Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

The rumblings I heard did not specify the nature of the threat, but if it were a possible boycott, a common tactic of the left, then beating a hasty retreat would be the path of least resistance.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 6:24 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Perrault letting himself get sucked into Trye's war with Bobby Roberson, the only insider in city government I trust, was the first sign of a problem. Tyre fanning the flames of a split between Davis and Perrault was the biggest problem, and both of them got suckered into that situation. Then they go and hire a career bureaucrat with a questionable history and pay him more than a US Senator to be a city manager of a town of under 10K population. That scoundrel Tyre has played them like a fiddle..

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 12:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Rep. Cunningham's move makes perfect sense. The black population is much more highly impacted on jobs and housing by illegal aliens than the white population. What does not make sense is the other black legislators staying on the Democrat plantation on this issue.

Commented: Saturday, April 25th, 2026 @ 1:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

According to their website, this woke "Scholastic" group is holding one of their "book fairs" at John Cotton Tayloe Elementary School here in Beaufort County this week.

Commented: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 @ 8:17 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I concur that the vote on budget / taxes will be Perrault's last chance to get right with the voters who put him in office. After that, his defection to the dark side of Washington politics will be the end of his political career. He still has a chance to save it, but it is getting down to the short rows. The Sadler machine is a corrupt tax and spend monstrosity. Does he really want to align with that?

Tyre was clever in promoting a personality split between Davis and Perrault, but Perrault ought to have the brains to figure out that he is being used.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 11:51 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wind and solar electricity means our rates will go up, as they already have thanks to Democrats and RINOs pushing this nonsense. It is the reason that wind and solar obsessed Germany pays three times the residential electric rates that we do. It is a financial disaster for ratepayers as well as an environmental disaster.

Commented: Thursday, April 16th, 2026 @ 1:12 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What Washington needed as a city manager was someone with a sharp pencil able to cut through all the bloat and waste, cut spending, and cut taxes. We need someone with a good track record of doing just that. Instead, they give us a guy who is clearly a bureaucrat's bureaucrat. That is what Washington does NOT need. We have had way too much spending under the previous regime and a lousy city manager who was a big part of the problem.

Tyre was also a big part of the problem that got us in this mess, and any elected official who kisses his ass is absolutely worthless.

This is all so sickening.

Commented: Friday, April 10th, 2026 @ 2:32 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The rats are leaving the sinking SS Global Warming. Gates and Fink are a pretty ugly but big pair of rats.

Commented: Sunday, April 5th, 2026 @ 8:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Great news! Berger needed to go. He has been the kingpin of a corrupt pay-for-play system in Raleigh. But watch out, there are very corrupt cronies of Berger, particularly the establishment hack Brent Jackson, angling to take the senate leadership and continue Berger's corrupt policies. The pay-for-play special interests also just bought several House seats, including our own 79th district.

Commented: Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 @ 8:10 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Illegal aliens are a huge burden on the American taxpayer, and education is a big part of that. It is time taxpayers got some relief from that burden.

Commented: Thursday, March 19th, 2026 @ 8:21 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The soap opera going on within the local Republican Party is a distraction from what really matters. That is electing a conservative county commission that will do something about our taxes. We also need to reelect our sheriff and state senator. We have already lost our state representative to the special interests' sock puppet and the school board appears hopeless.

Whatever needs to be done in the local Republican organization can be attended to the next time they have a convention to elect officers, but we have something more immediate we have to deal with, called an election, and its consequences matter a lot more to our taxpayers.

Commented: Sunday, March 15th, 2026 @ 10:12 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

While many conservative Democrats have legitimately joined the GOP, there are also a lot of opportunists like Frankie Waters, Randy Walker, and Carolyn Walker. These people care nothing about Republican principles, just about power.

Commented: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 6:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Sorry, Washingtonian, but the only ones going to get representation from Armstrong are the special interests in Raleigh that dumped half a million dollars into an independent campaign to buy him the seat. That is who he owes, BIG TIME, and who he will represent. If you watched his campaign, his own interests were clearly tunnel vision on one issue, Big Ag, so that is the other group he will represent. Anybody else? Not so much.

You are clearly more focused on petty internal political party matters, not the big picture of conservative principles. You and Phil Berger are obviously both overjoyed that the strongest voice of conservatism in the General Assembly will be silenced by the crooked special interests.

Commented: Friday, March 6th, 2026 @ 8:42 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This issue all comes down to the special interests versus the people. If a company produces a product that causes cancer, they ought to have to compensate the victims. Kidwell and most Republican stood for that principle. A small group of special interest oriented politicians stood with the special interests. Dixon and Traxler are two of those, and Armstrong agrees with them.

It was not just Kidwell. It was most Republicans, who stood with average citizens and against protecting special interests. The chemical company tried the same thing in the US Congress, and in spite of a few special interest types, most Republicans refused to protect the special interests. They tried it in most states, but only suckered two states out of 50. In North Carolina, the Republican House Caucus overwhelmingly said NO to this special interest legislation.

Armstrong has a huge conflict of interest here. The chemical company involved is Monsanto, and its successor. Armstrong has extensive business dealings with Monsanto's seed division, growing genetically modified seeds for them. Armstrong has refused to reveal that conflict of interest to voters.

Roundup may be a danger beyond just employees on farms and their neighbots. Research in Florida has found Roundup in bread on grocery store shelves. It has also been marketed for home use..

Commented: Sunday, March 1st, 2026 @ 12:46 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

That plot to kill our shrimping industry was appalling. That video really tells the story. Sen. Bobby Hanig and Representative Keith Kidwell deserve our thanks for standing up to the insiders and defeating them. Those same people who tried to kill our shrimping industry are now hard at work pushing their special interest guy Darren Armstrong. We do not need to turn over our legislative seat to the special interests.

Commented: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 @ 10:40 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The city has always done transfers from the electric fund, putting the profits into the city budget. The problem with excessive taxes is the spendthrift nature of the corrupt Sadler regime. Spending is the problem and a meatax needs to be taken to the spending side. Taxpayers cannot afford Sadler-level spending.

Commented: Friday, February 20th, 2026 @ 11:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

We need to watch out on this here in North Carolina because the RINOs led by Phil Berger put us on this path, too, with the total Senate rewrite of HB951 a few years ago. It sets CO2 targets even more severe than the European Union's "Green Deal". Phil Berger gave NC a Green New Deal that is worse than Europe's. He is AOC without the skirt.

That is why I am really pulling for the primary defeat of Berger next month and the primary defeat of all of his affiliated candidates like Carren Armstrong here.

Commented: Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 @ 12:38 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer