Comments by Conservative Voter | Eastern NC Now

Where does Washingtonian get all her absurd fantasies? This one is as wacky as her claim that Armstrong contributed to a Republican group that gave to Kidwell, which was revealed to be a lie by the online records of the NC Board of Elections. Of course, someone provably fed her that lie instead of her just making it up herself.

Again, if you look at the actual records, this latest smear by Washingtonian is clearly disproved. If any legislator was controlled by lobbyists, you would see it in the campaign finance reports. For example if Duke Energy "owns" a legislator, they will give them the max but if they just want to put out some money so maybe he or she will at least give the lobbyist the courtesy of listening to them, then they give a few hundred to one thousand. If they giving none at all, then that means they have concluded that a legislator will not even give their lobyyist the time of day. I use Duke Energy as an example because they are one of the biggest purchasers of legislative favors.

Kidwell has, in fact led the charge against some of the largest special interest groups that were funding legislators. Last term that was the casino lobbyists. Kidwell and the Freedom Caucus blocked their casino legislation. Many legislators were on the receiving end from casino interests, but not Kidwell.

Some committee chairmen are bought and paid for by special interests that deal with their committee. Not Kidwell. He is chairman of the Banking Committee. Banks have a lot of well funded PACs, but look on Kidwell's reports and you will not see contributions from those banking PACs. That is the best evidence there is that he cannot be bought because the bank PACs do not even try.

Now if you want a special interest candidate, that would be Darren Armstrong who is all about the Big Ag agenda and nothing else, and a Big Ag PAC is mailing out postcards trying to buy the seat for him. Even more, he seems to be in bed with an out of state chemical company that wants legislation to prevent people suing them over a cancer causing chenical the company produces. RINO Jimmy Dixon, who recruited Armstrong to run had introduced a bill to protect that chemical company from lawsuits by North Carolinians who were injured by their product. Dixon was doing the bidding of that special interest and they are mad at Kidwell because he was one of those who stood up for citizens and stopped that special interest bill.

Commented: Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 @ 6:35 pm By: Conservative Voter

Darren Armstrong seemed pretty allergic to talking about real issues at the GOP candidate forum, too. His website is totally issue-free. "Stealth candidate" is a good description. He wants us to buy "a pig in a poke".

Commented: Saturday, January 31st, 2026 @ 7:03 pm By: Conservative Voter

Washingtonian, that is exactly the type of blather that the establishment ALWAYS spews. Armstrong's old buddy liberal Democrat kinppin Marc Basnight could have easily said the same. Armstrong is an establishment hack, and so, apparently is Washingtonian. No wonder the Raleigh RINOs got him in the race. He would be a perfect puppet for them in Raliegh, not a fighter for conservative principles like Kidwell. Armstrong would not recognize a conservative principle if one jumped up and bit him on the ass. Anyone who would write four figure checks to the likes of Marc Basnight is NOT NOT NOT a conservative. PERIOD.

If you are voting "anybody but Kidwell": because you have your panties in a twist over his personality, why don't you just admit it?

Commented: Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 @ 9:43 am By: Conservative Voter

In North Carolina this primary season, conservative legislators are under attack from two groups. Phil Berger, through his point man Jimmy Dixon, is after the six top leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus (actually now just five since one of the Berger / Dixon candidates announced but failed to file). Berger and Dixon want to make the House safe for special interest cramdowns like Shrimpgate, the Green New Deal, the repeal of bathroom privacy laws, etc.

Then there is a statewide group of liberal public school teachers who have switched registration to Republican to try to grab GOP seats by stealth in a primary. I think the nearest one of those primaries is in Onslow county.

It would be really helpful to the conservative cause statewide if Kidwell was free to go help some of the others under leftwing and RINO attack. But, of course, with the challenge from Armstrong, he cannot. So Armstrong's challenge hurts conservatives far beyond the 79th district. In the past, Kidwell has been free to go out and help conservatives beat back challenges in other parts of the state.

