Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

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

Biden does not want offshore oil production. He is pushing offshore wind farms, which are a very expensive way to make electricity while slaughtering seabirds and destroying fishing grounds. He cares nothing about the negative impacts on Americans. He is just pushing his far left ideology. Biden's climate policies are both Russia-friendly and even more so China-friendly.

Commented: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 6:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Voters need to pay attention in the GOP primary for county commissioner. Tax and spend Commissioner Frankie Waters needs to be defeated. Taxpayer champion Stan Deatherage needs to be reelected. Beyond them. Tandy Dunn is another taxpayer champion, while Dawn Slann is a Waters clone.

Commented: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:54 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The spending in that bill is obscene. Page after page of corrupt pork barrel plus lots of far left programs. The RINOs who voted for it are a disgrace. Worst of all was the total lack of transparency with less than a day to read a bill thousands of pages long. It is the old Democrat mantra - you have to pass the bill to find out what is in the bill. That is just wrong.

Commented: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 @ 7:25 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It has also come out that Biden SCOTUS nominee Brown has also praised the Marxist BLM organization, the Marxist Critical Race Theory, and the radical and dishonest 1619 Project. She is clearly a far left racist. www.breitbart.com

Commented: Thursday, March 17th, 2022 @ 11:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Offshore wind is one of the most expensive ways there is to generate electricity, which would be devastating to electric ratepayers. The Long Island Power Authority, for example, last year contracted to pay the South Fork Wind Project four and a half times the wholesale rate that they pay to conventional power sources. That gets passed on to consumers. Then there are the massive bird kills and other detriments to wildlife from wind turbines.

NC RINOs led by Phil Berger and Tim Moore are complicit with Cooper in adopting Joe Biden's energy plan in HB951.

Commented: Saturday, March 12th, 2022 @ 7:07 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The Historic District is a big asset to Washington. Sadler's attempt to destroy it is insane. He does everything for power or for money, so whose money is behind his war on history? The vinyl siding people?

Commented: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 9:49 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden and those pulling his strings should be tried for treason for their putting their allegiance in the climate alarmist cabal over any allegiance to the United States. Not restarting our energy production is nothing short of criminal, and I do NOT mean their silly and ineffective windmills which are next to useless. The American people are suffering from their treason.

Commented: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 12:31 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer