Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

"Center-left government"? I never thought about it that way, Stan, but that is a very apt description of what Beaufort County has in office. Frankie Waters and Jerry Langley are almost joined at the hip in the way they vote. In this election, there is not a dime's worth of difference between Frankie Waters and Ed Booth on issues. Waters changed his party registration on paper a short time before he ran for commissioner, but he has never changed his tax-and-spend mentality. Waters has been pulling the wool over the eyes of Republican voters for far too long.

Commented: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 12:57 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Even worse, DHS used a corrupt no-bid contract for $177M to secretly arrange that illegal alien facility in Greensboro.
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One wonders how much of Hunter Biden's "art" these con men had to purchase to get that sweetheart deal?

Commented: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 8:42 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Speaker Tim Moore is trying to betray the taxpayers of NC and the Republican voters of NC by selling out to Roy Cooper on the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. This bill is a tool to do that. Moore needs to be shown the door, as he is a go-fer for Roy Cooper on far left issue after far left issue. Rep. Danny Lambeth is a RINO and an operative for Big Medicine. With "Republicans" like Tim Moore, who needs Democrats? This bill turns over "negotiations" with the Biden regime to appointees of Roy Cooper. Democrats negotiating with Democrats, what good can come of that?????? Tim Moore seems to have Benedict Arnold as a role model.

Commented: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 11:33 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Another nutty excuse for a boondoggle with taxpayer money. "Racist roads"????? This dude ought to be in a mental institution. Here is a billion dollars of pure waste in the federal budget that ought to be cut.

Commented: Friday, July 1st, 2022 @ 6:49 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

These "hospital systems" could best be called "medical conglomerates" or "medical oligopolies" because they have bought up most of the doctors offices in their areas, so that they control health care locally. They thus control pricing and can and do gouge patients. Anti-trust laws badly need to be applied to these combinations that border on being medical monopolies withing their areas. It is appalling to read that the guy who will soon be our state senator, Jim Perry, got rich helping hospitals get control of the doctors offices in their area.

Commented: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 7:25 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The big spending in the Beaufort County budget is a disgrace. Our liberal county manager played a big part in that, but it is the job of the commissioners to rein him in and they did not do it. I would say that they are spending like drunken sailors but that is probably unfair and demeaning to drunken sailors and at least the drunken sailors are spending their own money.

Commented: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022 @ 8:06 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Washington's tax increase is a massive taxpayer ripoff. So is the huge spending increase in Beaufort County that will cause us a tax increase next year. Donald Sadler and Frankie Waters are two peas in a tax and spend pod.

Commented: Thursday, June 16th, 2022 @ 9:42 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What arrogant idiots the progressives running our county government are. Citizens are suffering from massive inflation with skyrocketing gas and food prices, and instead of the tax cut our commissioners could and should have given us, they pile on even more spending which will be certain to raise our taxes next year, when we will probably be in a deep recession if not worse. Most of this spending was for unnecessary fluff like the $95,000 director of communications. While our population has shrunk by 3,000 people according to the census, our governing progressives have added MORE county employees. This is an outrage.

Progressives range from the fake "Republican" Frankie Waters, who was an active Democrat until just before he filed to run as a "Republican" for commissioner, and then has functioned as a Democrat since he has been on the commission, to admitted Democrats like Ed Booth and Jerry Langley. They are all the same, the Democrat progressives and the Fifth Column "Republican" progressives. Frankie Waters is the Mitt Romney of Beaufort Countyu.

I used to respect Randy Walker, but after he was publicly attacked by Frankie Waters at the Beaufort GOP candidate forum, even though he is not on the ballot this year, he has cowardly caved in to Frankie Waters on this spendthrift budget. Maybe Randy saw the "cancel culture" jihad that Frankie Waters unleashed to try to destroy Stan Deatherage's small business, and had concerns Frankie might target him too.

Our Beaufort County government is the same sort of swamp we have in Washington, DC, just on a smaller scale. To drain the swamp, the most urgent task is to defeat Frankie Waters, the most vile snake in the swamp.

Commented: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 5:44 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is a massive spending increase for Beaufort County and for a lot of totally unnecessary things. It will almost certainly set up a tax increase next year. Frankie Waters is pulling the wool over our eyes by being Santa Claus with spending the year he runs for reelection only to be up being Scouge the next year after his election is behind him. Tax and spend politicians like Frankie Waters are a disgrace.

Commented: Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Depending on wind and solar for a higher generation capacity also creates a blackout risk because both wind and solar are intermittent producers of electricity. At night, when it is cloudy or foggy or panels are covered with dew or ice or show, solar does not produce. If the wind is not blowing or is blowing too hard, then wind does not produce. Europe found this out with a months-long period of very light winds last summer, wrecking havoc with wind power production. An Australian state had a statewide blackout when strong spring storms caused wind turbines to automatically shut down, causing a cascade effect across the grid.