John Valley, I do not believe that you have identified the political issues or policies that you support. Are you conservative or establishment?.

Commented: Monday, January 19th, 2026 @ 9:01 pm By: Conservative Voter

Maybe it is time to start indicting these crooked Democrat federal judges for obstruction of justice, or, heck, maybe even treason.

Commented: Friday, January 16th, 2026 @ 10:28 am By: Conservative Voter

While shooting this woman in self defense was clearly justified, it is more satisfying to wound them and then see them prosecuted in federal court for assault with t deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer. Having these nutjobs rot in prison may be a more effective deterremt

Commented: Saturday, January 10th, 2026 @ 2:52 pm By: Conservative Voter

Amused - There is always the question with a novice candidate of why they are running. The answer will tell a lot about what kind of public official they will be. Someone who appears from time to time at county commission or city council or school board meetings for public comment will often be a person genuinely interested in the work of that body. The same is true of someone who from time to time goes to Raleigh to speak with legislators on issues. Then there are people who have been active in organizations which regularly communicate with a public body on issues.

The issue of why someone is running gets more complicated when they are recruited to run. Then the issue becomes, what is the agenda of the person or group that recruited the candidate? It is here that a politically inexperienced candidate is more easily controlled by someone else. It may be that the recruiter looked for a politically inexperience candidate for precisely that reason.

When it is Jimmy Dixon doing the recruiting, that should be a huge red flag to conservatives. He is a major Raleigh RINO manipulator.

Commented: Thursday, January 8th, 2026 @ 3:29 pm By: Conservative Voter

Here is another Phil Berger plant on our local ballot, and this one he recruited directly instead of through a surrogate. Berger despises conservative Senator Bobby Hanig who is running for Congress. Hanig played a key role in stopping Shrimpgate, the corrupt Berger sellout of our shrimpers. Berger wanted to throw a monkey wrench in Hanig's campaign, so he recruited Carteret County Sheriff Asa Buck to jump in late in the game.

Berger also has a plant in the race for Hanig's senate seat, and his plant is again a big farmer never involved in politics before who was recruited for him by Jimmy Dixon. Local party leaders recruited conservative retired Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillet to run for that seat, but Berger knows he cannot control Tillet, so he wants his own flunky.

Commented: Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 @ 9:33 am By: Conservative Voter

The lawless Biden regime was covering up a lot in this case. Their "woke" DEI agenda could not handle transgender violence, so they wanted to make it go away. Now, we also know there was a racial angle to the whole thing, too.

Commented: Thursday, January 1st, 2026 @ 2:56 pm By: Conservative Voter

This smells a lot like Buckhout's old campaign team needing a job. They first got her to contact the most recently filed major candidate to try to get them jobs there. Hanig and Rouse and been in the race longer and were less likely prospects as they would already have staffs. When that did not work, they talked her back into the race herself so they would have jobs.

Commented: Monday, December 29th, 2025 @ 8:26 pm By: Conservative Voter

Befuddled, you have it backward. It is those who recruited Armstrong, namely Dixon and the guy he was working for, Berger, who are the tools of the special interests and lobbyists. That is why they tried to put the shrimpers out of business in Shrimpgate and tried a similar stunt against the raw milk farmers. It was the Freedom Caucus, and its chairman Kidwell who blocked the special interests and lobbyists in both matters. Similarly when Berger took lots of money from casino interests to try to corruptly push casinos around the state, it was Kidwell and the Freedom Caucus who shot that down in the House.

Commented: Saturday, December 27th, 2025 @ 8:53 pm By: Conservative Voter

The very LAST person who would listen to a local voter is someone recruited for this race by the RINO establishment in Raleigh, like liberal RINO senate boss Phil Berger and his House operative Jimmy Dixon, and that is Darren Armstrong.

