Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Concerned Taxpayer: I am your audience, and I understand your point.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 3:36 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Vant Zant: 'If one cannot dazzle them with brilliance, they can always baffle them with B.S.'

In what I do (actually everything in my worklife), and what Hood does (actually everything in Hood's worklife), there are technical parameters that must be dealt with to get things done, while staying out of trouble.

In my governing work-life, since coming back on the board of county commissioners, is trying to get things done as a Real Republican, while in the minority serving against 5 Democrats from 2018 to 2022, and now against 4 Democrats since 2022 until now. Alternatively, the constant parameter that Beaufort County GOP RINOs and RINO Whisperers advocate is to provide great advantage and succour for the Democratic RINOs serving the Center-Left here in Beaufort County.

For the Democratic Socialists, they have stopped running candidates because the local GOP does that for them; a salient fact that the Beaufort County GOP refuses to recognize.

Commented: Thursday, April 16th, 2026 @ 11:58 am By: Stan Deatherage

Jeff: Max did run as a team with Nick and Joe. If Joe Davis is an "Independent," he is one of the most highly tuned Independents that I have ever come across.

Steve: You are right about spreading the search parameters regarding a manager. If I am ever in a situation where I am partly (as a minority member) in control of hiring a manager, I will push for this dual approach to finding that good manager.

Commented: Thursday, April 16th, 2026 @ 8:24 am By: Stan Deatherage

"Real Conservative" is a misnomer for any RINO that usurps the good work done by Real Republicans, who worked to limit government, by lowering spending and eliminating corruption, waste fraud and abuse. "Real Conservative" you do the Republican Party a disservice by masquerading as what you are not: You are NOT "Real," as you are here hiding behind an alias, and you are NOT a "Conservative" as you only support RINOs in local elections. This is the MO of the local GOP, and that notariety is widespread, as was confirmed to me often during the 1st District Convention held last Saturday.

Taxpayers of Beaufort County: If your taxes went up far too much last year, it is because of petty frauds, like the fake "Real Conservative," who operate in a corrupt manner within the Beaufort County GOP to only support RINOs, and possibly RINO Whisperers in local elections; those fake Republicans that vote for every spending increase, and support every tax increase, and that is why the fraud, announcing herself as "Real Conservative," considers Commissioner Hood Richardson an "ineffective Republican," which he certainly is not; never was; never will be.

Commented: Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 @ 9:47 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Truth Be Told: I attend the meetings to make a difference, but the difference is impossible when RINO corruption gets in the way of actually having a real meeting, where the work gets done, and right now the so-called Beaufort County GOP is doing NOTHING to aid real Republican candidates in the upcoming elections; for instance - getting out the vote in the recent primary, where the Republican Party here in Beaufort County did absolutely NOTHING.

I, and other keen observers, could easily argue that the planned complacence by the local GOP aided in hard-working Representative Kidwell losing his primary, and school board incumbents, like competent Steve Rader, being replaced due to an onslaught of Democrats switching to Unaffiliated to pick the Republican nominees to serve as our candidates in the general election. One has to reckon: How many of these Democrats-turned-Unaffiliated-taking-Republican ballots barrelled to the polls to vote for Keith Kidwell, or Steve Rader, or Travis Martin, or Stan Deatherage or Charles Hickman (with only Hickman and Deatherage surviving the primary)?

NO, there is little difference being made in every stretch of the political /governing paradigm by Beaufort County GOP, in which their obvious plan appears ambivalence, or worse, toward all local candidates waxing conservative.

Commented: Tuesday, April 14th, 2026 @ 6:49 pm By: Stan Deatherage

In contrast to the City of Washington's hustle to bring forth a new city manager, Beaufort County's Government has also tentatively selected a new county manager, and it is my understanding that the prospective county manager candidate has agreed to the negotiated terms offered by a consensus of the Beaufort County Commissioners

The actual public reveal of said candidate, and probable finalizing vote in the affirmative of that selection will be accomplished at a future public meeting, where all will be publicly divulged, and a public vote taken in hopes of a successful conclusion of a process that will take over 8 months to conclude from start to finish.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 10:02 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Rational Observer: Are you whining about The Hood because he was unsuccessful in winning over the RINOs? Winning over Beaufort County RINOs is an impossible task. This I know from tremendous experience, and I am not Hood, so don't throw Hood in your tiny box of 'Hood just does not kiss up enough to our favored RINOs on the Beaufort County Commission.'

