A former North Carolina Democratic Party staffer was sexually harassed by a party official, made a financial settlement with the party and signed a non-disclosure agreement to keep the incident quiet.
“If this hits the media, the Democratic Party, our candidates, and our credibility are doomed in this election,” reads one email exchange between state Democratic leaders.
An email chain between those Democratic leaders, obtained by The Daily Caller, indicates the executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Jay Parmley, and the alleged sexual harassment victim both signed non-disclosure agreements.
The email chain does not make clear who was guilty of the harassment, the status of that individual’s employment with the Democratic Party or the identity of the victim.
State Democratic Party spokesman Walton Robinson did not respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment on the matter.
President Obama’s re-election team views North Carolina as an important state in the president’s campaign and Charlotte, N.C. is the site of this year’s Democratic National Convention.
In the email chain, North Carolina Democratic statehouse candidate Watt Jones complained about the lack of what he considers competent staffers in the state party.
Though North Carolina Democratic Party chairman David Parker claimed in one email that a supposed ongoing staff exodus was due to staffers leaving for “greener pastures” during the campaign season, Jones rebutted that assertion.
“In regards to the personnel issues, certain staff leaving for ‘greener grass’ is not the issue,” Jones wrote to Parker. “In fact, some of those staffers who have recently left have also privately spoke of frustration at things occurring within Goodwin House [the North Carolina Democratic Party headquarters].”
Jones said that those “personnel issues coming from Goodwin House are now related to allegations of ‘harassment,’ sexual or otherwise, involving staff.”
He went on to explain how the alleged sexual harassment going on within the Democratic Party’s North Carolina headquarters could be detrimental to the party and may even directly contradict the Democrats’ own immediate agenda.
“Even with an agreed non-disclosure statement and financial settlement, that appears to be short-lived,” Jones wrote. “It’s making its rounds all over the state and beyond. Is the person responsible still employed? Many questions are unanswered. With a Democratic Party which is suppose [sic] to be fighting to defeat Amendment One [which describes marriage as between one man and one woman] on the May 8 ballot, yet we have this in Goodwin House? How does that look?”
The question of appearances by Jones may imply that the harassment was same-sex in nature, which might complicate Democratic messaging in the party’s efforts to defeat the anti-gay-marriage amendment.
“Rest assured there is a statewide gathering (I am told) that are upset over this and want people held accountable,” Jones continued. “In all honesty, I am being told by several reliable sources that the Associated Press is itching to get this out. Thankfully, some are trying to stop it. Do we want the Republicans to get this information? They are also asking questions.”
Jones added that he expects that the “Democratic Party, our Candidates, and our credibility are doomed in this election,” if the alleged sexual harassment story is made public
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:52 pm
by Van
This could scarcely be more of a WGARA story if it tried.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:56 pm
by Cuda
sure seems to be some worried democRats, though, vannie
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:20 pm
by Mace
Van wrote:This could scarcely be more of a WGARA story if it tried.
If this is the worst thing the Dems have to worry about then Obama won't have to worry about filling out all of the forwarding address crap at the Post Office.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:38 pm
by Cuda
ask the NC democRats who're shitting all over themselves what the big concern is. they certainly seem to be concerned
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:18 am
by Bizzarofelice
HA! CUDES CAPITALIZD THE 'R' TO MAKE A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION TO A POLITICAL PARTY! TOO FUNNY!
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:20 am
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
Bizzarofelice wrote:HA! CUDES CAPITALIZD THE 'R' TO MAKE A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION TO A POLITICAL PARTY! TOO FUNNY!
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:44 am
by Cuda
Bizzarofelice wrote:HA! CUDES CAPITALIZD THE 'R' TO MAKE A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION TO A POLITICAL PARTY! TOO FUNNY!
what, you thought it meant i was going to post titty pics?
i wonder if a bag of topsoil was involved in this scandal. you rikey?
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:28 am
by Bizzarofelice
the issues facing us are not solved by partisanship
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:13 am
by mvscal
Bizzarofelice wrote:the issues facing us are not solved by partisanship
More trite bumper sticker bullshit. Go ahead and lay the solution on us, slappy. We're all waiting.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:54 am
by Bizzarofelice
did you agree with the way the GOP handled the economy from 2000-2008?
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:16 am
by Bizzarofelice
88 wrote:
Bizzarofelice wrote:did you agree with the way the GOP handled the economy from 2000-2008?
What is different during the last four years?
I didn't ask that.
I asked if the GOP losers on this board believe that the GOP did a great job with the economy from 2000-2008.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:18 am
by Van
And mvscal asked you a question you never answered before skipping forward to your own diversion.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:38 am
by Bizzarofelice
Van wrote:to your own diversion.
I am answering his question. Low-functioning GOP die hards will be led to the point like they are led to TSA obsession, NRA dedication and Romney acceptance.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:44 am
by Van
No, you absolutely are not answering his question. He asked for a solution, and all you did was make a jab at W. In no way was that an attempt at offering a solution.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:47 am
by Bizzarofelice
Van wrote:No, you absolutely are not answering his question.
I don't have the solution. Nor did I say I did. You no read gud.
He asked for a solution, and all you did was make a jab at W. In no way was that an attempt at offering a solution.
I made no jab at W. I merely asked if one agreed with how those who identify with the GOP in 2012 agree with how the GOP handled the economy from 2000-2008.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:52 am
by Van
Weird to see you spin like this. Normally you at least have the backbone to stand behind your own takes.
GIMME BACK MY BACE!
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:02 am
by Truman
Bizzarofelice wrote:
88 wrote:
Bizzarofelice wrote:did you agree with the way the GOP handled the economy from 2000-2008?
What is different during the last four years?
I didn't ask that.
I asked if the GOP losers on this board believe that the GOP did a great job with the economy from 2000-2008.
You mean, as great a job as the Democrats have done with the economy from '08-12'?
Not to mention a brand new unconstitutional entitlement program which we cannot afford to pay for passed at our Socialist President's behest.
Oblama has had almost four years to "fix" things. Instead... Everything is worse.
Of course, this is all due because Bush has caused the Earth to warm.
You really don't need to post in this thread anymore, Bace.
Thanks for proving my point.
Is it that you are this dumb, or that you are not use to to actually reading the thread before throwing a long tantrum?
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:16 am
by Truman
You didn't answer my questions.
You can't answer my questions.
You are a liberal.
Liberals can't deal with logic. Or facts. Or reality.
Please don't have children.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:45 am
by Van
Bizzarofelice wrote:
Van wrote:Weird to see you spin like this. Normally you at least have the backbone to stand behind your own takes.
I am firmly behind them.
Then state them. You didn't say shit. When asked a direct question, your answer was pure spin. You answered a question with an unrelated question, then you backed it up by pretending not to be equating "2000-2008" with W.
Fail on all levels. You pussed out.
Truman wrote:Of course, this is all due because Bush has caused the Earth to warm.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:51 am
by Diego in Seattle
Tru;
What was the price of gas on Jan. 20th, 2001, and what was it on Jan. 20th, 2009?
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:02 am
by Truman
I don't care Diego. I can't go back in time and buy gas on either date.
I can only buy gas now. And it costs a lot.
Should I ask you what the deficit was on either date?
I only responded to Bace in this thread because he is being irrational. And stupid. And being a real dick.
BTW, my daughter LOVES Seattle. She says the people are nice.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:14 am
by Diego in Seattle
Tru;
My point is that I'm pretty sure that it was under $2/gal back then...it was over $3/gal when Obama took office. So to claim that gas was cheaper at the end of Bush's term than at the beginning was pretty stupid.
Let me know if you daughter needs any pointers on this place...glad to help out.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:25 am
by Truman
No, my "claim" is that gasoline prices have never been so high, Diego.
FWIW, I do not blame the president for such phenomena... Although I'd like to see him be a bit more, hum, liberal in bestowing domestic drilling rights...
Blaming sitting presidents for high fuel prices - especially those of the Republican persuasion - is a favored tactic of our uncorruptable media. Bottom line is, the R's could run Bace come November and have a better chance of winning unless Barry can right the ship and get things turned around. America WILL vote it's pocketbook.
"It's the economy, stupid."
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:43 am
by Dr_Phibes
Just a wild guess here, but the subject might be the object? Stupid Bace. Developments encompass the participants rather than the other way round?
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:48 am
by bradhusker
Bizzarofelice wrote:
88 wrote:
Bizzarofelice wrote:did you agree with the way the GOP handled the economy from 2000-2008?
What is different during the last four years?
I didn't ask that.
I asked if the GOP losers on this board believe that the GOP did a great job with the economy from 2000-2008.
OK, I'll answer that. YES, in light of the fact that the internet bubble burst when Bush took office, and millions of jobs were lost as a result, AND THEN, 9/11, Katrina, AND, BARNEY FRANK, SCHUMER, and the DEMOCRAT SCUMBAGS who allowed millions of poor folks to get into houses, KNOWING FULL WELL that they couldnt afford them. YES,
George Bush actually warned everyone as early as 2003, and then again, THAT THE ECONOMY WOULD SOON CRASH, if Frank and Schumer and the rest of the dems didnt do something about the HOUSING BUBBLE.
WANNA know what Schumer and Frank did when Bush issued the stern warnings?
They laughed at him. Both men said that G W BUSH didnt know what he was talking about.
THIS PROVES HOW CORRUPT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY REALLY IS.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:45 pm
by mvscal
Bizzarofelice wrote:did you agree with the way the GOP handled the economy from 2000-2008?
Totally irrelevent to the issue at hand but the answer is no. I wasn't alone either. Chimpy's approval ratings cratered because he was abandoned by conservatives primarily because of his reckless spending.
He was a miserly skinflint in comparison to the idiot we have in the White Hut now though. Odowngrade racked more debt in three years than Chimpy did in eight and his fellow fuckwits in Congress have not passed a budget in over three years. The media is curiously uninterested in that among others things such as providing weapons to Mexican and South American drug cartels.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:51 pm
by mvscal
Bizzarofelice wrote:
Van wrote:No, you absolutely are not answering his question.
I don't have the solution.
Then you can't very well claim that "the issues facing us are not solved by partisanship." For all you know, partisanship is exactly what we need. You can't even articulate these issues which we face. All you're doing is spewing bullshit and trying to change the subject.
It's pretty pathetic really.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:53 pm
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
mvscal wrote:Odowngrade racked more debt in three years than Chimpy did in eight...
Well...he did bail out the banks, after all.
mvscal wrote:The media is curiously uninterested in that...
Big Business covering for Big Business.
What a shocker.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:10 pm
by Cuda
Bizzarofelice wrote: Low-functioning GOP die hards will be led to the point like they are led to TSA obsession, NRA dedication and Romney acceptance.
Gil Scott Heron still lives!
oh, &rack! Comrade Marty, imo
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:20 pm
by Invictus
Threads like this one remind me how awful this election cycle has already become and the conventions haven't even happened yet. I despise both parties, partisanship politics and people who get overly emotional about national issues that have no real bearing on what goes on in their state or locality.
I use to enjoy debating politics in threads like these. Now I hate it online as much as I do in real life.
I'm still hoping for a race war that begins in America and spills over to the rest of the world or maybe a protracted, bloody war in Iran or North Korea. Millions dead and the world economy would restart like it did after WWI and WWII.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:34 pm
by bradhusker
FINE, you want a race war? OK, just remember to tell the new black panthers, "Be careful what you wish for". Remember that our side has dangerous weapons like Chuck Norris and Steven Segall.
WHO do you have? Snipes? Montel? PLEEEESE. you dont want a race war. It wont end good for you, trust me on this. Lets just all get along.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:15 am
by Invictus
^Genius post. No bullshit.
How can any of you hate this cat? He's well thought out, good scripting and even better improv when needed and hasn't broken character yet.
brad, I won't be fighting on either side. I'll let other angrier people do all the fighting while I hunker down with provisions and guns, glued to my tv set.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:47 am
by mvscal
Invictus wrote:national issues that have no real bearing on what goes on in their state or locality.
You mean like whether or not some stupid hoor at Georgetown has to pay for her own bc pills?
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:47 am
by Cuda
i'm still convinced that brad is really Stanley Pikkkle
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:48 am
by mvscal
I'm not sure they have much in common other than fervent devotion to cock.
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:36 pm
by bradhusker
mvscal wrote:
Invictus wrote:national issues that have no real bearing on what goes on in their state or locality.
You mean like whether or not some stupid hoor at Georgetown has to pay for her own bc pills?
RAAAAAAAACK! Best thing ive heard in a long long time. And she is a filthy cuntish whore and a dirty leftist dyke, the kind that President Obama loves to call and offer apologies to. How can the most powerful man in the world, find time out of his busy schedule, to actually dial up a filthy dyke slut like that?
Re: Stay Classy, DemocRats
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:02 am
by Bizzarofelice
Van wrote:
Bizzarofelice wrote:
Van wrote:Weird to see you spin like this. Normally you at least have the backbone to stand behind your own takes.
I am firmly behind them.
Then state them.
the issues facing us are not solved by partisanship.
Fail on all levels. You pussed out.
I seriously expected more from you. Seriously. You had to throw a tantrum while responding? Where did this come from?
