Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 @ 11:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage   ( More Entries )

    Publisher's note: This editorial appears here courtesy of Beaufort County NOW.

    News Release:

Former Conservative County Commissioner Stan Deatherage seeks election to the Beaufort County board of county commissioners.

    Beaufort County native and former Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage filed Monday, February 26, 2018, for his party's nomination as a Republican candidate for the Beaufort County Commission. When Deatherage filed this Monday, he became the third candidate to file for the three seats available with nearly 2 full days left for any further Republican aspirants to file for the Republican party's nomination, which will be determined by the Republican primary to be held May 8, 2018.

    Deatherage has served two 4 year terms from 1994 to 2002; voluntarily took 2 years off; then was nominated by the Republican party, in 2004, to run in a special election to win the right to serve the remaining two years of Carol Cochran's term; after elected for a that third 2 year term, was elected for two straight 4 year terms until 2014. In the 2014 primary election, Deatherage was defeated in the Republican primary, and could not stand for re-election after winning 5 straight previous general elections.

    Stan Deatherage did not seek election in 2016, when the commissioners' staggered election process within the construct of its Limited Voting method provided four vacant seats, and did not plan to run in this 2018 election for one of the other three seats (the Beaufort County Commission has 7 elected board members) until very recently.

    Deatherage explained: "After much urging from many Republicans, Independents and Democrats, and some small measure of 'soul searching', I have decided to file for my party's nomination for Beaufort County's board of commissioners. After losing my party's nomination in 2014, I truly believed that I would never again heed the call to rejoin this measure of public service; however, without hesitation of total commitment, I have gone and done it; paid the 167.00 filing fee and am ready, if elected, to perform a job I understand well to the core of my purposeful being.

    After so many years serving the people of Beaufort County with honesty and all the integrity I could muster, I will humbly seek those folks, who desire my committed service to support my candidacy; to become my constituents, and lend their political voice to my candidacy to win our right to rein in Beaufort County's expanding bureaucracy, to make better policy choices to enact a more sustainable future, and offer real oversight over the people's government. If elected, as my constituent's constant voice, I will govern to make Beaufort County government smaller, more nimble in its approach to governing fairly all of our citizens, in equal application our immense constitutional power; in summary, to perform all within my ascribed power to make Beaufort County a community that deserves to be revered as a fine to live, and rear our future generations to deserve a brighter future."
Stan Deatherage taking a break from an easy hike around the circumference of Price Lake in the northwestern mountains of North Carolina.     photo by Lynn Womble Deatherage     Click image to expand.
    Contact: Currently, if you wish to contact Stan Deatherage: you may email him at stan@beaufortcountynow.com, or contact him by private message on beaufortcountynow.com.

    Also, very soon in the near future, you will be able to contact Stan on his new website, now under construction: standeatherage.com