Commented: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 @ 10:30 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Bill: The problem for the City Council in hiring so quickly without deliberating anywhere near enough is multi-fold; however, the most important piece to that puzzle is that if the guy does not work out, it becomes very expensive to the taxpayers to send him packing because of the contract that they will all sign giving such an elaborate severance package, which is becoming the norm in hiring managers.

I hear it will be grand in scale; just like the last guy.

Commented: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 @ 1:48 pm By: Stan Deatherage

There are NO moderate Democratic Socialists if one takes the time to consider their voting records.

The leaders within the Democratic Socialists are liars, thieves, and Non Patriot things bent on one maxim: To deceive the public, and educate them to the point of incredible ignorance.

The electorate, writ large, must self-educate themselves to the point of understanding what is truly real, and rid themselves of these political leeches, or our Republic will not survive.

Commented: Thursday, April 9th, 2026 @ 7:12 am By: Stan Deatherage

To the new City of Washington Council majority: You should take your time; catch your governing breath; better learn your jobs, and do not rush into making a terrible decision that you can not extricate yourselves from without further damaging your terrible financial position.

Commented: Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 @ 8:19 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Great information Steve.

The "Non Patriot Left" is a phrase I coined to describe incontrovertible non patriot Democratic Socialist politicians here in our Representative Republic, who are decidedly non patriot in scope. I reckon all nations have politicians who are just non patriotic as America's "Non Patriot Left."

Commented: Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 @ 10:25 am By: Stan Deatherage

I know of Nigel; however, I did not realize that he had become this viable.

Can he form a government?

Commented: Saturday, April 4th, 2026 @ 7:55 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The United States fundamentally needs a long series of seriously smart politicians (which we have the beginnings of NOW) serving our Good People by employing the foundational support of our Founders greatest gift - The United States' Constitution - and once we get ourselves fully straightened out, by first overhauling our incredibly misguided education industry, we should and could start cherry picking our neighbors to audition them to become our next states.

Alberta, Greenland and Cuba come to mind. Maybe one day Mexico to finally secure our southern border, and fully win the real War on Drugs.

Commented: Saturday, April 4th, 2026 @ 10:03 am By: Stan Deatherage

I am going to offer a counter argument on the real population of Beaufort County: It is growing. How do I know this?

I have estimated a great increase traffic, and the electorate roles of registered voters, which suggest to me that between 57,000 and 64,000 humans, including Illegals, actually live in Beaufort County.

If a true census was performed, I believe that difference in population would shrink.

Commented: Thursday, April 2nd, 2026 @ 11:01 am By: Stan Deatherage

Ashley: Nope, not me. This is all Hood, or the Beaufort Observer team, which is a separate entity from me - Eastern NC NOW.

I currently have plenty on my plate, and do not need any "saving," especially since my "ilk" respect the fact that I have never voted to increase wasteful spending, or taxes in the 25 budgets that I have participated in as a Beaufort County Commissioner, a reality that no other Beaufort County Commissioner in the history of Beaufort County can claim, except one other than myself ... And, that would be Commissioner Richardson - The Hood (29 budgets governing as a Conservative).

Eastern NC NOW allows all written positions here, and will allow the well considered position of the Beaufort County GOP whenever it wishes to come clean with all that needs to be told to this publication's readership ... Just to set the record straight, once and for all.

Just a word of advice, as someone who has won this seat seven times as an governing advocate for my Constituents, your false flag comment - "You two have allowed the people to have their taxes doubled or even tripled in many cases" - regarding my commitment to properly representing my constituents suggests here that you are intellectually removed from the truth, and that is a poor position for a candidate to place themselves in if they are truly serious in the honest debate to gain the right to serve the good people of Beaufort County.

Commented: Tuesday, March 31st, 2026 @ 12:23 am By: Stan Deatherage

This sorry story is a bitter pill to swallow.

Commented: Monday, March 23rd, 2026 @ 8:23 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Big Bob: All smart people know that Non Patriot Leftists need public money to continue the corruption wheel rolling so that can keep their Democratic Socialist Party viable, so DO NOT believe that Right thinking people will every consider Leftists' comments regarding the national deficit, in a corrective sense, credible.

Commented: Saturday, March 21st, 2026 @ 10:50 am By: Stan Deatherage