Wednesday, December 6, 2023
By Mark Jurkowitz | Outer Banks Voice on November 11, 2023
Bea Basnight, who had previously served 12 years on the Dare County Board of Education, has been selected by the Executive Committee of the Dare County Republican Party to fill the vacancy on the Dare County Board of Commissioners created when Jim Tobin passed away on Oct. 18.Ā The board of commissioners will vote on approving her appointment at its Dec. 4 meeting.
In an interview with the Voice, Basnight said, āIām very honored that the executive committee put their trust in me. Iāve been trying to stay in involved in all kinds of thingsā¦Maybe I can bring a new voice to some of the issues, to offer my voice.ā
If her selection is approved, Basnight will be the only woman on the seven-member board of commissioners.
After spending 35 years as a teacher and a dozen years on the board of education, Basnight, then the chairperson of that board, was defeated in a 2020 re-election bid by Republican Carl Woody in the first school board election conducted as a partisan race. The defeat of the widely respected Basnight, who was running as a Democrat, was seen as a clear sign of the strength of Republican dominance in the county.
Now a Republican, Basnight told the Voice that she switched to an unaffiliated registration about three years ago and then became a Republican about a year ago.
Characterizing herself as āa middle of road personā politically, Basnight acknowledged that the switch to the Republican Party came after she realized that āIf I wanted to throw my hat in the ringā for political office again, āI needed to be an āR.āā
In the Nov. 10 release announcing her selection, the Dare GOPās Executive Committee noted that Basnight is a longtime member of the Roanoke Island Historical Society Board (RIHA) and ācurrently serves on multiple other boards for Dare County.ā
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Adam
Reading these comments makes me so glad Iām an independent and not republican. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Pathetic kvetching whiners.
John
Judge Tillett is a lifelong conservative, who was endorsed by US Senator Jesse Helms for a federal judgeship. He didnāt have any election in 2014 and hasnāt had any contested race in decades.
Puddle
There is now difference between Republican and Democrat anymore.
You can’t vote your way out of this.
Quote the Joker…
You get what you deserve
Mark Jurkowitz | Outer Banks Voice
Puddle, do you mean “no difference?”
Sandflea
@ Affiliation Matter;
I suggest that you engage brain and facts before fingers. There are exactly ZERO CRT courses being taught anywhere in America. The only place that it is discussed is in graduate programs such as History (mostly PhD level) and Law School.
I wonder what percentage of politicians would have a formal diagnosis of Sociopath. Nothing seems to bother them; no shame and they just donāt care what others think. Iām guessing it would be quite high.
Independent
This type of shenanigans is why I left the Republican Party. Most recently, I was thinking about switching back, but after reading this article why would I even waste my time being associated with them? They just gave a Republican county commissioner seat to a Democrat and she even admits it in the article that she doesnāt have any Republican principles. The process sounds very shady. I would like to know the vote breakdown and access to the meeting recording or video. We deserve to know who voted for this woman.
Caleb
Weird how many people are talking about RINOs in local government. One of the guiding principals of modern republicanism is low spending for *federal* government. There’s hardly any difference between those of you shouting about *local* government spending and anarchists at this point. Other than taking social rights away from people, it doesn’t seem like y’all stand for anything other than doing nothing and getting mad that nothing ever changes.