Comments by Rino Hunter | Eastern NC Now

Greg Murphy voting to use our tax dollars to fund organizations that "trans" children is just despicable. He badly needs a primary. Glad he will no longer be representing Beaufort County.

Commented: Friday, January 23rd, 2026 @ 5:33 pm By: Rino Hunter

Washingtonian, you may not remember but Kidwell ran against Frankie Waters for county commissioner the first election Waters ran in. Beaufort County would have been so much better off if Kidwell had won that primary instead of Waters. That was the election where Waters lied to the Stop the Jail Committee on his position on the proposed mega-million dollar jail.

Commented: Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @ 5:52 pm By: Rino Hunter

VZ, two RINOs that can be identified with Democrat roots running as RINOs are Monica Davis running for School Board in district 6, a longtime Democrat who only recently became a "Republican", and Darren Armstrong, a longtime Basnight Democrat from Hyde County running for NC House. Frankie Waters tried to recruit him as a county commission candidate, which is also telling. The Raliegh RINOs did recruit him for NC House.

Commented: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 @ 9:54 am By: Rino Hunter

Great ad on Phil Berger, who is certainly an Undocumented Democrat and downright whore for the special interests. It will be a blessing to see him gone. The sad thing is that it will not change too much in the senate. One of Berger's lieutenants with the same mindset will take over, and probably function just like Berger. They have filled the senate with too many politically inexperienced "yes men" and "yes women" in their candidate recruitment from Raleigh to expect any different.

Last primary season, Berger inserted two of his people onto the Council of State, and this election, he is trying to insert his people into the state House, using Jimmy Dixon as his front man. He has also interfered into our congressional primary because he wants to stop one of the candidates who dared to stand up against him in the state senate.

Commented: Saturday, January 17th, 2026 @ 8:37 am By: Rino Hunter

I did not think you could produce one issue where Armstrong is better than Kidwell, and you have indeed failed to do so, Washingtonian. It is all about personality with you, nevermind the real issues our state and county are facing. I do not know why you are filled with the amount of hate you express, but you are, and that is not good for you or society.

"VOTE for FRESH NEW IDEAS. OUT with the old and stale and in with the NEW" - Washingtonian, that sounds a whole lot like the bill of goods OBAMA and then BIDEN sold America. And it sounds even more like Bernie Sanders. You don't even seem to care what those "new ideas" are. You are talking and thinking like a liberal Democrat.

Commented: Monday, January 12th, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By: Rino Hunter

"Vote for a change", Washingtonian??? Would that be "Hope and Change" like Obama or just "Change" like McGovern??? "Change" has always been a buzzword used by the left and the Democrats. Conservatives vote for specific issue positions, not something as vague as "change". So, you are the one talking like a Democrat, Washingtonian.

You seem fond of Mitt Romney, who as a senator from Utah was one of the worst RINOs in DC, terrible on a wide range of issues. It is telling that as a Romney fan, you are also a fan of Armstrong. Two peas in a pod?

The "useful idiots" are the ones who try to blur positions on real issues and try to get us to vote on some different basis. You have failed, in multiple posts, to tell us one single issue you think Armstrong is better on than Kidwell. Lets talk issues, not "feelings". The latter is also something Democrats like to focus on.

Commented: Saturday, January 10th, 2026 @ 9:18 pm By: Rino Hunter

From what I am seeing, Berger, Dixon, and their boy Armstrong are the ones to say NO to. If you are a conservative they have nothing for you. Armstrong seems to be little more than a special interest guy, just like them.

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 3:32 pm By: Rino Hunter

This is a real curiosity; a hijab wearing Muslim woman who has long been a Democrat suddenly running as a "Republican" in a heavily Democrat Durham state senate district. Who can figure what that is about? It is sorta like longtime Democrat Frankie Waters running as a "Republican" in Beaufort County. We saw how that turned out.

Statewide there is a liberal bunch, mostly educators, who are longtime Democrats but switched to "Republican" to challenge incumbents in the Republican legislative primaries. The closest of this group of infiltrators to our own county is running in Onslow against a first term conservative state representative. Here in our own county, we do have a longtime Democrat retired school teacher named Davis who recently switched to "Republican" to run against a conservative school board incumbent.

There is also, of course, the Phil Berger primary challengers to House Freedom Caucus leaders, some of the Berger-backed challengers being recent Democrats.

Commented: Monday, December 29th, 2025 @ 4:52 pm By: Rino Hunter

The candidacy of Darren Armstrong represents Raleigh insiders trying to pick our legislators for us. Jimmy Dixon, working for Phil Berger, openly bragged about recruiting Armstrong, who had no previous political experience here. Candidates like that are easy for the insiders to control if they make it to Raleigh. Dixon, a liberal anti-gun RINO is not from Beaufort County but from Duplin County down near Fayetteville.

