Beaufort County Commissioner Seeks Re-election

I have a primary for Beaufort County Commissioner. I did not want a primary, but I welcome one nonetheless. On the negative side, a primary diverts some of my attention from my personal business. That, obviously, will not be avoided, because there are now 5 aspiring politicians running for the three Republican nominations vying for the three open commissioner seats in the November 2nd, General Election.

On the other hand, a primary in early May offers me an opportunity to campaign, and, in what ever means offered, meet the public and gauge the overall sentiment and see how it fits it my political agenda - if at all. That's right, I do listen to the people, but I have always done so, and I have not forgotten that voice from 16 years ago when I started in this business back, about this same time, in 1994.

At that time, after the first two years of the Bill Clinton administration, there was an outcry from the public for a more conservative bent in governing, culminating with th... Read More

Campaign Schedule

March 6, 2010, Sunday through Wednesday, March 10: Representing Beaufort County at the NACo Legislative
Conference as the county's legislative laison.
Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC.

March 1, 2010, Monday @ 5:00 pm: General Meeting (monthly). My agenda items are: Follow up on Health Care
Reform Letters, New US History School Curriculum Proposed by NC Department of Public Instruction.
The Commissioner's Meeting Room, 131 West Third Street, Washington, NC.

February, 25, 2010, Thursday @ 2:30 pm: Special called meeting with the Beaufort County Schools to discuss
capital funding, Spanish as a primary lanuage.
The Commissioner's Meeting Room, 131 West Third Street, Washington, NC.

February, 19, 2010, Friday @ 7:00 pm: Meeting with Republican friends at the Beaufort County Republican Party's
annual event.
Reagan Day Dinner at the Washington Yacht and Country Club.

February, 11, 2010, Thursday @ 6:00 pm: Meeting with fellow Conservatives at the mon... Read More

These somewhat descriptive words were offered by Gunnery Sergeant / Drill Instructor Hartman, from the classic Vietnam War film, “Full Metal Jacket,” to his new recruits when discussing the demerits of one young private’s character. Gunny Hartman, played by the irascible R. Lee Ermey never equivocated when it came to his true feelings, and I suppose his character’s words fully illustrate my true feelings as to how we, American citizens, are being treated, yet rather unromantically, by the Democrat controlled U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

The Heath Care Reform Bill is unequivocally the worst legislation ever written and almost passed in the United States Congress. In order to get it passed through the House and the Senate many bribes were offered and accepted by the Democrats in control of our legislative assembly in Washington, DC. In the Senate, we have the “Louisiana Purchase” buying off Democrat Mary Landrieu and the “N... Read More

The debate over the hispanicization of America continued at yesterday’s Beaufort County Board of Commissioners meeting.

The new Beaufort County Board of Education Superintendent Don Phipps appeared before the commissioners to discuss concerns related to the Spanish translation of the Beaufort County Schools’ Code of Conduct, which can be found on their Web site.

The Code of Conduct is, currently, the only material on the site available in Spanish.

Phipps defended the necessity of a Spanish version of the Code of Conduct citing safety concerns.

“It’s essential if you’re dealing with disciplinary actions,” said Phipps. “We want to have collaborative work between the student, the school and the parents.”

At last month’s commissioner meeting, Commissioner Richardson presented a letter from Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue, in which she used much the same argument to defend allowing Spanish on State Web sites.

Three of the four Republican commissioners, Hood Richard... Read More

Incumbent Senator Marc Basnight has a challenger for the seat he has held since 1984. Enter 4 term Beaufort County Commissioner Hood Richardson, who has long given voice to the unwavering conservative Resistance in eastern North Carolina for nearly 14 years, as his deceptively energetic Republican challenger. Commissioner Richardson is scheduled to meet with the State's leading Republicans in Raleigh on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, to engage their support.

Senator Marc Basnight has long been regarded as eastern North Carolina’s greatest advocate for bringing taxpayer’s money back to eastern North Carolina to fund his pet projects, and the pet projects of his political supporters as well. The Senator’s political revolving door of: taxing the State’s citizenry good and hard (North Carolina is the highest taxed state in the Southeast), and then working hard to wrest as much of that money, as is politically possible, from grasp of other needful Democrat polit... Read More