Comments for The Board of Commissioners' Clown Car rolls on | Eastern North Carolina Now

Gene,

I get it. I got it. I've actually had it quite well for some time.

And very soon, I will be gone ... for good as a county commissioner.

Charles,

Thanks man. It was because of guys like you and Velma that I did this.

And once again, as if you did not know this already: Thanks for all you did fronting the party, and thank-you for all that you did to help me, and, therefore, my constituents all these years.

You remember when the Washington Daily News wrote that hit-piece on me, on the issue of constituency, when the WDN was front-running to help give away our county hospital to UHS, now Vidant.

I felt that I was in another world that I so well understood constituency, and the WDN did not, which translated to so many of their readers being, once again, so terribly misinformed. The WDN really has a hard time thinking their way out of a 'wet paper bag', and sadly, so do most of their ardent readers, who certainly won't read what I am writing now.

I won't miss that level of stupidity directed at me as a commissioner. I can promise you that.

As a businessman and being part of the creation team here here at SNI, I don't have to do business with people that despise me because I am a Conservative, or just that I don't hate Hood. I can always just work with their competition, and give them the superior product, and for less money since our products are so far superior to our local, and regional competition.

This will be fun, and this game is just nigh of beginning.

Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You still don't "get it", Stan ---- sorry about that!

Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 11:57 am By: Gene Scarborough

We are still throwing epithets without serious definition, gentlemen!

I am Baptist by rearing and profession for many years. The Southern Baptist Convention was, perhaps, the most democratic religious denomination of any today. The only way to really describe it WAS: Whatever the Roman Catholics were in organization, the SBC WAS NOT!!! We both believe in the basics of the Faith, but the way we went about organizing and doing business were miles apart.

Inside this diverse group of churches, you had all the way from mountain snake-handlers to robed clergy with liturgy/split-chancel. The rules were that "if you gave to the Mission Enterprise, you had a vote at the annual meeting." We USED not to kill each over theology because we majored on missions and left the details of the faith to the individual and local church. It worked pretty well since the SBC was the largest Protestant Denomination in the US under that umbrella.

Back in the 50's and with power and steam/flame in the 60's --- things began to change. At every meeting you now had "Conservatives" pushing to rule when they had been a minority on votes / "Liberals" holding against what they perceived as barbarians at the gates of a diverse and fair organization.

Some called the Conservatives "fundamentalists" / others called the Main Line folks who understood (like me) "liberals." Then it went to Conservative-Fundamentalists / Moderate-Liberal. Nobody found a term to describe it. We all knew it was a "Battle for the Bible" as described in naive media. It kept the SBC on front pages of each State Baptist Paper with unending debate (nothing new for any Baptist) until the votes were cast in Houston, Texas, where I was present and watching, mid-70's.

A massive influx of church buses rolled up to the door. Out came masses of people flooding through the registration area and picking up ballots. There were rules which limited each church to a max of 10 Messengers, but they all got run over! Trust was the rule before that event. What Baptist Church or it's member, all knowing the rules, would intentionally violate them? How about just enough voters with ballots to give the Conservative candidate for the President a 2% edge in numbers!!!

What used to be a mission-sending organization is now a highly paid Executive organization with the Executive Committee appointed by a Conservative President (Mega Church pay) consistently in office ever since. Southeastern Seminary at Wake Forest is now a little Liberty University run with the outlook of Jerry Falwell---who was an Independent Baptist in Lynchburg, VA, saying all the SBC churches were bound for hell if attended by any type of Baptist other than "his type of Baptist."

When we stop respecting one another / when we start calling each other names in hate / we see how the SBC is no longer as big as it used to be / has nowhere near the type of professional schools with respect it used to have / is crying the blues over "what happened to our fast growth of the 60's?"

All I can say is, "God doesn't bless a mess!"

Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 11:18 am By: Gene Scarborough

Well, I like DINOs, and actually DINOs are a remnant of the old Democrat party before it got hijacked by the victim class.

DINO's kept me in office for 18 years, so I am a bit partial here.

