Former Buncombe County Rep. Charles Thomas has resigned his position as chief of staff for N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis, after acknowledging “an intimate relationship with a lobbyist for the North Carolina Home Builders Association, a special interest group that often seeks help from the legislature and provides money to political campaigns across the state.”
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/27/2027766/charles-thomas-nc-speakers-top.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/27/2027766/charles-thomas-nc-speakers-top.html#storylink=cpy
I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that Charles Thomas — a Tim Moffitt mentor — is an even bigger sleaze than he has let on.
“Thomas said he believes someone is out to get him, probably connected to a local issue in his hometown of Asheville, in what the former Army soldier called an
Out to get him? Thomas flatters himself. Assassination? Ha! More like suicide.
“Assassination? Ha! More like suicide.”
I believe in the military they prefer the term ‘calling in an airstrike on their own position.’
In the military, they call it “steppin’ on your di_k with your track shoes.” When caught , the weasel squeals conspiracy. lol
It’s a crying shame that one is not able to exploit their political patronage jobs by engaging in unethical behavior, conflicts of interest and maybe illegalities without some pesky group interferring. Geez.
Hilarious to see the local leftists get all winded about Thomas (R) and remain quite mum on Parmley (D) for weeks. Partisan hypocrisy is our only entertainment these days.
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Wrong (as usual). Your fantasy ramblings provide much more entertainment. Tell us again what the preamble to the Constitution states.
Yes, yes – they’re exactly the same, so it’s hypocrisy to not attack Parmley as well as Thomas…
Except that:
A) Parmley is not a government employee with significant power in the legislature – Thomas is,
B) as grotesque as the accusations are against Parmley, they are about unseemly personal behavior, not an unethical relationship with a professional lobbyist with huge issues in front of the legislature,
C) none of the people in the Parmley affair were married to other people – both Thomas and the lobbyist were cheating on their spouses,
D) Parmley isn’t involved in pushing hypocritical sanctity of marriage laws onto the citizenry, Thomas is,
E) …and Parmley wasn’t carrying on in an apartment he shares with the Speaker of the House – Thomas apparently was. Tillis had to know his Chief of Staff was committing adultery with a paid lobbyist under his taxpayer-funded roof – and he did nothing.
I know Tim(1), you’re desperate to claim these two sad events are equal to each other, but they aren’t.
It’s not the sexual tittilation…it’s the abuse of position…being in bed with a lobbiest for an association that from thier own director of government affiars said….. last years legislative session was their
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Mr. Peck’s conflation of influence peddling and misbehavior by an unelected party official is duly noted.
Unlike a stopped clock, he cannot manage to be right twice a day.