Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Sorry, Washingtonian, but the only ones going to get representation from Armstrong are the special interests in Raleigh that dumped half a million dollars into an independent campaign to buy him the seat. That is who he owes, BIG TIME, and who he will represent. If you watched his campaign, his own interests were clearly tunnel vision on one issue, Big Ag, so that is the other group he will represent. Anybody else? Not so much.

You are clearly more focused on petty internal political party matters, not the big picture of conservative principles. You and Phil Berger are obviously both overjoyed that the strongest voice of conservatism in the General Assembly will be silenced by the crooked special interests.

Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 8:42 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This issue all comes down to the special interests versus the people. If a company produces a product that causes cancer, they ought to have to compensate the victims. Kidwell and most Republican stood for that principle. A small group of special interest oriented politicians stood with the special interests. Dixon and Traxler are two of those, and Armstrong agrees with them.

It was not just Kidwell. It was most Republicans, who stood with average citizens and against protecting special interests. The chemical company tried the same thing in the US Congress, and in spite of a few special interest types, most Republicans refused to protect the special interests. They tried it in most states, but only suckered two states out of 50. In North Carolina, the Republican House Caucus overwhelmingly said NO to this special interest legislation.

Armstrong has a huge conflict of interest here. The chemical company involved is Monsanto, and its successor. Armstrong has extensive business dealings with Monsanto's seed division, growing genetically modified seeds for them. Armstrong has refused to reveal that conflict of interest to voters.

Roundup may be a danger beyond just employees on farms and their neighbots. Research in Florida has found Roundup in bread on grocery store shelves. It has also been marketed for home use..

Commented: Sunday, March 1st, 2026 @ 12:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That plot to kill our shrimping industry was appalling. That video really tells the story. Sen. Bobby Hanig and Representative Keith Kidwell deserve our thanks for standing up to the insiders and defeating them. Those same people who tried to kill our shrimping industry are now hard at work pushing their special interest guy Darren Armstrong. We do not need to turn over our legislative seat to the special interests.

Commented: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 @ 10:40 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The city has always done transfers from the electric fund, putting the profits into the city budget. The problem with excessive taxes is the spendthrift nature of the corrupt Sadler regime. Spending is the problem and a meatax needs to be taken to the spending side. Taxpayers cannot afford Sadler-level spending.

Commented: Friday, February 20th, 2026 @ 11:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

We need to watch out on this here in North Carolina because the RINOs led by Phil Berger put us on this path, too, with the total Senate rewrite of HB951 a few years ago. It sets CO2 targets even more severe than the European Union's "Green Deal". Phil Berger gave NC a Green New Deal that is worse than Europe's. He is AOC without the skirt.

That is why I am really pulling for the primary defeat of Berger next month and the primary defeat of all of his affiliated candidates like Carren Armstrong here.

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 12:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

These global warmists or climate alarmists have been parasites on American consumers. Their expensive and unreliable "green eneregy" - wind and solar - is driving up our electric bills. RINOs like Phil Berger, Thom Tillis, and Tim Moore have been as guilty as the Democrats on that, and Michael Whatley will be just as bad. We need to nominate Don Brown for US Senate.

Commented: Saturday, February 14th, 2026 @ 4:08 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate industrial complex is pushing this fiasco. Not only do unreliable wind and solar electricity create a big risk of blackouts, but they also drive up the electric bills of consumers. They slipped some money to pay=to-play political boss Phil Berger to impose this crap on our state. Berger is going to make North Carolina like Germany, where obsession with wind and solar has made electric rates three times what we have been paying.

Commented: Thursday, February 5th, 2026 @ 8:52 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The is another issue on these retired teachers recruited to run for school board by Carolyn Walker. Are they really Republicans? I am not sure which the Bath candidate is, but in Washington it is clearly Monica Davis.

I looked Monica Davis' voting history up on the Board of Elections website. She first registered to vote in Beaufort County in 1990 as a Democrat and then for years regularly voted in Democrat primaries. The first year Davis voted in a Republican primary was 2024. The question is - why has this longtime Democrat suddenly become a Republican, at least on paper?

I then looked up incumbent Steven Rader. He first registered in Beaufort County in 1978 as a Republican, and has consistently voted in Republican primaries ever since.

Carolyn Walker and her husband, Randy, were both longtime Democrats themselves before changing to Republican a few years ago. In spite of being registered Republican, both of them, in the offices in which they serve, too often take positions on issues one would expect of a Democrat, not a Republican. Are these teachers Mrs. Walker recruited going to be just more of the same?

