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Commented on Queen Garris Shoots Herself In The Other FootThere is too much focus on this site of the "inside baseball" of what is going on in the local Republican Party. Voters care about who is going to reduce our taxes and how they are going to get a county commission majority to do that.
Commented: Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 @ 8:10 am
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Commented on School districts and lower courts keep defying SCOTUS to trans kids against parents rightsThat explains what I saw from Carolyn Walker and her husband on primary election day at Chocowinity Fire Station, Conservative Voter. My guess was right. Carolyn Walker was very busy running around smearing her board colleague Rader while her husband Randy was doing the same thing on her board colleague Hickman I concluded that there was something that had them worked up into a tizzy. Do the Walkers have an LGBTQ person in their family or as a close friend? ?
Commented: Sunday, March 15th, 2026 @ 8:05 am
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Commented on School districts and lower courts keep defying SCOTUS to trans kids against parents rightsOut of curiosity, who were the local school board members involved? I'll bet I can guess one of them.
Commented: Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 1:20 pm
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That background on Carolyn and Randy Walker is interesting. I had no idea there was that much venom on the school board until I saw them in action at Chocowinity Fire Station badmouthing two of Carolyn's school board colleagues for hours. Apparently they kept up their rants against Hickman and Rader later at the Board of Elections. If I had not been there working for a candidate in a different race, I don't think I would have believed that an elected official and her husband would be running down colleagues of the same party so viciously.
There are comments about ideological differences, but what I observed appeared to be more personal than ideological. I guess it could be both. I have never watched the school board meetings on TV. Is there as much personal animosity on display there as on the county commission?. It looks to me that Mrs. Walker has as big a chip on her shoulder as anyone on the county commission from what I witnessed election day.
Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 11:08 am
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There is more to those School Board races than networking with Armstrong. I worked as a volunteer in a race for a different office at Chocowinity Fire Station where Gilead and Chocowinity voted. School Board member Carolyn Walker and her husband County Commissioner Randy Walker actively worked the voters for the opponents of Carolyn's board colleagues Charles Hickman and Steven Rader for much of the day. Carolyn Walker was working against Rader and Randy Walker against Hickman. Both were not only promoting the opponents but actively smearing the incumbents. I did not see that level of negative campaigning from any other candidate.
Today, I talked to a friend who was at the Board of Elections as the votes were announced. I am told the Walkers were very loud in smearing both Hickman and Rader at that event. This type of behavior by the Walkers is uncalled for. .
Commented: Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 @ 8:49 pm
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