd, 2025 @ 1:21 pm By: John Steed

That out of town lawyer Cheeseman got hired as school board attorney is chairman of the Durham County Democratic Party, one of the most "woke" party units in the state. Cheeseman had brought him in as school board attorney in the previous county he was superintendent as well. He seems to function more as the superintendent's attorney than the board's attorney.

The only visible things Cheeseman seems to use him for are:
1) backing up Cheeseman's election interference in school board elections as he did twice in the 2024 election, and
2) backing up Cheeseman on kowtowing to the liberal DPI on curriculum

He seems to be missing in action on the things that we need an active and engaged school board attorney for.

Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 2:01 pm By: John Steed

John Valley, the difficulty is that efficiently maintaining and improving your existing schools does not shine on a superintendent's resume for that next job in a bigger system like consolidating schools does. Superintendents are constantly building their resumes and too often school board members just sit there fat, dumb, and happy while they do it. The parents and taxpayers are poorly served by such "lost in space" school board members.

Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 1:36 pm By: John Steed

From the standpoint of taxpayers, commissioners, etc., this project most certainly is about money, too. My point is that money has absolutely nothing to do with why Cheeseman is proposing this. That is only his smokescreen. It is all about building his resume on consolidating schools for purposes of his next job. Cheeseman's tenure has demonstrated that he is a financial illiterate anyway. The 4 acre fiasco is a clear example of that. So is going to a contractor with t along history of cost overruns for building his mega elementary school.

Commented: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 @ 10:21 am By: John Steed

The price Speedway always tries to hike the local gas price to is $2.99 a gallon until their competitors pull it back down. They are price gougers.

Commented: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By: John Steed

One can see why the Democrats went to such extremes to cover this up. If we had an objective news media, they would have demanded release of this while it still mattered.

Commented: Saturday, May 17th, 2025 @ 1:45 pm By: John Steed

The problem is not "the courts". It is politically corrupt Obama judges and Biden judges abusing their positions to push a political agenda and this absolutely MUST be stopped if we are to preserve democracy within our Constitutional republic. These partisan Democrat judges are just unelected, unaccountable, political appointees who are trying to attack democracy in their power grabs. There are lots of other solid Constitutionally sound judges out there, and sometimes in appelate courts they have been able to stop the Obama and Biden nutters. But the above article is right that this is all about delay, which they achieve even when a higher court shuts them down.

There are other options than the above. One is impeachment of the politically corrupt judges, with heavy duty subpoenas to seize documents and electronic devices to investigate any collusion in this clearly political campaign of judicial "resistance".

A variation of that would be a special committee in Congress to investigate these judges and subpoena them to testify before that committee in a public hearing. Put these tinhorn judicial dictators on the hot seat.

Additionally, Congress could use the power of the purse to punish them for their undemocratic acts. What we are seeing is the Judicial wing of the Democrat Party. They are 100% politics and 0% Rule of Law.

Commented: Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 @ 10:28 am By: John Steed

Don Brown would be a very welcome change from "Terrible Thom" Tillis.

Commented: Saturday, May 10th, 2025 @ 4:39 pm By: John Steed

Agreed, Country Girl, but Tillis will be in the Senate until 2026, and until that time he needs to be moved to most insignificant committee assignments possible, certainly NOT Judiciary.

Commented: Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 @ 7:07 pm By: John Steed

Traitor Thom Tillis badly needs a primary in 2026 and he needs to be run out of office on a rail. Tillis is nothing but an Undocumented Democrat.

Commented: Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 @ 7:45 am By: John Steed

Unfortunately, that figures. Cheeseman has never liked transparency or public involvement in decision making. That was shown by the bizarre and controlling way he handled the last meeting at Aurora. It is also shown by his failure to follow NC statute on public hearings on his scheme to consolidate Eastern and Tayloe into Cheeseman's Folly monster elementary school. Cheeseman patterns his power plays after the Deep State.

Even if you are not from Chocowinity, it is good to show up tonight.

Commented: Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 @ 12:57 pm By: John Steed

The fiasco at the Aurora public hearing on Snowden was an utter travesty.
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Commented: Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ 4:14 pm By: John Steed

"Here's the Truth" must not have heard Henry Hinton a few days ago on his radio show discussing the outrageous costs of meals at convention hotels in Washington, DC. Those numbers Hood had to pay in DC were in line or even a little less than what Henry encountered at a radio convention in DC. That is likely all too common at convention hotels in big cities generally. One could get a much better breakfast buffet at Golden Corral in Greenville for a lot less money, but that does you no good when you are at a convention in Washington, DC or some other big city.

Commented: Monday, April 14th, 2025 @ 8:29 pm By: John Steed

What is really evil is the gain-of-function research on viruses, especially when conducted in China. Those who approved those things should be indicted.

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 3:13 pm By: John Steed