Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Apparently, Mr. Garrison has not kept up with what was happening at Snowden. They made great progress this past year in improving their scores on the state tests, but in spite of this Superintendent Cheeseman in a sudden move put them on the chopping block. While Mr. Garrison was not involved in helping Snowden move forward, Mr. Hickman was. He was in frequent communication with the school and on site to help out. He encouraged other school board members to visit the school to see what was happening there. Mr. Hickman was very engaged in helping Snowden move forward, but Mr. Garrison was not. So how is it that Garrison thinks he can criticize mr. Hickman?

Snowden was lost because we have a faction on the school board that are yes-men or women for the superintendent, and that is what needs to change. Often a superintendent will push for school consolidation because they think it will look good on their resume for their next job. Charles Hickman is a school board member who has stood up for the citizens of Beaufort County. Mr. Garrison was encouraged into this race by a major supporter of the superintendent, so it does not take a rocket scientist to see which side he would be on. That is also likely the reason he did not speak up at the various meetings, because he did not want to challenge Cheeseman's position.

Wasn't Garrison present at the first meeting where the closing of Snowden was first initiated? There was no big crowd then. If he cared about Snowden, instead of playing politics, he would have spoken up then. Instead, he is trying to falsely put blame on somebody who was there working for Snowden, Charles Hickman.

Beaufort County does NOT need another rubberstamp for the superintendent on our school board. We have too many of those already.

Commented: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 4:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That despicable pair of quislings, Phil Berger and Tim Moore have set North Carolina on the same idiot path as New Jersey and California on energy. They sold out both Republicans and North Carolina electric ratepayers to pander to woke energy monopoly Duke Energy and to liberal governor Roy Cooper to totally rewrite and ram though HB 951 to close cheap and reliable coal power plants and move to expensive and unreliable intermittent wind and solar. That is a pure leftwing New Jersey move by Berger and Moore that betrayed North Carolina.

Commented: Monday, November 3rd, 2025 @ 9:03 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

There are economic reasons why Russia and China have funded environmental organizations in the US and it has nothing to do with any love of the environment. It has to do with economic competition. Russia has wanted to hamstring our energy sector, with which it comperes by promoting groups that want to tie it up with regulations and lawsuits, but they seem to have had other things that have taken priority in more recent years. China wants to drive up energy costs for our industries, giving a competitive advantage to their own where cheaper coal fired power is their continuing energy mainstay. They also want to sell us solar panels, of which they are the major worldwide supplier and raw materials for wind turbines.

These five billionaires, on the other hand, are in it purely for ideological purposes. America needs to find a way to shut down all of this politically motivated foreign money coming in.

Commented: Sunday, November 2nd, 2025 @ 5:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The fact that Michael Whatley has no philosophical compass or fixed set of principles is shown by the fact that he and his lobbying / public relations firm worked for the Green New Deal grifters of Big Solar and pushed their own scheme to promote the leftwing ESG litmus test for companies. That is NOT the background we want in a US senator. If you like shifty Mitch McConnel or John McCain, you will love Michael Whatley. He is Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins without the skirt (at least that we know of)>

Commented: Saturday, November 1st, 2025 @ 11:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Stan, I think some heavy politics are involved in the school board taking contracts away from prominent Beaufort County Republicans and giving them for higher bids to competitors out of county. As I recall, they took the website contract away from your company and gave it to an out of state company which wanted a lot more money. Then they took away the school grounds contract from a company owned by the finance chairman of the county GOP and gave it, for more money, to a company from Pitt County. I suspect there are more like that but those are just the ones I have heard of. It all looks like political game playing against local Republicans to me.

Commented: Thursday, October 30th, 2025 @ 9:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is not surprising about the sea level rise claim. Every scare story from the climate alarmists that has passed the date it was supposed to happen has failed to happen, even a little bit, and there have already been dozens of scare stories that have just failed to happen. They have not been correct even once. The are batting zero on their scare stories. The climate alarmists are Chicken Little on steroids, the biggest grifting doomsday cult in history.

Commented: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 @ 8:50 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Timothy Mellon is indeed a great patriot for this generous act. All patriotic Americans should thank him. And, yeah, lets just see if any of those leftwing billionaires step forward to save Food Stamps the same way.

Commented: Saturday, October 25th, 2025 @ 7:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

From what I am told, conservatives on the board made use of identified violations of President Trump's EO to move to eliminate the gender identity and sexual orientation provisions. The new policy that bans DEI was written and proposed by Board member Steve Rader, seconded by member Charles Hickman, and ended up passing unanimously.

Commented: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 @ 8:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

These protests, though wacky as hell, are protected by the First Amendment, and these bozo billionaires are within their Constitutional rights to throw their money away on them. However, it is good to see them exposed for the anti-American jerks that they are. However, when it comes to funding ANTIFA, they are a terrorist organization, and funding them should result in criminal RICO charges and asset seizures. The starting point should be full audits of Tides and Arabella to see where their money came from and where it went. The enablers of ANTIFA need to be locked up.

Commented: Sunday, October 19th, 2025 @ 8:30 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Fake data and rigged computer models are endemic in the climate alarmist spiel.

Commented: Saturday, October 11th, 2025 @ 1:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That boondoggle with the 4 acres of land they did not actually own that the new school is being built upon, and the half million dollar bandaid that had to be applied to it should be a red flag that maybe everything is not as it should be in Beaufort County Schools finances. I wonder if that is why the local school board member who asks the most financial questions, Stacey Davis, came under attack recently by the school superiintendant?

Commented: Monday, October 6th, 2025 @ 3:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Do we have a local Deep State in Beaufort County and is Cheeseman a kingpin of it?

Commented: Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 @ 4:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Watch out, North Carolina. RINOs Phil Berger and Tim Moore have done the same to us with HB951, NC's Green New Deal. It's mandates on wind and solar are worse than those of the European Union. Who knows if they were pandering to woke energy monopoly Duke Energy or to Roy Cooper, both of whom were pushing for that, but Berger and Moore sure screwed NC consumers.

Commented: Monday, September 29th, 2025 @ 11:07 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Why do wimpy politicians around here let arrogant bureaucrats get too big for their britches? Think City Manager, School Superintendent, County Manager.

Commented: Monday, September 22nd, 2025 @ 7:29 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is way past time to start punishing rogue judges. There are too many Soros judges in addition to Soros prosecutors. Here in North Carolina we have two Soros justices on our Supreme Court, one of whom, Anita "ANTIFA" Earls is up for election next year. The easier thing to do is vote these partisan leftwing hacks out of office.

Commented: Monday, September 15th, 2025 @ 12:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What that despicable scoundrel Phil Berger did to us on the NC Green New Deal, HB951 as totally rewritten at the last minute in the Senate is unforgivable. His rotten deal with Roy Cooper and with woke electric monopoly Duke Energy is already running up our power bills. Berger's HB951 is more radical that the European Union's Green Deal, which Europe's farmers call "climate communism".
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Phil Berger needs to be run out of office on a rail. I am glad to see his own county sheriff is primarying him next year. Throw the scoundrel OUT.

Commented: Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 @ 9:11 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

After Climategate, what thinking person would EVER believe a climate alarmist? The best way to tell if they are lying is to look to see if their lips are moving.

Commented: Sunday, September 7th, 2025 @ 4:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer