Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Van Zant: Just heard today, in my continual travels: The Beaufort County GOP needs to quickly tighten up its ship, or it could be in danger of sinking, in other words and in reference to "Truth Be Told": "Those who live glass houses should NOT throw stones."

Commented: Thursday, January 29th, 2026 @ 1:22 pm By: Stan Deatherage

There is a video now in the public domain suggesting that the recent Leftist canonized saint, Saint Alex, has had some prior trouble with ICE, where he wantonly and violently public public property, and possibly spat on an agent, and then was summarily "taken down." This all occurred about one week before his unfortunate death.

There is no information as to whether Mr. Pretti was packing his nine millimeter at that time.

Commented: Thursday, January 29th, 2026 @ 11:14 am By: Stan Deatherage

Conservative Republican County Commissioner Hood Richardson is the sole apparatus of the Conservative Republican Club, the one who manages its mechanisms, and, alternatively to the Beaufort County GOP, allows all members to interject and discuss the issues at hand, where he perfectly keeps the peace of this First Amendment affair, and everyone is happy having the right to assemble, and, additionally, having the full right to practice their Free Speech, and absorb the Free Speech of others.

What is not welcome at The Hood's meetings is mendacity. If The RINOs and RINO Whisperers' wish to test the competence and veracity of the venerable County Commissioner ... Good luck; The Hood has spent a long life trying to do the Right thing, and while he may not be perfect, The Hood is a Beaufort County Treasure.

Personally, I truly appreciate the salt-of-the-earth Real Conservatives that attend what Hood has built and continues to presides over - The Conservative Republican Club ... Hypocrites need not apply; they will NOT be welcomed.

Commented: Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 @ 7:05 am By: Stan Deatherage

Wonderful metaphor Nelson; I will give you the credit when I use it.

Commented: Monday, January 26th, 2026 @ 3:21 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Christians are becoming the new persecuted class of choice by those with chronic evil intent.

Commented: Sunday, January 25th, 2026 @ 7:06 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Where have the years gone?

Bob Weir was always the young one, the youthfully handsome one on the stage. "Time Waits for No One."

Commented: Sunday, January 25th, 2026 @ 4:44 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Whenever there is the threat of war, the United States military, when well run, always resorts to finding the best technology to wage war in defense of the American People.

Commented: Sunday, January 25th, 2026 @ 12:34 pm By: Stan Deatherage

RINO Hunter: Thank-you for your good words of support. I know I am running scared, but I will never forget that 2014 election.

I well appreciate those that support me; those that support my understanding of the proper pathway to enact Conservative policy; that which is needed terribly here in Beaufort County, and beyond. I appreciate you RINO Hunter, and I too will always support others who will do the same; just as I always have.

Thank-you for your contributions in word here on Eastern NC NOW and the Beaufort Observer.

Commented: Friday, January 23rd, 2026 @ 6:32 am By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: There have been precious few business meetings; none since September.

I am showing up to every pseudo meeting, even though no real business is conducted because my one Executive Committee vote matters, and we need to straighten this mammoth mess out, irrespective of the immanent Republican primary.

Commented: Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @ 7:03 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: You sure have a handle on best practices; the kind that Hood and I have long espoused on the Beaufort County Commission, and now Tandy is working right along with us to effect the best governing we can muster, while still working as a slim minority, with the Center-Left /Left Coalition majority working at the behest of Democratic Socialists and RINOs alike ...

Van Zant: You sound like a Conservative, who knows many salient facts about proper governing; doing the People's business.

Commented: Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 @ 8:33 am By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: These are most of the reasons why the Beaufort County GOP is NO use to my re-election as the proven Conservative candidate. I will wait to see to what extent that the damage may be done, but my hope is that the public, at large, will not take their prospective rouge actions seriously.

Commented: Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 @ 8:45 am By: Stan Deatherage

Roy Cooper is NO more than a card carrying Leftist, unprincipled and a poor defender of his passion ... To be elected by whatever fools and Non Patriots that would vote for him.

Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 7:02 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: For me this primary feels like I am running against the RINOs and the RINO Whisperers; my ideas against theirs, and may this be a referendum on the People voting in this election, and not so much on the candidates, other than me. I am real and right as rain.

That is the way I see it, and now especially since I hear that they are coming for me again since I am the undisputed front running, tried and true, battle tested, and most unflinching Conservative in this local election.

In these recent elections, the Democrats do not run any candidates now because they can easier get their candidates as RINO Republicans, at least that is what I have been told by some former prominent Democrats, ie Democrat Frankie Waters; Democrat Randy Walker, which begs the question to be answered: Who are the Democrats running as RINOs this time around in this 2026 Republican Primary? Additionally: To what extent are the RINOs and the RINO Whisperers in the Beaufort County GOP complicit in give great succour and comfort to these Fake Republicans in this 2026 general election?

Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 6:43 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: If you had told me 22 years ago that we would have had all these RINOs in our political midst at this level of good governing intrusion, I would not have believed it.

Back then, in the party, we still had the RINOs, like then chairman "Hopeless" Van Dorp, who as chairman worked to have me lose in a special election to then Democrat Party Chairman Etles Henries (the Democrat candidate) to relace Conservative Commissioner Carol Cochran, who had hand picked me to as her successor. Hood still likes to remark that in this election, it was the "first time a Republican had won an election in Beaufort County where Stan defeated both the Democrat party chairman and the Republican party chairman in the same election.

And then there was super RINO Jay McRoy standing in my political and governing way, who always liked to remark, in political settings, how he knew how to "work the numbers." My oh my, how "the fruit does not fall far from the tree."

Still, back then, there was a large element of the Beaufort County GOP that I could depend on; not now., and they did not tolerate the long list of RINO pseudo political wannabes that were beginning to emerge as an established class, who would elect their RINO champions, not matter how sorry and non Conservative they all turned out to be.

At least for now that "Forest Woman" is no longer squatting in the RINO encrusted local party's HQ disparaging me at every point possible. That was the 2022 election for the primary and the general election. I wonder: Is that not yet another instance of RINO "Party Disloyalty" as specified by the Party's Plan of Organization?

Since I returned to the board in 2018 ... Again ... The Beaufort County GOP has been no use to me at all - just the opposite - especially during election. Even now as I seek my 8th term as a county commissioner, elected three times as a non incumbent, I sometimes wonder: What RINO plans they have for my demise?

This will be an interesting primary and general election, and 'I will not go quietly into that good night.' That I promise Van Zant.

Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 8:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: Why is it that RINOs despise Adam O'Neal so vehemently?

Commented: Saturday, January 17th, 2026 @ 7:39 pm By: Stan Deatherage

David: The last city council was definitely a "team," and while I am not privy to how the last city council built that "team", it was a "team" nonetheless when they raised taxes 28% in one year.

Beaufort County is 314 years old, and that 28% tax raise for any government "team" within this county, those with the statutory police power of taxation; that exorbitant tax raise must be a record raise ... And it was unconscionable, governmentally feckless, and an incredible sign of gross incompetence.

Nick Fritz and Company will continue to have my unyielding support as long as they endeavor to discover and remedy the local corruption of waste, fraud and abuse.

Commented: Monday, January 12th, 2026 @ 4:24 pm By: Stan Deatherage

RINO Hunter: I agree. There needs to be a reckoning, and then we move on ... But ... Without the same know-nothing people occupying space in leadership positions in the Beaufort County GOP.

That reality has gone on for far too long, doing far too much damage to real Conservatives that well realize that the RINO element will eventually finish off the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, and others like them.

Commented: Sunday, January 11th, 2026 @ 11:01 am By: Stan Deatherage