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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
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So, if the school board knuckles under to Frankie Waters' pressure, the odds will be that taxpayers will take another hit of about the same amount, meaning we will be ripped off for a total of about $60,000 just to feed Frankie Waters' petty personal little war with Stan Deatherage? Waters' behavior is outrageous. Are the alternatives local or out of town? If this is taking business from a local company and giving it to someone out of town it is even more outrageous.
Government contracts should be on a low bid basis as long as the bidders are competent. Anything else is a fraud on taxpayers. Political bias should not enter into the equation.
Commented: Friday, May 6th, 2022 @ 7:08 am
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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
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Commented on Dr. Li-Meng Yan: China-Covid release intentionallyRed China deliberately exported the Wuhan coronavirus or Covid. While it stopped air travel from Wuhan to other places in China immediately, it left international travel from Wuhan open for a month, allowing the virus to spread around the world. One non-stop flight from Wuhan was to Milan, Italy, where the virus first took hold in Europe, for example.
Some states are suing China over this. Our federal government should do more.
Commented: Sunday, May 1st, 2022 @ 10:54 am
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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
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Youngkin is indeed making a difference, and Sears supports him although her office does not have the power Youngkin's does. Look at education. By executive order, Youngking got rid of the masks and CRT. On the climate scam, he took Virginia out of the CO2 pact that would have soaked Virginia electric ratepayers. He still needs a Senate majority to repeal the state's extremely expensive "green" energy law. If you cannot see the difference, you are blind.
Commented: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 6:33 am
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Commented on Two Republican Parties in Beaufort CountyHigh 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
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Commented on A look back at climate predictionsThe climate alarmists have made dozens of dire warnings that have already passed their ''use by date'' and not a single one of them has come true or even come remotely close to coming true. For example, in 2004, the UN warned that there would be 50 million "climate refugees" by 2010, and in fact there were NONE. The climate alarmists are Chicken Little on steroids.
Commented: Thursday, April 14th, 2022 @ 6:59 pm
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Commented on Offshore oil leasing to stop for almost 2 yearsBiden 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
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Biden's budget is a massive boondoggle with a lot of things wrong with it. There is a huge amount of spending to promote the globalist jihad on climate alarmism, something that will wreck our economy while helping Russia and China. Biden's wealth tax is pure Marxism.
Commented: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:57 am
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Commented on High taxes driven by greedVoters 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
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Commented on Cost of lithium up nearly 500% since last yearLithium is a key component of the climate alarmist jihad against fossil fuels. It takes lots of it to make the batteries for electric cars, for the huge and unreliable storage battery systems for "renewable" energy, and lots of related things. Lithium is also prone to spontaneously combust and start extremely hot fires that are difficult to extinguish and give off toxic and potentially deadly fumes. Quite a few electric car owners have discovered that the hard way, some even losing their houses as well as cars when the lithium fires erupt. It tendency to spontaneously combust is why lithium batteries are not allowed on passenger planes.
Commented: Thursday, March 24th, 2022 @ 1:07 pm
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Commented on How much waste in 1.5 trillion spending billThe 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
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I got one of those Murphy postcards in todays mail. It was clearly political, not government business. Monkey business more likely. I went back and looked for who paid for it, and it clearly says it is paid for by the taxpayers, not Murphy's campaign committee. There is Murphy's signature for postage. That is just wrong. Murphy is off of my list of candidates to consider. I will probably go with Cowden who seems to have the most substance of the challengers. If a politician wants to become a swamp rat and abuse the taxpayers this way, it is time to change them for someone else.
Commented: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 @ 7:13 pm
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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
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Biden, Cooper, and all the Dems are up to their eyeballs in helping Russia get their energy plan imposed on America. Every time they push the absurd climate alarmist argument to dump reliable energy in favor on unreliable and expensive wind and solar is at attack on American energy independence and on consumers' pocketbooks. It is totally shameful that liberal Republicans Moore and Berger are helping them do it to North Carolina. Whatever happened to having Republican elected officials who thought like Republicans? Moore and Berger surely don't. If America is going to get our energy house in order, we need to tell the stinking Russian-funded climate alarmists to take a long walk off of a short pier.
Commented: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 12:52 pm
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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
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This is the result of Biden kowtowing to the climate alarmist cult. He is killing us on energy, gas prices now, with a massive increase in electric rates also in the cards. Sadly, the RINOs and Democrats in Raleigh are also kowtowing to the climate alarmist and passed the Biden energy boondoggle in HB 951. Thanks a whole heck of a lot, RINOs Tim Moore and Phil Berger.
Commented: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 10:15 am
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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
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Commented on Greg Murphy draws 4 primary opponents for CongressFrom what I read on another site, it looks like Cowden is the main challenger to Murphy.
dailyhaymaker.com
Commented: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 6:28 pm
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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
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We need to start getting some real Republicans who represent our base instead of the special interests. The legislature has way too many go-fers for the special interests who ignore the people back home. We have a good state House member but redistricting has put us in a Senate district with one of the worst of the special interest "Republican" spear-carriers, Jim Perry of Kinston in the Senate. Hopefully, conservatives in Craven County have come up with a primary opponent for him.
