Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Spendthrift Frankie Waters lied to the voters of Beaufort County in his first election by pledging to oppose building a new jail. He is a big spender and a Democrat-in-Drag. Waters first choice would be to borrow the money without voter approval if he could get away with it. I do not believe they have time to set up a bond referendum for November.

Commented: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 7:32 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Rev. Wortman's religious background may mean she sees conservatism only through the lens of social issue conservatism. She may not comprehend what a fiscal conservative is. She clearly does not understand the conservative approach to taxing and spending.

On our present county commission, we only have two strong fiscal conservatives, Stan Deatherage and Hood Richardson. On the other end of the spectrum are the three spendthrifts who vote in lockstep to keep taxes high with their overspending - Frankie Waters, Ed Booth, and Jerry Langley. They are three peas in a left wing pod on spending. The other two commissioners vacillate back and forth on spending issues, sometimes voting as fiscal conservatives and sometimes as spendthrifts.

Longtime Republican Congressman Walter Jones was mentioned earlier, and he was cut from the same cloth on budget votes as Deatherage and Richardson. In representing our district, he was a very strong fiscal conservative, and he routinely voted against any budget that overspent, and that was almost every budget. There were times that RINO Speaker Boehner would do a budget deal with Obama and twist arms of Republicans to vote for it, but Walter Jones always said NO and voted for the taxpayers, not the swamp. Deatherage and Richardson have the same backbone on spending issues. We need more like them. Hopefully Tandy Dunn will put spendthrift Frankie Waters out to pasture.

Commented: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 8:21 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Conservative policy outcomes? They left out the Green New Deal, the RINOs in the General Assembly imposed on us, a huge shift to the left that will cost our electric ratepayers a bundle. They left out their attempt to give us the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. They left out the RINOs caving in to those who think men should be allowed in womens' restrooms and shower rooms. They left out the RINOs screwing up our election laws. They left out Tim Moore's spineless refusal to let the Parents Bill of Rights go to a vote. Conservatives can do A LOT better in the General Assembly.

Commented: Monday, September 12th, 2022 @ 7:42 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Glad to see Tucker laying this out. Too many conservatives are afraid to challenge this climate nonsense. Heck, we have RINO leaders in the NC General Assembly, Tim Moore and Phil Berger who are in bed with these lefties. So is the "conservative" prime minister of the Netherlands.

Commented: Sunday, September 11th, 2022 @ 12:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Jim Perry does not seem to care what the "little people" think. He is all about the special interests. I read on another site that a delegation of party activists from Craven County went to Perry's office to ask him to vote against the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and part of what Perry told them was "I don't represent you." Craven County IS within Perry's new district, so that comment was apparently NOT based on geography but upon his distain for those who work in the GOP. The idea of writing in someone else on the Libertarian line on the November ballot is a good one.

Commented: Monday, September 5th, 2022 @ 8:55 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

That is badly needed Stan. We have had too many instances of insider shananigans with bidding in Beaufort County. You have hit the high points of transparency and fairness.

Commented: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 3:10 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden's college loan giveaway is nothing but corrupt vote buying with the taxpayers' money. The timing of it makes that obvious. This is just one more reason he should be impeached.

Commented: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 8:41 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I wonder if they played the same power game the NC RINO leadership in our General Assembly did to force feed the horrible HB951, the NC Green New Deal to our state. Real Republicans need to primary these turncoats.

Commented: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 6:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is no surprise that the National Association for the Advancement of Crooked Politics (NAACP) went after election integrity measures like photo voter ID that make their sleazy politics more difficult, but what is the deal with their wanting higher taxes? Do they think that will mean more welfare? Whatever their reasoning, what the Democrat-controlled Supreme Court did on both issues is a power grab and an absolute outrage. Anyone who respects the rule of law and knows the danger of activist judges needs to turn out to vote in November to turn these Democrat scoundrel justices out of office.

Commented: Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 11:50 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This monstrosity of a tax bill was passed by a party line vote. EVERY Democrat has their fingerprints on it. No taxpayer should vote for ANY Democrat. They all want to up our taxes in a recession and send an army of militarized IRS auditors out to squeeze us for taxes.

Commented: Monday, August 15th, 2022 @ 3:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

No wonder Slann would not reveal where she stood on taxes and spending in her failed campaign. She is a Biden-style big spender and her doubling down on support of this boondoggle shows it. Beaufort County does not need to be wasting taxpayer money on this socialism. There is lots of other unnecessary wasteful spending in our budget like that ridiculous propaganda czar they created with a $95,000 a year salary.

Commented: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 @ 7:56 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Roy Cooper is a liar, but then what else is new? Offshore wind power is MUCH more expensive than conventional power. It is costing the Long Island Power Authority in New York four and a half times as much wholesale as they are paying for conventional power. It also destroys fishing grounds and leaves our power supply highly vulnerable to hurricanes for long term power loss. Offshore wind is even more expensive than onshore wind. From an environmental standpoint, it is also harmful to seabirds, marine mammals like whales and dolphins, and to crabs and lobsters.

Commented: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Tom Campbell is a progressive hack who spews mindless propaganda for the Democrats, and always has been. I guess this leftie propagandist somehow gives "balance" to this site, but the political lies he spews are a bit hard to handle for conservative readers.

Commented: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 9:13 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

''Green energy'' is a consumer ripoff. The ''environmentalist'' groups pushing this scam are funded by both the Russians and the Chinese. They want to push Europe and the US into expensive and unreliable wind and solar electricity while they keep using conventional electric sources that are cheaper and more dependable, giving them an economic advantage. Republican Congressmen have traced how the Russian money comes to the "environmental" groups by way of a shell company in Bermuda to a major leftwing funding clearing house in the US, and from there directly to major "environmental" groups. Nobody will do anything about it, however. These "environmental" groups are stooges of Russia and China, doing their dirty work to damage our economy.

Commented: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 7:43 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is not just Biden. Roy Cooper here in NC and his RINO bootlickers in the legislature already have the climate alarmism train on the tracks in our state. Thanks to RINO sell-outs Phil Berger and Tim Moore, our legislature passed a radical Green New Deal bill last year, HB951, that is more extreme than the EU's "Green Deal".

Commented: Friday, July 22nd, 2022 @ 6:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Who is responsible for those bad energy policies in NC exposed by the Locke Foundation? The RINOs! NC's Green New Deal, HB951, is the source of those terrible policies that will drive up our electric bills and lead to blackouts. The RINOs, not the Democrats, are the ones behind it; Speaker Tim Moore, Senate President Phil Berger, and yes, the guy who will be Beaufort County's Senator after January, RINO Jim Perry.

Commented: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 2:18 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden's next inflation driver is wind and solar energy, which is much more expensive than conventional energy, and much less reliable. This will not only drive up the cost of our electric bills but also the cost of everything manufactured with electricity.

Sadly the RINO leadership of the NC General Assembly, Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Phil Berger are in the tank with Biden and Roy Cooper on the wind and solar boondoggle. Their HB951, the NC Green New Deal is even more radical than the EU's "Green Deal" and it will cost NC electric ratepayers dearly. Another RINO to thank for this fiasco is the State Senator Beaufort County will inherit through redistricting, Jim Perry (R-Kinston) whose fingerprints are all over HB951.

Commented: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 11:32 am By: Concerned Taxpayer