Comments by Conservative Voter | Eastern NC Now

Befuddled, you have it backward. It is those who recruited Armstrong, namely Dixon and the guy he was working for, Berger, who are the tools of the special interests and lobbyists. That is why they tried to put the shrimpers out of business in Shrimpgate and tried a similar stunt against the raw milk farmers. It was the Freedom Caucus, and its chairman Kidwell who blocked the special interests and lobbyists in both matters. Similarly when Berger took lots of money from casino interests to try to corruptly push casinos around the state, it was Kidwell and the Freedom Caucus who shot that down in the House.

Commented: Saturday, December 27th, 2025 @ 8:53 pm By: Conservative Voter

The very LAST person who would listen to a local voter is someone recruited for this race by the RINO establishment in Raleigh, like liberal RINO senate boss Phil Berger and his House operative Jimmy Dixon, and that is Darren Armstrong.

I did not agree on Kidwell's involvement in the Stacey Davis situation, but that is not nearly as important as the disaster it would be to surrender our seat to someone who is recruited by the special interest Raleigh establishement whores Berger and Dixon. There were once rumors of STacey Davis running in this House primary, and if she had it would have been a different ball game because it would have been a race between two local conservatives. We do NOT need a local legislator dancing on the puppet strings of Berger and Dixon, which is exactly what Armstrong would be.

The problem Beaufort County Republicans have had is Democrats opportunistically switching to Republican, running for office, but still thinking like a Democrat. Frankie Waters is a prime example, and guess who that dirtbag is supporting, heavily, for NC House? Darren Armstrong. Other opportunists who have switched on paper but still functioned as Democrats include Randy and Carolyn Walker. Carolyn Walker has even brought another opportunist recent Democrat switcher into the game by recruiting Monica Davis to challenge a conservative school board member. Darren Armstrong was a Democrat and major Marc Basnight supporter when he lived in Hyde County. There is an old saying that the leopard cannot change his spots. Darren Armstong is just another phony like his sidekick Frankie Waters. They are two peas in a leftwing pod.

THere were three honchos at the front of the room in Darren Armstrong's fundraiser, Frankie Waters, Jimmy Dixon, and Steve Troxler. Troxler's political history also shows the shifty types of politicians around Armstrong. In 1998, when conservative Republican US Senator Lauch Faircloth, whose background was in farming, ran for reelection, Troxler was a big player for his liberal Democrat opponent, John Edwards, a snooty Raleigh lawyer. Instead of supporting fellow farmer Faircloth, Steve Troxler was chairman of Farmers for John Edwards. Troxler showed his true colors then and should not be trusted. Troxler has also shown his true colors as an opponent of gun rights, something he has in common with Armstrong recruiter Jimmy Dixon.

Commented: Friday, December 26th, 2025 @ 10:17 am By: Conservative Voter

Also in Georgia, they are finding non-citizens on their voter rolls, including this one who has voted 25 times over the last 30 years: thefederalist.com

Commented: Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 @ 9:53 am By: Conservative Voter

I understand that Beaufort County School Board has been wrestling with the same free speech issue. From what I am told, the more liberal members voted to include an Orwellian term "hate symbol" which is like this "hate speech" scam. From what I hear it was a split vote but I don't know which side prevailed.

President Trump and Vice President Vance have both been very vocal and taken action against the attempts to suppress free speech with this "hate speech" nonsense. I wish all the Republicans on our school board at the very least stood as strongly on free speech. One expects Democrats to oppose free speech like Biden did, but not Republicans.

Commented: Saturday, December 20th, 2025 @ 12:47 pm By: Conservative Voter

So, in tightly gun-controlled Australia, 2 terrorists are able to get rifles and commit a terrorist attack. What does that say about gun control? And the law abiding citizens who were attacked were unable to possess guns to defend themselves. The blood of the victims is at least partially on the hands of the Labor Party gun control wingnuts.

Gun control rarely stops the bad actors from getting guns. All it does is prevent victims from defending themselves. Hitler and Stalin were both big advocates of gun control.

Commented: Sunday, December 14th, 2025 @ 10:46 am By: Conservative Voter

Parents are still having students bring home books like that here in Beaufort County. Our school libraries need to be gone over with a fine tooth comb to remove these inappropriate books.

Commented: Friday, December 12th, 2025 @ 10:31 am By: Conservative Voter

There is a more recent revision to 3100 that Steve Rader introduced as a board member and got passed unanimously. The earlier one that Donald introduced before Steve was on the board was drafted by Steve, who was not a board member at the time, and introduced by Donald. Those revisions were drafted to address citizen concerns that came up during the curriculum process for social studies. Steve has a lot of experience in state government with drafting state government rules which is very useful in drafting of school board policies since they follow the same process. It is also helpful that he is a lawyer. He is probably the only board member with that skill set.

