Comments by Rino Hunter | Eastern NC Now

Wow! NC Governor Josh Stein is even to the left of California's crazy Gov. Gavin Newsome in his disrespect of America. Newsome is not thumbing his nose at our country the way Stein is by boycotting our 250th anniversary state event. Is someone with such a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome as Stein clearly has mentally competent to serve as governor? Not agreeing with the person holding the office of the presidency is not a valid reason to refuse to participate in events honoring our country's 250th birthday, but then again, polls are showing a large percentage of Democrat voters don't like our country very much either. Clearly, Stein is one of them.

Commented: Saturday, June 20th, 2026 @ 1:23 pm By: Rino Hunter

Pandering to a special interest group like that is typical of Democrat politics. What other special interest groups will she be pandering to, I wonder?

Commented: Friday, June 19th, 2026 @ 10:53 am By: Rino Hunter

It is nice to see Trump endorse the conservative in this one. Dooley is a real worm. Collins has a great conservative voting record.

Trump has been a mixed bag on endorsements. He backed the conservative challengers against RINO incumbents in both Louisiana and Texas, leading to ousting the incumbents, but he saved RINO incumbent Lindsay Graham from a conservative challenge in SC and backed RINO Senate primary candidate Whatley here in NC against the conservative who was running in the primary.

Commented: Monday, June 15th, 2026 @ 11:06 am By: Rino Hunter

Glenwood Antwan Horton heads the DEI program at BCCC. That explains why he is opposed to the nuclear family (a family with father, mother, and children). DEI bureaucrats like Horton are nothing but grifters.

We knew there were two far left grifters on the city council - Tyre and Horton - but what explains Perrault throwing in with them?

Commented: Wednesday, June 10th, 2026 @ 2:32 pm By: Rino Hunter

Just when I had about gotten to the point I could hold my nose for Whatley, a RINO who would be Tillis 2.0, the original Tillis is now making that much more difficult. Roy Cooper is terrible, and I wish we had a real alternative like Don Brown would have been.

Commented: Friday, June 5th, 2026 @ 9:46 am By: Rino Hunter

Randy Walker is a full pledged RINO and full blown liberal, as is his wife on the school board. No question about that, but when it comes to the Senate race, Roy Cooper is just so awful that one has to hold their nose for Whatley. Yeah, Whatley was a bad NCGOP chairman. Yeah, Whatley is closer to Tillis than we would like, but Whatley at least has enough of a political debt to Trump that I cannot see him going against Trump during the next two years, and that is a very critical time period. Don Brown would have been a MUCH better nominee to beat Cooper, but he lost. I hope Don will be running for Attorney General in 2028, but we are stuck with either Whatley or Cooper for Senate in 2026, and Whatley is the lesser of the evils. I very much dislike a "lesser of the evils" choice, but Cooper is so bad, there is just no other viable option this time.

Commented: Monday, June 1st, 2026 @ 6:33 am By: Rino Hunter

These teachers unions always seem up to no good. In December, we will get two teachers union members on our school board. How could GOP primary voters do that?

Commented: Saturday, May 16th, 2026 @ 11:36 am By: Rino Hunter

There should also be criminal complaints filed with the magistrate in these situations. Criminal warrants should be prosecuted against a biological male undressing in a girls locket room with girls present, exposing himself and watching them for 1) indecent exposure, and 2) peeing tom/. Lock them up! And why would the principal who allowed that not be an accessory to those crimes?

Commented: Friday, May 15th, 2026 @ 8:40 am By: Rino Hunter

Calling the NCAE teachers union "communist" is going a bit far. Hinton went overboard there. However they are far left, and there is no doubt about that. An affinity for the world's top communist /socialist holiday is hardly the only example of that. What puzzles me is how the local GOP got saddled with two members of this far left organization as "Republican" nominees for school board.

Commented: Wednesday, May 6th, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By: Rino Hunter

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was spot on when he recently called teachers unions "partisan organizations" when he signed new legislation to crack down on their antics.

Commented: Sunday, May 3rd, 2026 @ 12:59 pm By: Rino Hunter

80% of Americans support the SAVE Act and that turncoat Tillis is still helping block it. He is nothing but an Undocumented Democrat.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 12:04 pm By: Rino Hunter

Josh Stein's leftwing Democrat Party does not tolerate anyone who fails to toe their hard left party line. That includes supporting illegal immigration and illegal alien criminals, as well as transing kids. they are a bunch of radical sickos that North Carolina does NOT need.

Commented: Tuesday, April 28th, 2026 @ 7:08 am By: Rino Hunter

Why would ANY father try to do this to a young child? It is twisted and sick. It looks like this evil nutjob father who is "trans" is trying to force his child to be "trans", too. Hooray for the FBI for saving the child from this awful fate. The Biden regime would not have intervened to save the child.

Commented: Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 @ 6:44 pm By: Rino Hunter

Well, NO, Phil Berger is one of the WORST legislative leaders North Carolina has ever had, a corrupt pay-for-play political boss who constantly sold out to the special interests for campaign payola. He was a one man Tammany Hall. Getting rid of him was one of the finest outcomes in the recent primaries.

Berger did not start out that way. In the early years of the McCrory administration, Berger actually blocked some of McCrory's more liberal maneuvers. Then came the bathroom privacy bill, HB 2, which Berger initially supported and helped pass. Then when the special interests started whining about it, Berger flipped over to the dark side and led the effort to repeal it so biological men can now go into womens' restrooms. After that he stayed on the dark side for the campaign payola the special interests would shower on him. Berger became the driving force behind a whole host of liberal policies; the NC Green New Deal, the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, casinos, stopping key gun rights legislation, banning the NC shrimping industry, etc.. Who even needed Democrats when the special interests had Phil Berger doing their liberal dirty work for them.

Berger was a power bully, a pay-for-play functionary of the special interests, and a disgrace to the Republican Party.

Commented: Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 @ 9:11 pm By: Rino Hunter

Teachers tend to be more Democrat than Republican and more liberal than conservative. Putting retired teachers on school boards is like hiring a fox to guard the hen house. Most of them have an attitude that teachers know better than parents on most issues and that leads to parents concerns being ignored. Our school board is headed down the wrong path with the way two of our GOP primaries came out. One of those retired teachers nominated is actually a longtime Democrat who only recently switched to "Republican" on paper.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 12:35 pm By: Rino Hunter

Perrault pulled the wool over the eyes of everyone; the other members of the Tax Cut Team, the county GOP, and the Conservative Club, all of whom backed him. Soon it may be too late for him to do a course correction and get back with the set of principles he promised the voters. It may already be too late, but the big issue is the budget and taxes. If he returns to his pledges to voters on that, and gets back on the conservative side, he may still have time to make things right with those who voted for him and supported him. If not, he is a totally lost soul. Tyre and the Sadler machine will use him and then toss him aside like yesterday's garbage.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 7:35 am By: Rino Hunter

The Republican National Senatorial Committee has a long record of supporting RINOs in primaries. I would NEVER contribute a nickel to the NRSC as a result. We should give directly to conservative candidates instead. This election cycle, we will get to replace Cornyn and Cassidy with solid conservatives. Hopefully we can replace Lindsay Graham as well.

Trump's endorsements are hit and miss. He did the right thing in Louisiana, but endorsed RINOs for senate races in NC adn SC. He has stayed out of Texas' primary.

Commented: Saturday, April 11th, 2026 @ 9:08 am By: Rino Hunter