Commented: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
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That former Miss Ukraine makes quite a recruiting poster. No wonder those British ex-SAS commandos are on the way to help Ukraine!
Commented: Monday, February 28th, 2022 @ 8:30 am
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Cooper is North Carolina's Trudeau, a tyrant. He, like Trudeau, serves the totalitarian aims of the Great Reset of Klaus Schwab and the globalist World Economic Forum. Climate alarmism is a big part of their plan to control the world.
Commented: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 @ 1:45 pm
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Commented on How Eisenhower Predicted FauciThis is also true of the politicized "science" of the climate alarmists, who have public policy too much in their control, including here in North Carolina. Climategate clearly showed the climate alarmists were plotting to suppress and silence the scientists who had good common sense on climate, and to influence governments. The immediate past President of the Czech Republic, Dr. Vaclav Klaus correctly described climate alarmism as "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today."
Commented: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 @ 1:41 pm
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Senator Tom Cotton has recently pointed out that Biden has put the US on the same disastrous energy path as Germany. www.breitbart.com
And in our own North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper, Speaker Tim Moore, and Senate President Phil Berger are also taking us down the same disastrous energy path as Germany, and repudiating the America First Energy policies of President Trump. RINO Senator Jim Perry, who may end up as Beaufort County's Senator was part of the group in the legislature that engineered this embrace of Greta Thunburg and rejection of President Trump.
Commented: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 10:28 am
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Trudeau openly contributed to the violent, destructive and Marxist BLM and even took a knee with them but wants to crush those who contribute to the peaceful Freedom Convoy movement.
Commented: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 6:37 pm
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Commented on Medical marijuana, expanding Medicaid on agenda when lawmakers return for 2022 short session this springThe Obamacare Medicaid Expansion is NOT a "free market issue". It is a big government welfare state issue. It is one where the RINO leadership of the State Senate and the RINO leadership of the NC House are trying to bushwhack the GOP base and kowtow to Roy Cooper instead. Only Obama Republicans would support the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Good thing there is a conservative group in the House, led by the Freedom Caucus and Rep. Kidwell fighting this idiot idea.
Commented: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 9:31 am
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At the very least, the appointing authorities should be broadened - maybe the governor, lieutenant governor, and House Speaker each appointing one third of the members, but I like an all elected board even better.
Commented: Friday, February 11th, 2022 @ 2:55 pm
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Commented on Doug Ford announces he is cancelling Vaxx passportsDoug Ford has been GREAT at defending Ontario from the wind and solar energy grifters, but has been a disappointment on Covid issues.
Commented: Friday, February 11th, 2022 @ 2:50 pm
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Commented on Waste Not, Want NotThank you, Mr. Dunn. You will be a fitting replacement for anti-taxpayer Democrat collaborator Frankie Waters. Our taxpayers need some relief and your election to replace Waters would finally give a pro-taxpayer majority on the county commission.
Commented: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 7:22 pm
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"TRUSTED"???????? No one should EVER trust those despicable left wing pirates at GoFundMe EVER AGAIN!
It looks like West Virginia's Attorney General is gearing up to go after GoFundMe. www.dailywire.com LOCK THEM UP!
Commented: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 @ 7:50 am
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Fakebook has set the record for a one day loss of stock value ever - $232 Billion. Take THAT, Zuckerburg!
Commented: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 5:21 pm
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American patients suffering Coronavirus are victims of corporate medicine, where big companies, usually organized around hospitals have bought up most of the local medical practices and dictate policy to them. Locally it is Vidant, and if your doctor gets a paycheck from Vidant, he or she will treat you according to Vidant's Covid protocols which are essentially the Fauci Covid protocols.
The Fauci / Vidant Covid protocols are to not attempt early treatment with thearapeutics, but instead to tell the patient to isolate at home, taking Tylenol, until they turn blue or can't breath. Then they are supposed to go to the hospital for a very expensive ICU stay, first with oxygen, and if that does not work, on a ventilator. If put on a ventilator, there is only a 10% survival rate. It has been difficult, and now impossible, for patients of doctors following this protocol to even get monoclonal antibodies like Regeron, but absolutely not any other early therapeutic treatments. It is still possible to find a few independent doctors who will prescribe early treatment with therapeutic drugs, but then finding a pharmacy that will dispense them becomes an issue, since all the big chain pharmacies are in bed with Big Pharma and refuse to do so. In New Hampshire there is a bill going through the legislature to require pharmacies to dispense these drugs if a physician or nurse practictioner writes the prescription. In Beaufort County, one has to go outside the county to find the independent doctors and pharmacies that will allow early treatment of Covid with therapeutics. Doctors following the early treatment protocols have accused the doctors who follow the Fauci protocols of needlessly killing hundreds of thousands of patients by denying early treatment. Covid is showing that corporate medicine is nearly as bad for patients as government medicine.
Commented: Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 @ 9:31 am
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