You know I don't mind Liberals, when they are not so damned mean-spirited, and some are the worst this nation has ever known.

Mostly, my truck is with the RINOs, always has been. As you know, I despise a liar, and a fake, and RINOs are the worst.

On your mention of the "over-used flame title", for me it is a quicker way to better describe a self-anointed class. I like good descriptive words, because time is fleeting.

Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 10:43 am By: Stan Deatherage

Stan gave a good explanation of the RINO phenomenon. I've actually stopped using the term, but I'm still in flux about settling on the correct standard term to use. At various times, I now use the terms of establishment Republican, big government Republican, liberal Republican, progressive Republican, socialist Republican, globalist Republican, crony Republican, phony Republican, corrupt Republican, unprincipled Republican, or traitorous Republican.

Some quick ways to recognize one of these dudes is by asking if this fellow cares a wit about the Republican Party platform, if they align with Democrat Socialists in policy making or organization, and if they are anti-conservative.

In my lifetime there have always been tensions in the party with these establishment types; the Rockefeller cocktail progressive Republicans weren't real happy with conservatives like Goldwater, Reagan, and Helms. But, the big government boys have escalated the tensions over time. After what happened in the 2014 Mississippi Senate primary, we may have reached a point of no return.

Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 10:25 am By:

Stan---any small businessman / Conservative Republican like you is in that same spot = economy slow / expenses up / I manage it with 80% less than before this economy busted under Bush's watch and Reagan's VooDoo.

I find ways to do more with less. I drive a 1990 F-250, but it's better engineered with an International 7.3 than the $65K up new ones!

That's a total NON-ANSWER/COMMENT, my brother!!! This whole thing is going to be declared illegal unless it gets a public vote---after more money is wasted by the Commissioners hiring a lawyer to defend their actions at odds with NC Statute!!!

Sorry, but WTH is a RINO????

Commented: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:54 am By: Gene Scarborough

Why the avoidance of good questions I am asking??? It matter not who did what to whom~~~this needs a solution when you guys put down your angry clenched jaws and consider the state of our dangerous jail!!!

Commented: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 4:50 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Is ask good questions ~~~ get no answer. This is serious, my brother!!!

Commented: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 1:35 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Please drop the "party blame" BS --- it accomplishes NOTHING when prison safety and good law enforcement at the real issue. I am INDEPENDENT!!!

Commented: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 9:31 am By: Gene Scarborough

Yes Gene, I am a member of the Gang of Three, formerly a member of the Gang of Two. Over the last 18 years, the People of Beaufort County have saw fit to elect majorities of Democrats and Republicans that have moved as majorities to make decisions that have raised your/our taxes, and if the Southwest County Jail comes into fruition, they will raise them again.

There has been little that I and Hood have been able to do to stem that tide, but I now hear that this predicament may all be out fault because we 'doth protest too much' too vociferously. This is mostly a RINO fantasy, but Democrats parrot it as well, so that is fine with me. I will soon only accurately record the events of this county; I will no longer accurately serve my constituents.

As one of clarion thought, I see the People of Beaufort County as a majority, who wishes to pay the higher taxes, and soon much higher taxes. This is what they want, this is what they will handsomely get.

My only sorrow is that as long as I live here, I, and my more thoughtful constituents, will also pay the higher taxes.

Oh well.

Commented: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 9:01 am By: Stan Deatherage

Gene,

At that very same meeting, you asked that the commissioners lower the property taxes by '30% across the board', so: How do you propose that the county's people pay for the Southwest County jail, and the 800,000.00 per year to transport the prisoners from the Industrialized Incarceration Complex on 30% less revenue?

Commented: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 8:38 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The RINOs are promulgating the scenario that Hood are I are responsible for the many bad decisions by the Democrats and RINOs because we intimidate them.

It is probably good that I will soon no longer be a county commissioner. I'm fed up with all the lies and stupidity of others, and as someone who is no longer a public figure, I will tolerate no more of either.

Commented: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 10:49 am By: Stan Deatherage