Commented: Saturday, January 17th, 2026 @ 9:40 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The record is clear that Kidwell is one of the very strongest voices against high taxes and big spending in the legislature. He has the highest conservative rating ever achieved in the General Assembly on the Civitas legislative ratings. Why in the world would we want to give up that sort of record for someone who cannot even articulate what his political views are, or maybe just does not want to tell us? Or maybe he is waiting for a consultant to tell him what he needs to say to try to get elected? When Kidwell first ran, he articulated a comprehensive agenda of conservative policy, and he has stuck to it. When I vote, I look at policy positions and policy records. Kidwell's is excellent. Armstrong's is almost non-existent.

It is not a matter of who you like or dislike on a personal basis, but who will pursue conservative policies and be effective in achieving them. Kidwell has an excellent record on both counts.

Commented: Saturday, January 10th, 2026 @ 8:17 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Auditor, there has been lots of funny business going on by the defeated regime, and there is little doubt the records left behind are a mess. It would not be surprising if there was a lot of shredding going on during their way out. The remnants of the outgoing regime resisted getting qualified people in to look into their mess, but there is now a very highly qualified person in interim city manager Bobby Roberson to start picking up the pieces. Bobby has a very thorough understanding of local government. One thing that needs to be looked into and clawed back is the corrupt golden parachute given to the old city manager.

Commented: Friday, January 9th, 2026 @ 3:58 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate cult is a big fraud. Every one of their stark warnings that has passed the date it was supposed to happen has failed to happen, and there have been dozens of them. Only a fool would believe these serial liars.

Commented: Monday, January 5th, 2026 @ 10:48 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Interesting! So Phil Berger is now trying to manipulate TWO local races against people on his enemies list. He recruited Asa Buck to try to defeat Bobby Hanig in our congressional race and he sent Jimmy Dixon down here to recruit Darren Armstrong to try to defeat Keith Kidwell in the state house race. It is time to send Berger AND the Berger Boys packing. Berger is pushing a state budget that would raise our taxes. Hanig and Kidwell have been staunch opponents of higher taxes and of Berger's tax increase budget.

Commented: Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 @ 9:06 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The NC shrimp industry is not the only one Kidwell helped save from the special interest vultures in the legislature like Phil Berger.

Kidwell also played a major role in saving the raw milk industry from Duplin County RINO Jimmy Dixon's bill that would have shut it down. Many health conscience people prefer raw milk over the pasteurized variety and we have farmers around the state that provide it to them. Dixon's legislation would have put these farmers out of business and ruined them in short order. Although a farmer himself, Dixon had no qualms about throwing fellow farmers under the bus to please a special interest with lots of dollars to distribute.

Kidwell and the Freedom Caucus went to work and organized the votes to stop Dixon's attempt to shut down our raw milk farmers. Dixon had to withdraw the bill and he was in such a snit that his special interest favor got undone, that he did not even pursue the rest of the bill.

The same Jimmy Dixon was the front man for Phil Berger in recruiting challengers to the Freedom Caucus leadership including Kidwell. Dixon bragged about recruiting Darren Armstrong and appeared for Armstrong's fundraiser. Dixon's working with Berger against House conservatives probably has a lot to do with Dixon's own butthurt from the Freedom Caucus shooting down Dixon's own attempt to do a favor for special interests while going along with the special interest's attempt to put some of his fellow farmers out of business. Dixon is the worst sort of scoundrel. He and his ilk do not belong in public office.

Commented: Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 @ 2:09 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

One wonders if Don Davis was just trying to pander to having to run in a more conservative district, or whether his vote reflects that homosexuality and transgenderism are very unpopular in the black community. Buttigieg polls very poorly among black Democrats for that reason. Indeed one recent poll even found that Buttigieg was less popular among black Democrats voters than a leader of the KKK.

Commented: Thursday, December 18th, 2025 @ 9:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

ONe wonders what minefields lie in city of Washington's budget and spending. The former city manager did not get his records in on time to do an on time audit. Who knows what will be found when the documents finally do get pulled together. No wonder he beat a hasty retreat in resigning. The city needs to claw back the outrageous sum of money he was paid in that sweetheart deal on his resignation.

Commented: Thursday, December 11th, 2025 @ 3:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Climate alarmists make all sorts of dire predictions about calamities but none of them come true. There have been dozens of their predictions that have already passed the time they were supposed to happen, but NONE of them ever have. None of them have even come slightly close. They have all been duds. Climate alarmism is the biggest doomsday cult in human history. They are Chicken Little on steroids.

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 4:10 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I hope the Trump administration imposes a fine TWICE as large on the European Union for its totalitarian garbage. The EU is so anti-freedom, it ought to just change its name to the Fourth Reich or the EUSSR because under the globalists it reeks of aspects of Hitler's Germany and Soviet Russia.

Commented: Sunday, December 7th, 2025 @ 9:45 am By: Concerned Taxpayer