Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

May primaries were traditional in NC until establishment Republicans in the legislature changed it to March to protect incumbents in primaries. A March primary knocks out lots of campaign time due to the Christmas holidays, puts the primary before the public festivals where rivals have good opportunities to contact voters, and puts door to door campaigning in cold weather season where voters do not want to spend time at the door talking to candidates. The incumbents benefit from existing name recognition and the early date makes it much for difficult for primary challengers to make inroads. It was a rotten, dishonest, and corrupt move by the establishment Republicans for their own political benefit and it was done in an underhanded manner with a last minute "committee substitute" change in another bill where GOP voters and activists were blindsided. I don't mind the court moving the primary to May nearly as much as I did the legislature moving it to March a few years ago. In terms of a level playing field for primary candidates, May is a MUCH better time to hold the primary.

Commented: Thursday, December 9th, 2021 @ 12:15 pm By: John Steed

Two races where conservatives are badly needed are the local State Senate district and the local congressional district.

The state senate district is brand new with an inherited RINO incumbent who has never run in the majority of it and only run in one cycle in part of it. It is therefore wide open. The incumbent, Jim Perry, is a RINO who services the special interests and cares little about the average voter. Perry is in the hip pocket of the wind and solar grifters, Big Medicine, and Big Pharma among others. He is bought and paid for as his campaign reports clearly show. Perry was a player in imposing the Green New Deal on NC and was pushing the Obamacare Medicaid expansion just as hard as he could. Conservative voters badly need another choice in the primary.

Greg Murphy recently voted with the Democrats (and against the majority of congressional Republicans) to build a federal database on who has been vaccinated for Covid and who hasn't, a huge invasion of medical privacy that is very prone to misuse. Murphy has also voted in favor of "red flag laws" that are an attack on gun rights and for "cancel culture" attacks on our history. This will be a tougher race than state senate because the district has not changed much and Murphy is more established in it.

Commented: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 9:50 am By: John Steed

Google also tracks and records your searches and sells that data to others. This is a huge invasion of privacy, and a good reason to NEVER use Google. DuckDuckGo offers the more honest Bing searches and with privacy protections against tracking or recording your searches. DuckDuckGo is the way to go. NEVER GOOGLE.

Commented: Saturday, November 27th, 2021 @ 12:32 pm By: John Steed

As a seafood lover, this is great news. Those fishermen had better watch Bob Steinburg, however. Steinburg is in the hip pocket of the wind and solar energy grifters, and will be pushing those offshore wind turbines that are so damaging to the fishing industry.

The CCA is an elitist and radical environmentalist special interest group. Who is their right mind would listen to them?

Then there is the NC Wildlife Federation backing them. This a group that has been totally missing in action on real wildlife issues. They ought to be out there opposing the wind turbines that slaughter millions of birds and bats and destroy wildlife habitat. One wonders who controls that group and its agenda.

Commented: Saturday, November 20th, 2021 @ 9:45 am By: John Steed

Why does BCN feel the need for a token leftist on its site? Tom Campbell is left wing hack and always has been. Here he is flacking for Roy Cooper's demand for Obamacare Medicaid expansion, and he does it dishonestly, failing to accept that the federal portion of the cost was intended to be temporary, and the state's taxpayers will be left holding the bag at some point. The BCN might as well give AOC a column here as that lefty twit Tom Campbell.

Commented: Saturday, November 13th, 2021 @ 8:20 am By: John Steed

Biden's fake "infrastructure" bill promotes the Green New Deal, although not nearly as devastatingly as the NC RINOs HB951 does. The promotion of wind and solar over conventional power sources does two things that reality give China an advantage over us. One is that China manufactures much of that wind and solar equipment and provides the raw materials for them, much of it even with slave labor. Second is that wind and solar is more expensive and less reliable than conventional electricity, giving Chinese manufacturers an inherent advantage on costs over ours. China has hundreds of coal fired power plants under development, since they want cheap and reliable power for themselves.

Commented: Friday, November 12th, 2021 @ 8:53 am By: John Steed

Climate alarmism is the other edge of the globalist sword. They are driving our energy prices into the stratosphere with their policies, which will crush the middle class. We had a bunch of sellout Republicans in the legislature led by Senate President Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore just impose the Green New Deal on North Carolina by crooked non-transparent methods. That is all part of totalitarian ideologue Klaus Schwab's Great Reset.

And look at Biden, fake Conservative Boris Johnson (or should he be called Boris Corbyn?), and Justin Trudeau all using Schwab's slogan "Build Back Better". Or course they downplay another Schwab slogan - "You will own nothing and you will be happy".

Commented: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 @ 6:19 pm By: John Steed

Meanwhile, the other "Lets Go Brandon" rap, from rapper Bryson Gray has become the number one song downloaded on I-tunes, even though it has been banned by both YouTube and Instagram.
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Commented: Sunday, October 24th, 2021 @ 7:12 pm By: John Steed

Governor Matt Bevin lost the Southern heritage vote, which probably cost him reelection, by taking down a statue of Kentucky native son Jefferson Davis on the Capitol grounds. That made him part of the cancel culture against Southern history. Southern heritage organizations actively urged their supporters to vote for a third party candidate when Bevin ran for reelection. Bevin moved to Kentucky from elsewhere and was tone deaf to local concerns. His reelection defeat was self inflicted.

