Comments by Rino Hunter | Eastern NC Now

Let's not forget that Armstrong and Raleigh RINO Steve Troxler are joined at the hip. Armstrong has had Troxler campaign for him several times and constantly mentions his endorsement by RINO Troxler. Troxler's anti-gun record led GRNC to endorse the Libertarian running against Troxler last election.

Like Armstrong, Troxler is a former liberal Democrat now trying to pass himself off as a "Republican". Troxler was chairman of Farmers for John Edwards in the campaign of liberal Democrat John Edwards for US Senate against conservative Republican incumbent Senator Lauich Faircloth. Armstrong was a major contributor in four figure sums over multiple campaigns to liberal Democrat state senator Marc Basnight.

Commented: Sunday, February 22nd, 2026 @ 11:42 am By: Rino Hunter

Darren Armstrong's latest "birds of a feather"? The liberal school board challengers, Monica Davis and Jennifer Cornelius. If you walk by Armstrong's tent at early voting at the Board of Elections, he has signs up for both of them. We already knew about his close alliance with RINO Frankie Waters.

Commented: Thursday, February 19th, 2026 @ 1:51 pm By: Rino Hunter

Just say NO to former Basnight Democrat retread Darren Armstrong. He and his Raleigh RINO pals Troxler, Dixon, and Berger only serve the special interests like out of state chemical companies that give North Carolinians cancer and don't want to be sued for it, and radical environmentalists who want to shut down our shrimping industry. Kidwell was one of the central figures in stopping the shutdown of the shrimpers and stopping the bill to protect that chemical company from lawsuits by local people. Kidwell represents the people. Armstrong would represent the special interests.

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 4:16 pm By: Rino Hunter

Lloyd Williams is clearly a Democrat plant in the Republican primary. He could have filed to run against a Democrat judge but instead primaried a Republican who had already announced. Now the other shoe drops. Democrats are endorsing Williams and financing his campaign.

Commented: Monday, February 16th, 2026 @ 8:02 am By: Rino Hunter

Those mailers from the Big Ag PAC are delusional if they think we care about an endorsement from liberal Raliegh RINO Steve Troxler. Troxler is as bad, if not worse, a RINO than Thom Tillis. Will they send our a Tillis endorsement next? Big time RINO political consultant Paul Shumaker, the man who created Thom Tillis politically, had a wet dream of making Troxler the establishment candidate for governor in 2024. Tillis and Troxler are the same breed of cat. Personally, I do NOT vote for Traxler, and would not even consider voting for anyone he endorses. NEVER TILLIS. NEVER TROXLER>

Commented: Friday, February 13th, 2026 @ 8:28 am By: Rino Hunter

Anyone who was at the debate between Kidwell and Armstrong saw what an empty suit that Armstrong is. He is nothing but a "johnny one note" for Big Ag.

Commented: Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 @ 11:11 am By: Rino Hunter

Majority Leader Thune, an old McConnell man, needs to have the heat put to him to force a "standing filibuster" on the SAVE Act. In other words, make the Democrats have to stand up for 24 hours a day to debate the bill. This is the only way it can be forced to a vote. This bill is that important, and there is a real question over whether Thune has the 'nads to do it.

Commented: Friday, February 6th, 2026 @ 7:50 am By: Rino Hunter

Sorry, Washingtonian but the records of the North Carolina Board of Elections show that it is you who are the liar, or at least you are repeating someone else's lie.

NC Board of Elections records show that Darren Armstrong has only made three legislative campaign contributions in his life. All three were for $1,000 each and the recipient of all three was liberal Democrat State Senator Marc Basnight (D-Dare).

Those records do not show ANY contributions from Darren Armstrong to any candidate or political committee during the 2022 election cycle. Campaign finance law would require any political committee raising money for candidates to file a report with the state Board of Elections, with names of contributors and amounts. Those would be shown in their records. There is NO report of ANY contribution activity from Darren Armstrong in 2022. If Armstrong made the contribution you claim, it would show up on the NC Board of Elections records, but in fact their records show NO such contribution..

www.ncsbe.gov

NO, Washingtonian, the NC Board of Elections is NOT lying. You, or your source ARE.

And when it comes to honesty, Washingtonian, you are backing a stealth candidate who will not level with the voters about what his positions on issues are. That is the hallmark of an establishment hack, aka a RNIO or Undocumented Democrat.

Commented: Saturday, January 31st, 2026 @ 3:33 pm By: Rino Hunter

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