I regret that some conservatives seem to have soured on Donald. Donald has his own set of principles and most of them are conservative. He has been very helpful to the cause when it comes to curriculum.

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 2:37 pm By: Conservative Voter

The Cheeseman faction is out to get conservatives. A Democrat-turned-Republican retired school teacher named Monica Davis has filed against conservative incumbent Steve Rader and a young RINO college student named Austin Garris has announced against Charles Hickman.

Monica Davis registered Democrat in Beaufort County in 1990, regularly voted in Democrat primaries, and has only been voting in Republican primaries since 2024. Rader has consistently been registered as a Republican in Beaufort County since he first registered to vote here in 1978, and is also a longtime leader in the party.

Commented: Saturday, December 6th, 2025 @ 9:11 am By: Conservative Voter

The sane Methodists jumped ship from the foundering social gospel United Methodists a few years ago and formed the Global Methodist Church. This buffoon seems to be one who stayed with the leftist United Methodists. Her disjointed screed reflects that.

Commented: Sunday, November 30th, 2025 @ 12:23 pm By: Conservative Voter

WE need to get behind our new council majority and support them. They have a big task ahead cleaning up the corrupt mess in our city. This outright theft of $140,000 is a start but who knows what else lurks. I hear there is a lot of paper shredding going on in city hall.

Commented: Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 @ 8:58 pm By: Conservative Voter

A judicial coup should be treated the same way as a military coup, those involved should be arrested and tried before a military court. Lincoln used military courts for a lot more than military cases, and we need to do so today as well. There is too much political corruption in our federal court system to trust it at all.

Commented: Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 @ 11:13 am By: Conservative Voter

Washingtonian, you are trying to put my words in Kidwell's mouth. Those are my words, and I stand by them. Internal party matters here matter a whole lot less to the impact on our lives than what is done in the General Assembly. Turning over positions in Raleigh to strengthen the likes of Phil Berger and Jimmy Dixon is nothing short of an attack on conservatism.

Oh, and if you have your nose out of joint on local internal party matters you might want to talk to a conservative activist in Rockingham County (Berger) or Duplin County (Dixon). You will find a LOT MORE heavy handed manipulation in those local parties by Berger and Dixon than anything Kidwell has been accused of here. And they are the ones who have anointed this Berger Boy challenger to Kidwell.

Commented: Monday, November 24th, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By: Conservative Voter

Trump is reversing a lot of the damage that Biden did to our economy, but the MSM media refuses to cover much of it. We need to get the word out.

Commented: Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 @ 12:51 pm By: Conservative Voter

VZ, with Snowden gone, the Deep State within our school system has now probably put a target on the back of Bath Elementary.

Commented: Monday, November 17th, 2025 @ 7:45 am By: Conservative Voter

Good riddance to Democrat-in-Drag Frankie Waters. He has been a fifth columnist within the GOP since his opportunistic change of party.

Stacey Davis' seat does not come up again until 2028, but I expect the usual suspects to go after her then. I hear that liberal Democrat Mac Hodges is eyeing a comeback attempt, but he may pull a Frankie Waters and do an opportunist "conversion". Mac Hodges sat there for years as nothing but a rubberstamp for the superintendent, totally useless.

Commented: Friday, November 14th, 2025 @ 6:03 pm By: Conservative Voter

Mr. Garrison also essentially admits he was recruited to run by the Forest woman. When it was brought up by someone that Forest had recruited a candidate south of the river, Mr. Garrison responded almost immediately to that description. While he denied another aspect of that post, he has never denied that he is the Forest woman's candidate. The post he responded to did not name a candidate or a district, but Mr. Garrison, who I do not recall ever posting on the BO before immediately came forward and essentially said "that's me". The Forest woman is VERY tight with Superintendent Cheeseman.

Commented: Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 @ 9:56 am By: Conservative Voter

So you are still living at home and have never held a real job? And you acknowledge you were there at the school board meetings but failing to stand up and speak out for Snowden? Did the cat get your tongue?

School systems are big businesses with budget well into the tens of millions of dollars, often the largest employer in many counties. So comparing a candidate who has not even financially run his own household much less his own business to someone with actual business experience running his own independent business shows a huge difference in qualifications.

Teaching school is not a required qualification for the school board, but someone who has been a teacher in the past certainly has a lot more useful knowledge than someone who has merely been a student, something that all of us have been at some time.

It is well known that closing Snosden was the superintendent's project. If someone does not have the backbone to stand up to the superintendent to speak out for his community when their local school is in jeopardy, how could anyone believe he would have the backbone to stand up to the superintendent at a school board meeting on other subjects?

Commented: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 1:50 pm By: Conservative Voter