Comments by Van Zant | Eastern North Carolina Now

I hope Kamala Harris remembers to record this In-Kind campaign contribution from CBS in her campaign finance reports.

Commented: Thursday, October 10th, 2024 @ 9:47 am By: Van Zant

I drove over to BC Republican Headquarters and inspected the signs out front. I didn't see the sign for the Republican candidate for School Board District 5. I did see the sign for the Democrat candidate for School Board District 5. Isn't this kind of abnormal? Maybe it's just me.

Commented: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 @ 10:02 am By: Van Zant

I think this is a very serious issue, but it may even be more serious than we think. Granted, the Beaufort County School Board with a large Republican majority is being legally represented by a lawyer that is Chairman of the Durham County Democrat Party.

Consider the race for North Carolina Superintendent of Schools. Republican Michelle Morrow is being portrayed as a radical by the Democrats. I submit it is the Democrat Mo Green that is the radical. We know that Mo Green headed the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation which is an organization that funded groups that fought to defund the police, rioted in public places, tore down statues and destroyed all manner of property. Mo Green ALSO served as the attorney for Mecklenburg County Schools. Green was later shoehorned into the Guilford County Superintendent position in order to position him for this state race as the teacher union choice for State Superintendent.

Congratulations Beaufort County Republicans. You are officially the dumbest political organization in the history of the world.

Commented: Monday, October 7th, 2024 @ 11:14 am By: Van Zant

It looks like this Democrat Party activist attorney is the Superintendent's attorney. He is supposed to be the Board attorney. On this board of seven Republicans and two Democrats I wonder how many even know their attorney is a Democrat Party activist. Time for the School Board to get a clue as well as a spine.

Commented: Sunday, October 6th, 2024 @ 9:46 pm By: Van Zant

Show me a politician that lies on the magnitude of, Tim at Tiananmen Square (NOT), Tim in the war zone with his military style rifle (NOT), Tim has what rank in the military (NOT), Tim got out of being deployed overseas how? Tim is a liars liar. Tim is a compulsive liar. Tim will say anything, get caught and then say I'm a knucklehead mis-speaker that mis-spoke again. Good grief. I'll bet the dog used to eat his homework when he was in grade school.

Commented: Friday, October 4th, 2024 @ 9:18 am By: Van Zant

I think the Tampon Tim Walz nickname is appropriate, but Tim seems to prefer Knucklehead.

Commented: Thursday, October 3rd, 2024 @ 9:35 am By: Van Zant

I've had teachers confide that their students either type or print. Young grownups conducting business with me admit they cannot read cursive writing. So much for an NC requirement on the subject. I suppose we now need translation pages attached to copies of the founding documents. It seems to be a foreign language for our young folks.

Commented: Sunday, September 29th, 2024 @ 8:52 am By: Van Zant

Hung Cao is an American success story. Tim Kaine is a whacko ultra-liberal politician associated with the Clinton crime family. Kaine's ideology score is one of the most liberal of anyone in the Senate and is very close to what Biden's score was. He typically gets a zero from any group remotely conservative. This will be a race between the votes of real Virginians and those D.C. northern Virginia bedroom town invaders sucking the life out of all regular working folks while doing the bidding of their corporate masters for their own personal gain. God be with Mr. Cao.

Commented: Thursday, September 26th, 2024 @ 9:17 am By: Van Zant

Following up on the ineptitude and actual harm being done by local party activities: For the last several weeks I've been hearing this story about the most recent atrocity being performed by an officer of the BC Republican Party. Keep in mind this gang has been running the official party as if it were a PAC for a number of years. For some time now, I have heard some of the nasty stories. During the municipal elections I heard that vice chairwoman myself disparaging several Republican school board members - I voted for one of the people she seems to hate so much and took offence to her vitriol. I've continued to hear lots more of it from other credible people witnessing it being spewed out in public.

This latest story went so far that I figured it just couldn't be true, until I started hearing from some of the people involved. It seems that a family member of a Republican school board candidate entered Republican HQ and encountered the 2nd vice chairperson of the party. This is the person that generally runs the office open to the public. This Jody VC person told the family member that they should vote for Hodges, the Democrat in the race and not the Republican. Think about that. This party officer is at Republican HQs badmouthing the Republican candidate for School District 5 and recommending the Democrat!

Aren't there any checks on this person? Is the committee at large alright with this party disloyalty behavior? None of the other officers think something should be done? I didn't want anything to do with these people well before this, but they are so far rogue now that there is nothing redeemable left. They should be avoided like the plague.

Commented: Friday, September 20th, 2024 @ 10:45 am By: Van Zant

Linsey Davis and David Muir equate to very, very low standards of journalism. No integrity at all.

Commented: Tuesday, September 17th, 2024 @ 10:10 pm By: Van Zant

Woke fanatics seem to be clueless about the history of journalism. No surprise. They also need a professional to tell them what a woman is.
Regarding the ABC rigging of the debate, honest people of all political stripes can see what happened. Only an idiot or an extreme partisan would deny it.

Commented: Tuesday, September 17th, 2024 @ 9:35 am By: Van Zant

I almost gagged on my coffee when the Chameleon indignantly said, "Tim Walz and I are both gun owners!" She's also the same wench that has stated numerous times that she wants a national gun ban like what they have in Australia. Even the morons can see through that hypocrisy, but she probably did pick up a few imbeciles and a good number of idiots with that stupid remark.

Commented: Friday, September 13th, 2024 @ 2:07 pm By: Van Zant

All I care about is if David Hudson is a conservative. How about the two Republicans running. Are they conservative? The two Democrat board members seem to be nice people, but how can anyone be a Democrat these days? Maybe we need an interview with candidates. That goes for county commission candidates too.

To be more clear on school grades. It depends on if you are grading on a curve or not. Clearly, the schools get a very generous curve when compared to students.

Commented: Thursday, September 12th, 2024 @ 11:29 am By: Van Zant

Somebody send the video over to those fake fact checkers over at ABC!

Commented: Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 @ 10:19 pm By: Van Zant

The public should be aware that some of the comments on this site are part of an ongoing personal intra party battle. Some of the information presented here needs to be taken in that context. For example:
1. School scores below 40 are counted as an F for schools and are typically counted as an F for students under 60.
2. I do not know if HR has ever been a Democrat, but he obviously has not been a Democrat more than any Republican on the ballot. In this election that would be Randy Walker. Including this election with the one upcoming in two years that would be Frankie Waters.
3. Concerning some of the statements regarding school board members taking orders form a PAC, that all seems to be delusional.
I'm sure there is more, but I'm too lazy and uninterested to look for it. We have plenty of important legitimate issues in this upcoming election. The personal hatred just muddies the water for people trying to inform themselves and turns off many of us that are keeping up with issues. Even though I am very interested in my community, this is the single reason I want nothing to do with local parties.

Commented: Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 @ 9:50 am By: Van Zant

When anti-free speech fanatics stoop to calling George Orwell a loon maybe it is because the fanatics aspire to be Big Brother.

Commented: Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 @ 8:52 am By: Van Zant

ROTFLMAO We actually have people that are not aware of the Sonoran Desert! Poor education allows people to fall for anything and everything.

Commented: Saturday, September 7th, 2024 @ 9:48 pm By: Van Zant