Dixon was a surrogate for Berger in interfering in other local legislative races, in both House and Senate. In the State Senate seat being vacated by Senator Bobby Hanig, who is running for Congress, local party leaders recruited conservative retired Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillet to run for the seat. Tillet is very savvy in politics, actually working in the State Senate before he was appointed a judge. The Berger clique decided they could not control Tillet, so they sent in Jimmy Dixon to find a primary opponent. Dixon recruited a big farmer with no political background or experience (easy to control) to primary Tillet. To rain on Dixon's parade, however, a small farmer who is in raw milk farming, saw red over a Dixon-backed candidate and jumped in, too. Dixon had tried in the last legislative session to put the raw milk farmers out of business, something Keith Kidwell and the Freedom Caucus had blocked.

We do not need RINO operatives of the Raleigh establishment interfering in our legislative races in the east.

Berger has said he will dump $4 million of special interest money into his sponsored challenges to six House Freedom Caucus leaders, and that does not include what he will spend against Tillet in our adjoining state senate district. Berger's consultants usual routine is to use various PACs they control, some of them calling themselves "conservative" (nothing connected to Berger is even slightly conservative) to bombard the district with attack mail pieces.

Berger's consultants have already spent $14 million in special interest money in his own district attacking his conservative primary challenger, Sheriff Sam Page with very nasty attack pieces. Despite that Page is still ahead of Berger in the polls by ten points.

Conservatives need to defeat the Berger RINO bullies at all levels in this election, starting with Berger himself.

Commented: Saturday, December 27th, 2025 @ 6:28 pm By: Rino Hunter

It looks to me that when Carolyn Walker switched her registration from Democrat, she still kept a lot of her old Democrat thinking. One would hope she would listen to President Trump and Vice President Vance and start thinking like a Republican, which she is supposed to be.

Commented: Sunday, December 21st, 2025 @ 8:52 am By: Rino Hunter

Phil Berger is poison. He endorsed a very liberal Democrat for superior court judge against a conservative Republican, and he has been charged by multiple county and district parties including our own 3rd District with party disloyalty. Those charges have been pending for a year, but our establishment hack NCGOP chairman Jason Simmons is pulling dodge after dodge to keep the trial from coming up at the state executive committee. The Berger mafia needs to GO.

Commented: Thursday, December 18th, 2025 @ 2:01 pm By: Rino Hunter

Craven County is going to end up regretting not talking to folks here about this guy. I guess he saw the writing on the wall with the now booted city manager.

Commented: Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 @ 2:44 pm By: Rino Hunter

Washingtonian, Going from managing a city of almost 10,000 to a town of about 1.200 is a huge professional comedown for the former manager, but remember he walked away from here with a big stash of loot he did not deserve bestowed upon him by our corrupt defeated city political machine for being their loyal lackey. The new city government needs to claw that back, either from the former manager or from those who wrongfully bestowed it on him. Sue their pants off!

Commented: Friday, December 12th, 2025 @ 10:40 am By: Rino Hunter

Stan, you are absolutely right about Frankie Waters. Since he has been a county commissioner, Waters has split Republicans in order to align with the liberal Democrats. He is as phony as a three dollar bill and always has been. Even during his first campaign for commissioner as a newly minted "Republican" Waters and his wife still made a political contribution during that campaign to a liberal Democrat local legislator. He made another Democrat financial contribution in 2022 to the Democrat nominee for Beaufort County Sheriff and had to resign from the Beaufort County Republican Executive Committee for party disloyalty as a result. Waters and Armstrong are two peas in a leftwing pod. No wonder they are buddying up. With "Republicans" like Waters and Armstrong, who even needs Democrats?

Commented: Saturday, December 6th, 2025 @ 12:05 pm By: Rino Hunter

The attacks against Ms. Davis were organized by Cheeseman, who does not like independent thinkers on the school board. He prefers puppets like Carolyn Walker. Those attacks do not represent the public.

Commented: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 @ 8:04 am By: Rino Hunter

Jack Smith and James Boasberg are both threats to democracy and need to be prosecuted for what they have done. Their actions remind one of the Stalin Show Trials.

Commented: Monday, December 1st, 2025 @ 4:22 pm By: Rino Hunter

This is nothing but a conspiracy to steal from the taxpayers. All of those involved need to be taken to court either criminally or civilly or both. The only "political behaviors" that align with this city manager are Tammany Hall politics and he does not want to work for honest leaders. Screw him and the horse he rode in on. Who on the current corrupt city council voted for this travesty? IN times past, they would probably have been tarred and feathered and riden out of town on a rail.

Commented: Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 @ 2:06 pm By: Rino Hunter