I did not agree on Kidwell's involvement in the Stacey Davis situation, but that is not nearly as important as the disaster it would be to surrender our seat to someone who is recruited by the special interest Raleigh establishement whores Berger and Dixon. There were once rumors of STacey Davis running in this House primary, and if she had it would have been a different ball game because it would have been a race between two local conservatives. We do NOT need a local legislator dancing on the puppet strings of Berger and Dixon, which is exactly what Armstrong would be.

The problem Beaufort County Republicans have had is Democrats opportunistically switching to Republican, running for office, but still thinking like a Democrat. Frankie Waters is a prime example, and guess who that dirtbag is supporting, heavily, for NC House? Darren Armstrong. Other opportunists who have switched on paper but still functioned as Democrats include Randy and Carolyn Walker. Carolyn Walker has even brought another opportunist recent Democrat switcher into the game by recruiting Monica Davis to challenge a conservative school board member. Darren Armstrong was a Democrat and major Marc Basnight supporter when he lived in Hyde County. There is an old saying that the leopard cannot change his spots. Darren Armstong is just another phony like his sidekick Frankie Waters. They are two peas in a leftwing pod.

THere were three honchos at the front of the room in Darren Armstrong's fundraiser, Frankie Waters, Jimmy Dixon, and Steve Troxler. Troxler's political history also shows the shifty types of politicians around Armstrong. In 1998, when conservative Republican US Senator Lauch Faircloth, whose background was in farming, ran for reelection, Troxler was a big player for his liberal Democrat opponent, John Edwards, a snooty Raleigh lawyer. Instead of supporting fellow farmer Faircloth, Steve Troxler was chairman of Farmers for John Edwards. Troxler showed his true colors then and should not be trusted. Troxler has also shown his true colors as an opponent of gun rights, something he has in common with Armstrong recruiter Jimmy Dixon.

Commented: Friday, December 26th, 2025 @ 10:17 am By: Conservative Voter

Also in Georgia, they are finding non-citizens on their voter rolls, including this one who has voted 25 times over the last 30 years: thefederalist.com

Commented: Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 @ 9:53 am By: Conservative Voter

I understand that Beaufort County School Board has been wrestling with the same free speech issue. From what I am told, the more liberal members voted to include an Orwellian term "hate symbol" which is like this "hate speech" scam. From what I hear it was a split vote but I don't know which side prevailed.

President Trump and Vice President Vance have both been very vocal and taken action against the attempts to suppress free speech with this "hate speech" nonsense. I wish all the Republicans on our school board at the very least stood as strongly on free speech. One expects Democrats to oppose free speech like Biden did, but not Republicans.

Commented: Saturday, December 20th, 2025 @ 12:47 pm By: Conservative Voter

So, in tightly gun-controlled Australia, 2 terrorists are able to get rifles and commit a terrorist attack. What does that say about gun control? And the law abiding citizens who were attacked were unable to possess guns to defend themselves. The blood of the victims is at least partially on the hands of the Labor Party gun control wingnuts.

Gun control rarely stops the bad actors from getting guns. All it does is prevent victims from defending themselves. Hitler and Stalin were both big advocates of gun control.

Commented: Sunday, December 14th, 2025 @ 10:46 am By: Conservative Voter

Parents are still having students bring home books like that here in Beaufort County. Our school libraries need to be gone over with a fine tooth comb to remove these inappropriate books.

Commented: Friday, December 12th, 2025 @ 10:31 am By: Conservative Voter

There is a more recent revision to 3100 that Steve Rader introduced as a board member and got passed unanimously. The earlier one that Donald introduced before Steve was on the board was drafted by Steve, who was not a board member at the time, and introduced by Donald. Those revisions were drafted to address citizen concerns that came up during the curriculum process for social studies. Steve has a lot of experience in state government with drafting state government rules which is very useful in drafting of school board policies since they follow the same process. It is also helpful that he is a lawyer. He is probably the only board member with that skill set.

I regret that some conservatives seem to have soured on Donald. Donald has his own set of principles and most of them are conservative. He has been very helpful to the cause when it comes to curriculum.

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 2:37 pm By: Conservative Voter