Here in North Carolina, we have a very similar politician, Pat McCrory who moved here from the north and also made a major cancel culture move against southern heritage as governor. That is one of many blunders that make McCrory the least electable of the three major GOP US Senate candidates. While McCrory lost a bunch of Southern heritage voters in his reelection, other blunders cost him even bigger chunks of the GOP base.

Commented: Thursday, October 14th, 2021 @ 9:22 pm By: John Steed

The back story on the "poster boy" for the alleged threats to school boards is a chilling tale, but not against him. It was on Glenn Beck's radio program this morning. This was the guy hauled out of the Loudon County School Board in handcuffs.

What happened was his daughter had been raped in a school bathroom by a boy who sometimes wore a dress to school and said he was "transgender". When he went to the school, the school personnel called the police on HIM not the rapist. He went to the hospital with his daughter, got the rape kit done which substantiated the rape. However, the school system went into full cover up mode. He attended the school board meeting, was at the microphone about to blow the whistle on what happened to his daughter due to their insane bathroom policies when a leftwing activist came up and made a derogatory statement about his daughter. As many parents would in that situation, he went off on the leftwing activist. That gave the rotten school board an opportunity to have him hauled out in handcuffs and spread that all over the media.

ANY school board that allows boys in the girls bathrooms or shower rooms is putting girls in danger. Such school boards need to be voted out of office. And the pro-pedophile Biden regime needs to be thrown out of office.

It is also telling that the leader of the campaign that got Mecklenburg County, NC to adopt the bathroom ordinance requiring letting men in womens restrooms was himself a convicted child molester.

Commented: Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 @ 10:02 am By: John Steed

Leftwing Campbell is little more than a Roy Cooper cheerleader, and the apparent token liberal on this site. He does not get the real problem with all "committee substitutes" of HB951. By surrendering to the climate alarmists and prematurely closing coal fired power plants, they will send our electric rates into the stratosphere. Wind and solar are expensive and unreliable. Cooper's extremism will cost NC ratepayers dearly if he gets away with it, and sadly, surrender monkey Phil Berger (or should it be Thunberger) looks like he will cave in to Cooper on this environmental extremism.

Commented: Wednesday, October 6th, 2021 @ 10:38 am By: John Steed

Now a female US army soldier has been sexually assaulted by a group of Afghan refugees / rapefugees at Fort Bliss, where the Afghans are being housed after arriving on Biden's evacuation flights. dailycaller.com

Commented: Friday, September 24th, 2021 @ 7:26 pm By: John Steed

Hopefully parents will sue these idiots on the school board to stop the unnecessary and useless mask mandates in the schools. Parents in Wake County are already doing so:
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Commented: Thursday, August 19th, 2021 @ 8:09 am By: John Steed

How about letting Dementia Joe go first? He needs to agree to voluntarily disarm his own Secret Service detail before he starts calling to take away anyone else's guns.

Commented: Friday, July 23rd, 2021 @ 5:30 pm By: John Steed

Gingrich is spot on as to the Democrat power grab being an existential threat to our democracy, but Hoff's demonization of the South is way off base. Why do a few conservative writers always seem to parrot the left's attacks on the South? Hoff's statement above is simply false. Maybe Hoff should read the 1860 Republican Party platform. It did NOT call for abolition of slavery in the states where it existed. It only called for keeping slavery out of US territories. Maybe he should read Lincoln's first Inaugural Address in which he stated clearly that he did not intend to seek abolition of slavery in the states where it then existed, and further he endorsed ratification of the Corwin Amendment that would have enshrined slavery in the US Constitution and made it impossible to abolish from the national level. Or he should read Lincoln's letter to the editor of a New York newspaper in 1862 in which he said that his sole goal in the War Between the States was to preserve the union, and whatever position he may end up taking on slavery would be determined by what he thought could best accomplish that end. Or maybe Hoff should read Jefferson Davis' letter to his wife Varina after he resigned from the US Senate in 1861 in which Davis states that slavery was "a doomed institution" and that the secession of the southern states would hasten its end whether or not they were successful in sustaining their independence. Or he should read the comments of British anti-slavery leader Charles Dickens, the famous novelist, who described the north's contention to be fighting against slavery as "specious humbug designed to disguise the north's desire for economic control of the southern states". Most importantly, he should read Sir Winston Churchill's chapter on the causes of the war in his book "The Great Republic", a history of the US. Churchill attributes the principle cause of the war to a final rupture of a longstanding tension between two competing concepts of government, the concept of a powerful central government espoused originally by Alexander Hamilton, and represented in the 1860s by the north, and the concept of limited government espoused originally by Thomas Jefferson and represented in the 1860s by the South. While the most important positive outcome of the war was the end of slavery, the most important negative outcome of the war was the crushing of limited government. Jefferson Davis, in his book "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" correctly predicted the enormous accumulation of power in the federal government that would result from the South's loss of the war.

Commented: Friday, July 16th, 2021 @ 10:10 am By: John Steed