Beaufort County Commissioner Candidate Answers Questions Requested by Local GOP | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Recently, today, September 26, I received an email from the Beaufort County Republican party requesting my participation in answering eleven questions submitted by them to me for consideration as a candidate for the Beaufort County Commission.

    Without delay, I considered these eleven queries, and, while there may be other issues as well to consider as an experienced county commissioner, these eleven questions were thoughtful, provocative, and well within the scope of what any commissioner should be willing to answer to allow the voting public a window into their representative head and heart; for the right to be afforded the chance to serve as a valuable member of the Beaufort County Commission.

    In that vein of understanding of the complexity of running for elected office, and then elected to serve with all manner of desire to achieve a measurable manner of some distinction, I offer in this release to the press these positions on certain issues to better inform Beaufort County's electorate of my candidacy in some manner of detail, remembering correctly: A more informed public makes for a more intelligent electorate.

    Beaufort County Republican party's eleven questions with Stan Deatherage's answers directly below each question here below.

    Contact: Stan Deatherage
       Beaufort County Commissioner candidate

    (252) 946-2361 •  stan@beaufortcountynow.com


    Commissioners:

    1. Do you support a wind/solar ordinance to establish setback and buffer requirements to protect the property rights of adjacent owners and bonding requirements on solar and wind developers to protect Beaufort County taxpayers for cleanup cost?

    A: I support a wind solar/ordinance, crafted and voted on by a majority of the county commissioners, offered to the public via public hearing(s), and then voted on by the county commissioners. How I vote on said ordinance shall be determined by the language of the ordinance, and feedback rendered by the public at the public hearing(s). If the ordinance, approved by a hearing of the public, is poorly written, with the subsequent poor administration, it will not get my vote.

    2. Do you support allowing concealed carry by qualified and trained county employees to help deter attacks at county buildings?

    A: Absolutely; I will stand in support of a well armed capable, qualified public when it is necessary; however, I would also like to see all "Gun Free Zone" signs taken down immediately.

    3. What specific steps would you take to cut county spending?

    A: It is complicated, so I offer these 3 broad solutions that always worked for this Conservative in my 18 years as a county commissioner. I shall continue to wage: zero based budgeting, prudent policy and vigilant oversight of all government services.

    4. Will you continue to raise my taxes and fees?

    A: If elected, in my four years as a county commissioner, it is my promise to not only NOT vote to raise Beaufort County citizens' "taxes and fees", but to advocate and fight to cut all wasteful spending, and move to broadly, and fairly cut taxes in each of these four succeeding years that I serve at the public's pleasure, until we reach a manageable level of government's confiscation of the public's wealth. Currently, our county government is poorly managed, with no reasonable right to force, by police power, the confiscation of any more of the public's wealth.

    5. Will you pledge more debt to this county?

    A: No; there is far too much debt on the books now after these last 4 disastrous years when we had a so-called Republican majority.

    6. Will you adhere to present NC open meeting laws?

    A: Without fail as I advocated for all my previous 18 years served. In 16 of those 18 years, Commissioner Richardson (16 years served with him), and I kept our fellow commissioners out of that proverbial "backroom" as often as we could, where these Democrats and nominal Republicans have, alternatively, cut so many awful deals, disadvantaging their supposed constituents at many junctures. As you might can surmise, we were not always successful keeping these commissioners from their presumed safety of solitude; however, at least Hood and I did not join in those "backrooms", when they conveniently avoided the antiseptic sunlight of good governance.

    7. Will you settle the open meeting law, lawsuit against the Beaufort County Commission?

    A: Immediately without fail, but, we will need a majority to accomplish this rightful initiative.

    8. Do you feel we should have resources officers in our schools?

    A: I would approve of Resource Officers at the level prior to the 2018/2019 fiscal budget, but NOT one resource officer more. These commissioners hiring of 8 additional resource officers in the 2018/2019 fiscal budget will be a huge and unnecessary ongoing expense, and, along with the unthinkably stupid expense of 4.7 million dollars borrowed and spent for virtual meter reading, may well be the dumbest expense of these sophistic county commissioners in this one fiscal year.

    9. Do we have monies to train resource officers? If not, where would funds come from?

    A: There is plenty of money awash in the Sheriff's budget to train what resource officers we truly need.

    10. Should we have more or less commissioners or are seven enough?

    A: I have long advocated for a return to 5 commissioners, putting more power in the hands of fewer commissioners, and, thereby, forcing a greater responsibility upon the public to elect smarter more qualified commissioners.

    11. What does conservative mean to you, and how does it affect your stand on issues?

    A: Adopting a Conservative philosophy of governing is the knowledge that our nation, our state of North Carolina and our county of Beaufort are all separate, but near equal parts of a cohesive pact within the construct of our Constitutional Republic. A true Conservative governs by well understanding the unwavering Conservative principles of limiting government's reach into the freedoms that are allocated to each of us by God, and, when forced to govern our fellow men and women, we justly and fairly decide for those People we represent by abiding by the purpose and promise of the United States Constitution, as it was written, and strictly intended by our Founders. Furthermore, as Conservatives, we believe that government is best representative of our Founder's wishes when it is local, and that it be limited, and that the legislative branch of all levels of government should remain the most powerful of any and all co-equal branches.
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