Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

In North Carolina the leaders of the climate cult politically have been Roy Cooper and Phil Berger. Both need to be defeated. Also playing a big role is woke utility monopoly Duke Energy. Berger's total rewrite of HB951 is the EU Green Deal on steroids imposed on NC electric ratepayers. Berger is the enemy of NC electric ratepayers.

Commented: Thursday, December 4th, 2025 @ 12:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What we should be outraged at, Tom Campbell, is the treasonous Biden regime allowing illegal aliens to flood our country by not enforcing our immigration laws. All of those in that corrupt administration who were responsible for not enforcing our immigration laws should be jailed. Now, we need to demand that our scofflaw state officials join in the task of getting these invaders out of our country and back where they belong. And it would be nice to put useful idiots like Comrade Campbell on the plane with them.

Commented: Saturday, November 29th, 2025 @ 5:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Bureaucrats should NEVER NEVER NEVER have contracts like this that provide for "buyouts". That includes county managers, city managers, school superintendents, etc. The taxpayer should NEVER be at the mercy of a bureaucrat this way. Employment at will is the standard in the business world, and it should be in the bureaucratic world as well. Bureaucrats should NEVER be "entitled" to a job. If they are not performing, they need to go, just like in the private sector. For state bureaucrats, there are no "buyouts" like this so why should there be for local bureaucrats???? SUE THEM AND GET THE TAXPAYERS MONEY BACK< and that includes suing all of the irresponsible city council members who voted for this banditry.

Commented: Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 @ 2:31 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

How evil Phil Berger is can be shown by what he did to Beaufort County to pass his Green New Deal (HB951). The Green New Deal was opposite the NC Republican platform on energy but it was the top legislative goal at the time of liberal Democrat Governor Roy Cooper, and Berger was the key figure in passing it. The NC Green New Deal will jack up power bills for us all. No Beaufort County conservative should EVER consider voting for anyone connected to ultra-RINO Phil Berger.

The first thing Berger had to do to grease the skids for his Green New Deal was to get rid of its most vocal opponent in the Senate. That was Senator Bill Cook (R-Beaufort), a former utility executive who thoroughly understood all the downsides of "green energy". Berger accomplished that by gerrymandering Cook out of his senate seat. At his direction, Beaufort County was placed in a heavily Democrat and majority black state senate district that Cook or any Republican could not have won, forcing Cook to retire, getting him out of the way for Berger to ram through the Green New Deal.

Berger did not just screw over Cook in that gerrymander. He screwed over all Beaufort County Republicans by putting us in a senate district where we had no meaningful representation. Worst of all, he did it to do a favor for a Democrat governor and a leftwing monopoly special interest that simultaneously screwed consumers.

Berger had a bill from the House (HB951) rewritten at the last minute by a Senate Committee to track the European Union's "Green Deal" but with even more radical provisions. That bill was then slammed onto the Senate floor for a vote with no chance for consumers to organize against it. It was extreme power politics at its worst and showed a total distain for NC citizens.

Commented: Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 @ 11:49 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

IT is good to see conservatives uniting against the climate hoax in Europe. We have too many establishment Republicans like Thom Tillis, Phil Berger, Michael Whatley, and Tim Moore who align too often with the green left.

Commented: Friday, November 14th, 2025 @ 8:30 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Apparently, Mr. Garrison has not kept up with what was happening at Snowden. They made great progress this past year in improving their scores on the state tests, but in spite of this Superintendent Cheeseman in a sudden move put them on the chopping block. While Mr. Garrison was not involved in helping Snowden move forward, Mr. Hickman was. He was in frequent communication with the school and on site to help out. He encouraged other school board members to visit the school to see what was happening there. Mr. Hickman was very engaged in helping Snowden move forward, but Mr. Garrison was not. So how is it that Garrison thinks he can criticize mr. Hickman?

Snowden was lost because we have a faction on the school board that are yes-men or women for the superintendent, and that is what needs to change. Often a superintendent will push for school consolidation because they think it will look good on their resume for their next job. Charles Hickman is a school board member who has stood up for the citizens of Beaufort County. Mr. Garrison was encouraged into this race by a major supporter of the superintendent, so it does not take a rocket scientist to see which side he would be on. That is also likely the reason he did not speak up at the various meetings, because he did not want to challenge Cheeseman's position.

Wasn't Garrison present at the first meeting where the closing of Snowden was first initiated? There was no big crowd then. If he cared about Snowden, instead of playing politics, he would have spoken up then. Instead, he is trying to falsely put blame on somebody who was there working for Snowden, Charles Hickman.

Beaufort County does NOT need another rubberstamp for the superintendent on our school board. We have too many of those already.

Commented: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 4:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That despicable pair of quislings, Phil Berger and Tim Moore have set North Carolina on the same idiot path as New Jersey and California on energy. They sold out both Republicans and North Carolina electric ratepayers to pander to woke energy monopoly Duke Energy and to liberal governor Roy Cooper to totally rewrite and ram though HB 951 to close cheap and reliable coal power plants and move to expensive and unreliable intermittent wind and solar. That is a pure leftwing New Jersey move by Berger and Moore that betrayed North Carolina.

Commented: Monday, November 3rd, 2025 @ 9:03 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

There are economic reasons why Russia and China have funded environmental organizations in the US and it has nothing to do with any love of the environment. It has to do with economic competition. Russia has wanted to hamstring our energy sector, with which it comperes by promoting groups that want to tie it up with regulations and lawsuits, but they seem to have had other things that have taken priority in more recent years. China wants to drive up energy costs for our industries, giving a competitive advantage to their own where cheaper coal fired power is their continuing energy mainstay. They also want to sell us solar panels, of which they are the major worldwide supplier and raw materials for wind turbines.

These five billionaires, on the other hand, are in it purely for ideological purposes. America needs to find a way to shut down all of this politically motivated foreign money coming in.

Commented: Sunday, November 2nd, 2025 @ 5:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The fact that Michael Whatley has no philosophical compass or fixed set of principles is shown by the fact that he and his lobbying / public relations firm worked for the Green New Deal grifters of Big Solar and pushed their own scheme to promote the leftwing ESG litmus test for companies. That is NOT the background we want in a US senator. If you like shifty Mitch McConnel or John McCain, you will love Michael Whatley. He is Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins without the skirt (at least that we know of)>

Commented: Saturday, November 1st, 2025 @ 11:15 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Stan, I think some heavy politics are involved in the school board taking contracts away from prominent Beaufort County Republicans and giving them for higher bids to competitors out of county. As I recall, they took the website contract away from your company and gave it to an out of state company which wanted a lot more money. Then they took away the school grounds contract from a company owned by the finance chairman of the county GOP and gave it, for more money, to a company from Pitt County. I suspect there are more like that but those are just the ones I have heard of. It all looks like political game playing against local Republicans to me.

Commented: Thursday, October 30th, 2025 @ 9:34 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is not surprising about the sea level rise claim. Every scare story from the climate alarmists that has passed the date it was supposed to happen has failed to happen, even a little bit, and there have already been dozens of scare stories that have just failed to happen. They have not been correct even once. The are batting zero on their scare stories. The climate alarmists are Chicken Little on steroids, the biggest grifting doomsday cult in history.

Commented: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 @ 8:50 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Timothy Mellon is indeed a great patriot for this generous act. All patriotic Americans should thank him. And, yeah, lets just see if any of those leftwing billionaires step forward to save Food Stamps the same way.

Commented: Saturday, October 25th, 2025 @ 7:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

From what I am told, conservatives on the board made use of identified violations of President Trump's EO to move to eliminate the gender identity and sexual orientation provisions. The new policy that bans DEI was written and proposed by Board member Steve Rader, seconded by member Charles Hickman, and ended up passing unanimously.

Commented: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 @ 8:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

These protests, though wacky as hell, are protected by the First Amendment, and these bozo billionaires are within their Constitutional rights to throw their money away on them. However, it is good to see them exposed for the anti-American jerks that they are. However, when it comes to funding ANTIFA, they are a terrorist organization, and funding them should result in criminal RICO charges and asset seizures. The starting point should be full audits of Tides and Arabella to see where their money came from and where it went. The enablers of ANTIFA need to be locked up.

Commented: Sunday, October 19th, 2025 @ 8:30 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Fake data and rigged computer models are endemic in the climate alarmist spiel.

Commented: Saturday, October 11th, 2025 @ 1:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That boondoggle with the 4 acres of land they did not actually own that the new school is being built upon, and the half million dollar bandaid that had to be applied to it should be a red flag that maybe everything is not as it should be in Beaufort County Schools finances. I wonder if that is why the local school board member who asks the most financial questions, Stacey Davis, came under attack recently by the school superiintendant?

Commented: Monday, October 6th, 2025 @ 3:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Do we have a local Deep State in Beaufort County and is Cheeseman a kingpin of it?

Commented: Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 @ 4:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer