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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global Worming Sci: Asian glaciers 'putting on mass' - getting thicker, say researchers.
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Home Front: Politix
Staffer claims sexual harassment by NC Dem official; Party fears credibility ‘doomed’

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, according to emails obtained by The Daily Caller.

“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 alleged 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.
Posted by: Beavis || 04/15/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under:


-Election 2012
LMAObama
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/15/2012 01:50 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under:


Obama pledges to pursue immigration reform in second term
Guess how he wants to 'reform' immigration...
President Obama vowed in an interview with Univision to pursue comprehensive immigration reform and attacked Romney and GOP lawmakers, saying they would oppose his efforts. Obama promised to pursue immigration reform in his second term, but said Republicans in Congress may keep him from succeeding.

“I can promise that I will try to do it in the first year of my second term,” Obama said in an interview with Univision set to air on Sunday. “I want to try this year. The challenge we've got on immigration reform is very simple. I've got a majority of Democrats who are prepared to vote for it, and I've got no Republicans who are prepared to vote for it.”
"Vote for me, I can't get anything done."
The president also took a shot at Mitt Romney, his likely Republican opponent in the fall, for supporting Arizona’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law.

“We now have a Republican nominee who said that the Arizona laws are a model for the country; that - and these are laws that potentially would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship papers are based on an assumption.”
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Univision reporter Enrique Acevedo interjected to describe such stops as “racial profiling.”

“Very troublesome,” Obama continued. “And this is something that the Republican nominee has said should be a model for the country. So what we need is a change either of Congress or we need Republicans to change their mind, and I think this has to be an important debate during - throughout the country.”
Champ will open the gates and let anyone in. That's "reform" to him.

Folks, you may not particularly like Willard, but we can't afford four more years of Champ.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/15/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WHAT secomd term?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/15/2012 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "A-M-N-E-S-T-Y. It's not just for illegal aliens related to Obama any more. Vote Democrat - Vote often"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/15/2012 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  This guy couldn't reform Play-doh.
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/15/2012 0:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Afraid Zimmerman lynching lost him some Hispanic votes?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/15/2012 1:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Expect to be like the UK with plenty of friendly, Neighborly types of feelings for you. If Mexicans are not going to be the force Immigre - it must be MME.
Posted by: newc || 04/15/2012 3:12 Comments || Top||

#6  …but the one thing that I think everybody needs to understand is that this is something I care deeply about. It's personal to me, and I will do everything that I can to try to get it done.

Uh…yeah we know. BTW, how are Uncle Onyango and Auntie Zeituni doing anyhow?
Posted by: DepotGuy || 04/15/2012 8:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Ah, people would PAY to immigrate to the U.S.

You could work out a value maximising amount per immigrant and then charge that, it would sort the wheat from the chaff.

Subsidised immigration suits the rent-seeking political classes, cheap labour + more expensive rents, and billed to you, the citizens of the country they run "in your name" lol.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/15/2012 9:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, if we're talking his immigration to a welcoming country, it's a program a lot of Americans can get behind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/15/2012 11:17 Comments || Top||

#9  How about the American voters give us all amnesty and not vote this fraudulent schmoe?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/15/2012 11:20 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm afraid my rudimentary Spanish isn't good enough to say "Remember, amigos, that all of this puta's promises come with an expiration date. Every single one."
Posted by: Matt || 04/15/2012 11:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Fresh from his promises and presidential victory, he had two years of a packed House and Senate to get anything he wanted done.

Know what he chose over immigration reform?

Golf.

Tell the truth, I wouldn't trust him to keep score. Said he never cheated at golf, bullshit. Said himself he skipped a hole not to be part of a photo op (martha's vinyard). Skipping a hole is cheating at golf, ask the old timers and young pros. Orr...not keeping score is just wasting time.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/15/2012 12:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Hopefully they will start with illegal people from Kenya!
Posted by: Kojo Grereger7600 || 04/15/2012 18:56 Comments || Top||



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