Commented: Friday, June 3rd, 2022 @ 10:05 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

When Republicans controlled Congress and the Presidency, they delivered a tax cut for the taxpayers. Republican control of the NC General Assembly has delivered several tax cuts for NC taxpayers, the most recent being last year. If Republicans really controlled the Beaufort County Commission, they would be delivering tax cuts, but that does not happen because Republicans do NOT really control the county commission. We have fake Republicans, call them RINOs, DIANs (Democrats In All but Name) or DIDs (Democrats In Drag). These trans-partisans are like transexuals, instead of boys trying to be girls, they are nominal Republicans trying to be Democrats. Frankie Waters is the worst of the lot. After being an active lifelong Democrat, Waters switched his registration just a few months before filing for commissioner as a Republican. As a commissioner, Frankie Waters votes like a Democrat, and he allies with the Democrats for control, refusing to even consult the majority of commissioners elected as Republicans.

Our taxes are too high and big spender Frankie Waters is the reason why they are.

Commented: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 9:44 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The Democrats in the legislature seem to have the same goal as Frankie Waters on spending, namely broadband, but we have to remember that Frankie WAS a Democrat until a few months before filing for commissioner, and has regularly done backroom power deals with the Democrats. Broadband is on the cusp of becoming old technology is the face of Elon Musk's Starlink and similar technologies.

With a state budget surplus, the Republican legislative majority needs to do the basic Republican thing and cut taxes. One thing we do NOT need is the Obamacare Medicaid expansion which polls show GOP voters overwhelmingly oppose.

Commented: Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 @ 10:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Climate alarmism is a tool of the far left to attack free enterprise and democracy. Tilting at their windmills raises costs for every citizen. The immediate past President of the Czech Republic, Dr. Vaclav Klaus, hit the nail on the head when he called climate alarmism "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today."

Commented: Friday, May 20th, 2022 @ 7:29 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

In doing some spring cleaning yesterday, I ran across an old political postcard that reminds me of the ads I am hearing on the radio from Tandy Dunn hitting the RINO leader on the county commission over taxes. The postcard was from Gary Brinn attacking Jay McRoy over taxes. It's wording is "Feeling a little lighter in your wallet? --- We've found your pickpocket --- Jay McRoy raised your taxes". The illustration shows a pickpocket lifting a wallet. Jay McRoy was a tax-and-spend RINO commissioner at the time who was allied to Jerry Langley. I don't remember now which election year it was, but pounding on McRoy on taxes led Gary Brinn to defeat Jay McRoy in the GOP primary. Taxpayers can only hope the similar radio ads can do the same for Tandy Dunn against Frankie Waters. Frankie Waters is today's Jay McRoy.

Commented: Sunday, May 8th, 2022 @ 9:24 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

When Frankie Waters and his allies prevented a computation of what illegal aliens cost taxpayers in Beaufort County, it seems he was covering up for Biden and the Democrats.

NEVER FRANKIE

As to debates, there have been two already for county commissioners, one from the establishment run by the Realtors and another sponsored by the Beaufort County Republican Party. The conservative candidates for county commissioner appeared at both. Who was missing in action was Sheriff Coleman and the two incumbent school board members.

Commented: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 5:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Hmmm! It is pretty clear who Cratch's "Emporer" and Steed's "conservative elected official" is, none other than county commissioner Hood Richardson. I do wish that Cratch's allegation that he runs things on the county commission were true because my tax bill would be a lot lower if he did. Richardson is there constantly supporting efforts to cut taxes and spending, but he and like minded commissioners have been in the minority. Those is actual control have been hiking spending and raising taxes. I would call Richardson the "leader of the opposition" rather than the "Emporer".

Commented: Thursday, April 28th, 2022 @ 2:09 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

High taxes and wasteful spending have been endemic in Beaufort County during the reign of the coalition of leftwing Democrats and nominal Republicans. That is one of the biggest issues in the county commission campaign. Stan Deatherage has a strong record of standing up for the taxpayer. Tandy Dunn makes a strong case that he would do so. Frankie Waters has a record as a tax and spend liberal, no different from Jerry Langley. That pair is the new tax and spend twins. Then there is Dawn Slann who seems to want to avoid the issue, but many of her statements seem to indicate that she would team up with Langley just as Waters has done.

Slann has made some of the right noises against government overreach on Covid, but it was Stan Deatherage who actually led efforts to get Beaufort County to reject Roy Cooper's Covid overreach. It looked for a time like the RINOs on the commission would finally do something right and join the conservatives in standing up to Cooper, but in the end, they knuckled under to Langley and voted with the Democrats.

The only way that we are going to get the commission pointed in the right direction on any issue is to break Langley's hold on the RINOs. In his state House race, Langley submitted answers to an online questionaire that showed he was quite far to the left ideologically. Any Republican who would ally with Langley or even "comprosmise" with him is not much of a Republican. The two Republicans running who are trustworthy on that front are Deatherage and Dunn.

Commented: Friday, April 15th, 2022 @ 8:04 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer