Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

At the same time corrupt Phil Berger was trying to shut down our local shrimping industry, a company that imports shrimp from Red China was undergoing a big expansion in the Norfolk area. Was crooked Berger on the payroll of the Red Chinese trying to cut out local shrimp production to hand the market to them? "China Phil" Berger needs to be voted out of office.

Beaufort County should never forget that Boss Berger gerrymandered our county into a Democrat senate district to gerrymander Senator Bill Cook out of office. The reason? Bill Cook was the leading Senate figure fighting against the "green energy" boondoggle, a boondoggle that Berger was in cahoots with the speical interests to impose on North Carolina.

Phil Berger is an enemy of eastern North Carolina and an enemy of conservatism. He is more devious and evil than even Marc Basnight thought about being. He is far worse than Basnight, but just as much of a legislative dictator.

Commented: Saturday, August 30th, 2025 @ 11:30 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Our taxpayers should NOT be having to subsidize those in our county illegally through welfare. All we should give them is a plane ticket home. I hope President Trump will audit those states with these waivers and try to claw back the American taxpayer dollars they have squandered on illegal welfare for illegal aliens.

Commented: Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 @ 4:49 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

So much of the "green" agenda is in fact environmentally unsound. Wind and solar electricity are other examples of that.

Commented: Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 @ 8:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is fortunate that NC passed a law against this barbaric practice. I remember when ECU Med School was looking at going into the child genital mutilation business to make money.

Commented: Thursday, August 14th, 2025 @ 8:59 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

It was on the radio today that Maryland is now experiencing rolling blackouts due to wind and solar not providing enough power. Their coal plants are all gone and they have reduced gas plants. This will likely become endemic like it did in the state of South Australia when their Labour Party state government blew up all their coal plants so they could become the "wind superpower". Now rolling blackouts are an everyday occurence and having a home generator is essential, and they have even had their first statewide blackout due to wind farms shutting down due to strong spring storms.

Wind and solar are for morons and ideologues, oh, and also for RINOs Thom Tillis and Micheal Whatley.

Commented: Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 @ 11:18 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Phil Berger is responsible for pushing this loony left climate alarmist BS in North Carolina. One expects liberal Democrats like Roy Cooper to be for it and woke idiots like Duke Energy trying to get their ESG kudos from the left, but a stab in the back to consumers from a supposed Republican like Berger is hard to take. Good thing that he has a primary next year from the popular Republican sheriff of his home county. Throw the bum OUT!

Commented: Monday, August 11th, 2025 @ 9:22 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Lets not forget that Michael Whatley has been a cheerleader for Big Solar which was one of the clients of his Washington, DC lobbying and public relations firm. We do NOT need him in the US Senate. Don Brown is the conservative choice in the GOP primary.

Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2025 @ 7:37 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Washington has a brazen liar for a city manager, who wantonly lied to the citizens when he claimed that the city had not imposed a tax increase this year. In truth, the manager's budget, adopted by a rubber stamp city council, gave city taxpayers a whopping 28% tax increase.

In revaluation years like this one, state law calculates a "revenue neutral" rate, one that would produce the same amount of revenue as the old tax rate based on the increased value of property. Any tax rate above that revenue neutral rate is, by state law as well as by the reality of what taxpayers have to pay, a tax increase.

The county adopted the revenue neutral rate for this year's taxes based on the rate calculated by state law. The City of Washington adopted a rate 28% above the revenue neutral rate. That is a massive tax increase.

Washington's city government is in a sad state of affairs. Not only does the city manager exercise way too much power for a bureaucrat, but the city council is a patheric joke. They are nothing but rubber stamps for Mayor Sadler, nothing but weak "yes men". Between the manager and the mayor, Washington has a Tammany Hall style government.

But the city manager had better watch out. Sadler would love to get rid of him so he can hire the city's first black city manager. With Sadler, it is as much about race as it is about power.

Commented: Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 @ 8:35 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

NC has too many RINOs a/k/a "Undocumented Democrats" who pander to the solar and wind grifters. Berger is just one of them. Thom Tillis is another, as is Tillis' protege Michael Whatley. Whatley's lobbying / public relations firm pushed this solar boondoggle. These people are as big of enemies of the North Carolina consumer as the Democrats are.

Commented: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 @ 10:21 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The LaCivita connection explains a lot. One wonders if he is tied up in the Green New Deal boondoggle like Tillis and Whatley are. I guess NEVER TILLIS has now become NEVER WHATLEY. Whatley is just a warmed over Tillis. Will we ever learn?

Commented: Saturday, July 26th, 2025 @ 10:37 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

It is hard to imagine that the Raleigh-based out of town school board attorney or the local superintendent were not aware that elections were partisan. Were they playing stall ball here to try to gain control of this seat? This is an 8 to 1 Republican board. Isn't having a school board attorney who is chairman of the Durham County DEMOCRATIC Party a conflict of interest? Wouldn't that be a likely motive for him failing to act on this matter for years?

This near-fiasco reeks of political hanky-panky.

Commented: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 @ 1:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

There is a term for those who want "to share in the prosperity of America" with lawbreakers who are illegally in our country. That term is SOCIALIST.

The influx of illegal aliens has contributed a lot to depressing the wages of our own citizens and driving up the housing costs of our own citizens. That has happened in all western countries where the illegal alien moochers have flooded in.

Any honest foreigner would apply to legally immigrate, not sneak across our border. Those Biden let in have included foreigners on the terrorist watch list and also members of multiple violent criminal gangs like MS13 and Tren de Aragua. A rise in illegal immigration in any western country is quickly followed by a rise in crime.

Read the polls, Bill Lee. Americans do not want these moochers in our country.

Commented: Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 @ 1:50 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

We need more cuts to federal spending, but the tariffs are working great and with no inflation.

Commented: Saturday, July 12th, 2025 @ 2:56 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

So Cliff Williams wants to take the lemons given him and Aurora by a rotten school board and make lemonaide out of them by opening a charter school. GOOD FOR HIM. I hope he succeeds in that effort. Beaufort County Schools would then be the loser in their plot against Aurora, because all that state education money would flow to the charter school instead of Beaufort County Schools.

Commented: Friday, July 11th, 2025 @ 10:09 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Cheeseman is building his Washington mega-school with excess capacity. One wonders what his game plan is, and Bath elementary may well be on his target list. I wish we had fewer useful idiots on our school board. Blindly following the bureaucracy makes a really poor excuse for an elected official.

Commented: Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 @ 6:05 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Befuddled, you have a very good point. That boondoggle over the land ownership clearly illustrates the poor management we have in our county schools, and that poor management was just rewarded, from what I'm told, by a big raise and an extension of his contract. I also wonder where the School Board attorney was in all this. Since he he way off in Durham, I suspect they didn't even bother to bring him in on it. Was Cheeseman playing both attorney and real estate appraiser in this farce, neither of which he is qualified or licensed for?

Our school system reminds me of that scene toward the end of the Wizard of Oz, only this time when the dog Toto rips away the curtain, it is Cheeseman in the booth operating the controls of the great and powerful school board.

Commented: Saturday, July 5th, 2025 @ 4:18 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This law will also help reduce housing costs for American citizens. As usual, the lefties run to the radical judges to try to screw things up.

Commented: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 2:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer