Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

From the standpoint of taxpayers, commissioners, etc., this project most certainly is about money, too. My point is that money has absolutely nothing to do with why Cheeseman is proposing this. That is only his smokescreen. It is all about building his resume on consolidating schools for purposes of his next job. Cheeseman's tenure has demonstrated that he is a financial illiterate anyway. The 4 acre fiasco is a clear example of that. So is going to a contractor with t along history of cost overruns for building his mega elementary school.

Commented: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 @ 10:21 am By: John Steed

The price Speedway always tries to hike the local gas price to is $2.99 a gallon until their competitors pull it back down. They are price gougers.

Commented: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By: John Steed

One can see why the Democrats went to such extremes to cover this up. If we had an objective news media, they would have demanded release of this while it still mattered.

Commented: Saturday, May 17th, 2025 @ 1:45 pm By: John Steed

The problem is not "the courts". It is politically corrupt Obama judges and Biden judges abusing their positions to push a political agenda and this absolutely MUST be stopped if we are to preserve democracy within our Constitutional republic. These partisan Democrat judges are just unelected, unaccountable, political appointees who are trying to attack democracy in their power grabs. There are lots of other solid Constitutionally sound judges out there, and sometimes in appelate courts they have been able to stop the Obama and Biden nutters. But the above article is right that this is all about delay, which they achieve even when a higher court shuts them down.

There are other options than the above. One is impeachment of the politically corrupt judges, with heavy duty subpoenas to seize documents and electronic devices to investigate any collusion in this clearly political campaign of judicial "resistance".

A variation of that would be a special committee in Congress to investigate these judges and subpoena them to testify before that committee in a public hearing. Put these tinhorn judicial dictators on the hot seat.

Additionally, Congress could use the power of the purse to punish them for their undemocratic acts. What we are seeing is the Judicial wing of the Democrat Party. They are 100% politics and 0% Rule of Law.

Commented: Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 @ 10:28 am By: John Steed

Don Brown would be a very welcome change from "Terrible Thom" Tillis.

Commented: Saturday, May 10th, 2025 @ 4:39 pm By: John Steed

Agreed, Country Girl, but Tillis will be in the Senate until 2026, and until that time he needs to be moved to most insignificant committee assignments possible, certainly NOT Judiciary.

Commented: Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 @ 7:07 pm By: John Steed

Traitor Thom Tillis badly needs a primary in 2026 and he needs to be run out of office on a rail. Tillis is nothing but an Undocumented Democrat.

Commented: Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 @ 7:45 am By: John Steed

Unfortunately, that figures. Cheeseman has never liked transparency or public involvement in decision making. That was shown by the bizarre and controlling way he handled the last meeting at Aurora. It is also shown by his failure to follow NC statute on public hearings on his scheme to consolidate Eastern and Tayloe into Cheeseman's Folly monster elementary school. Cheeseman patterns his power plays after the Deep State.

Even if you are not from Chocowinity, it is good to show up tonight.

Commented: Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 @ 12:57 pm By: John Steed

The fiasco at the Aurora public hearing on Snowden was an utter travesty.
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Commented: Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ 4:14 pm By: John Steed

"Here's the Truth" must not have heard Henry Hinton a few days ago on his radio show discussing the outrageous costs of meals at convention hotels in Washington, DC. Those numbers Hood had to pay in DC were in line or even a little less than what Henry encountered at a radio convention in DC. That is likely all too common at convention hotels in big cities generally. One could get a much better breakfast buffet at Golden Corral in Greenville for a lot less money, but that does you no good when you are at a convention in Washington, DC or some other big city.

Commented: Monday, April 14th, 2025 @ 8:29 pm By: John Steed

What is really evil is the gain-of-function research on viruses, especially when conducted in China. Those who approved those things should be indicted.

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 3:13 pm By: John Steed

The EPA grift and the USAID grift are examples of the slush funds operated by the Deep State that are bankrupting this country to fund the far left.

Commented: Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 @ 7:03 pm By: John Steed

What Beaufort County has is 1) a domineering superintendant trying to build a resume for his next job around school consolidation here with no concern about the impact on people here, and 2) and out of touch and totally superintendant-controlled school board majority.

Commented: Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 @ 8:03 am By: John Steed

I wish those two conservatives had held firm. I understand that Cheeseman was putting out the word that he would move teachers from schools in their district and then blame them if they did not go along. Cheeseman plays dirty pool, as do those who associate with him.

What we need is a school board majority that is not in Cheeseman's hip pocket, but as long as a majority are, our school system is in a mess,

Commented: Monday, March 31st, 2025 @ 10:28 am By: John Steed

The title search problem is really an out-of-town attorney problem. Normally, in a government development project of this size, government attorneys ride herd on these things, including title searches. However, with an out of town attorney, two hours away each direction, it appears that the central office staff tried to play attorney and substitute for a real attorney, and this fiasco on the four acres is the result. It took $250,000 that could have been used for other things out of the school budget as well as setting county taxpayers back another $250,000 out of the county budget.

Practicing law without a license is a criminal offense in North Carolina, and screwups by unlicensed persons like this is the reason why. Maybe the school system is stonewalling because someone may have some criminal liability in this disaster. Those four commissioners are in full coverup mode. If there had been a legiitimate professional title search done in a timely manner, they would have no reason not to provide it. The fact that they are stonewalling speaks volumes by itself.

Most school boards have local attorneys engaged as their school board attorney. In Beaufort County's case, the superintendant convinced them to hire someone who is part of the state education establishment. He may see that as protection for him over public demands on curriculum, but it has screwed the school board, the county, and the tazpayers on the bumgling of this school project. This boondoggle ought to wake up a majority of the school board to the fact that we need someone local as our school board attorney.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 6:22 pm By: John Steed

Stan, the Texas State House of Representatives had a similar arrangement for a number of years. The Speaker was a more liberal Republican and he formed a coalition of Democrats and less conservative Republicans to hold power because he would have lost if he sought the backing of the Republican caucus. He went too far when he crossed Governor Abbot on one of the governor's pet issues, univsersal school choice and blocked the governor's bill in the House. Governor Abbot responded by recruiting and endorsing primary challengers to the Speaker and his allies. The governor's candidate beat most of the Speaker's allies in the primaries and now the Texas state House has a new Speaker who is a solid conservative elected solely by Repbulican legislators and just passed the governor's universal school choice bill.

Commented: Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 @ 9:51 am By: John Steed

Since harboring an illegal alien is a federal felony, hopefully the DOJ will start prosecuting some of these arrogant leftwing politicians who do things like this.

Commented: Monday, March 17th, 2025 @ 8:05 am By: John Steed