NC Democrats have a hush money scandal of its own (02-21-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] All right, so do I shift gears and go to the latest scandal with the North Carolina Democrat Party? Or do I keep hammering away at the dumbassery of firing a locksmith? Gosh, I'm torn. Okay, I'll do both. I'll do both. All right, let's start with the Democrats, though.

[00:00:52] Huffington Post. Hardly a right-wing conservative publication. Has a story which came from Democrats, because the Huffington Post is a Democrat-aligned website. And obviously some people speaking on the condition of anonymity, but also providing, apparently, documentation to support their tale.

[00:01:21] Gave the Huffington Post a story that could be a bit problematic for the people that are fixing to run for the leadership posts at the Democrat Party, the North Carolina Democrat Party, which I believe is going to be this weekend. I think it's tomorrow. They're doing their elections. So here is the story by Daniel Marins. The North Carolina Democratic Party moved up the termination date of an employee.

[00:01:50] So they accelerated it. And this employee had alleged in a formal complaint that a female supervisor had punished him for a sexual relationship they'd had. That's according to the text of the complaint, as well as three people with knowledge of how it was handled. So they got a copy of the complaint.

[00:02:16] The Democrat Party offered the worker a severance agreement in exchange for his silence about the terms of the agreement. The three people that are familiar with the situation requested anonymity because they were afraid of retaliation, which makes sense. These are Democrats we're talking about. But also, that's what is alleged in the complaint.

[00:02:42] And the person who did the retaliating after she allegedly got the sex that she pressured the staffer into. She retaliated and the party seems to have retaliated and there does not appear to have been an investigation. And by the way, if any of this sounds familiar, it's because it was merely 12, 13 years ago that the North Carolina Democrat Party.

[00:03:13] Had virtually the exact same scandal. Which, of course, we know means that the news story here is not the scandal. It will be the Republican reaction to the scandal if it is covered at all in the media. So the three sources that spoke to the Huffington Post said they had no knowledge of any investigation into the complaint.

[00:03:43] But that if one did occur, it was conducted in less than four days. When you just look at the date on the severance agreement, you can see, like, we have the agreement and we have the complaint. It's only four days. And so if the party is going to claim that they did some sort of investigation, that it only took four days.

[00:04:04] Because the man who had filed the complaint, the victim here, declined to speak to the Huffington Post. Because he waived his right to sue the North Carolina Democrat Party as a condition of his severance. So he has a non-disclosure. He's not allowed to talk about it. And he has a and he waived his right to sue. That was part of the deal. And that's pretty standard, right? You're going to take the money.

[00:04:33] Then you shut the hell up. And you don't ever get to sue us. That's why people pay these things to go away. And again, if anybody should know this, it would be the Democrat Party. Because they had to do it before. Now, they may have forgotten because they were making these accusations against Donald Trump. Because remember, he paid Stormy Daniels to shut up and go away.

[00:05:04] Right? And she claimed that they had had the relations. Trump says he didn't. She actually at one point said she didn't either. But this kind of, these kinds of accusations are levied against or leveled against famous people all the time and businesses and such. And it's just cheaper. They look at the cost to litigate.

[00:05:32] And the cost to just pay somebody off and make them shut up and go away, sign a nondisclosure agreement. And so they just opt for the cheaper avenue. They just pay you. You shut up. You go away. And they get to continue on. Even if they didn't do anything wrong, it's just cheaper and less reputational harm. They don't have to, you know, go through the whole, you know, PR hit and all of that. And then having to respond to it and fix all of the bad reporting and, you know, whatever.

[00:06:02] It's like, it's just easier to make it go away. And the Democrats did not believe that this happens when it came to Donald Trump. But they themselves apparently did this very thing. Except in this case, the guy actually has a case. That's according to two experts that the Huffington Post interviewed, two labor law experts that were fully briefed on the matter by the HuffPost,

[00:06:26] said that this guy, John Doe, would have had a strong claim in court to argue that the state party violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act's prohibition on retaliating against employees who make allegations of sexual harassment or related violations of labor law. So the guy had a case, according to these two experts that the Huffington Post interviewed.

[00:06:52] The woman that's accused of doing the harassing did not respond to a request for comment about the claims against her. The North Carolina Democrat Party did confirm the existence of the severance agreement with John Doe. So they so we know the severance exists. OK, this agreement exists. All right. The North Carolina Democrat Party. Did not want to talk about any of this, any of the details.

[00:07:21] Well, Anderson Clayton. The. Democrat Party. Chair. She refused comment on any of this. Instead, the party issued a statement suggesting that Anderson Clayton and other leaders of the party were not involved with John Doe's termination. See, because he wasn't an employee of the Democrat Party.

[00:07:47] He was an employee of the Democrats state Senate caucus. OK, so this is a separate separate. They claim a separate semi autonomous branch of the North Carolina Democrat Party. Now, both both parties have this kind of set up going. OK, where you've got these like operations that work to get Senate candidates and then they got one in the House side.

[00:08:16] Republicans have one or two as well. They've got one for House, one for Senate. And they focus on the campaign stuff. They focus on attracting candidates, you know, recruiting new candidates, helping them through the election, working on messaging and stuff. And so that's who this guy worked for. The Democrat state Senate caucus. John Doe, according to the Democrat Party, was employed by the Senate caucus during the 2024 election cycle as a temporary employee.

[00:08:42] The Senate caucus functions separately from the state party. We are unable to discuss personnel matters, but can confirm a mutually agreeable separation agreement on behalf of the Senate caucus. Well, wait a minute, then why? Why would you be prohibited from discussing personnel matters if this person didn't work for you? They worked for the caucus, right? I don't understand.

[00:09:11] The party later added that the chairwoman, Anderson Clayton, who's going to win back the rural votes, y'all, because she says y'all and cusses. Anyway, she had no involvement with the matters which are the subject of your inquiry. OK, her fingerprints aren't anywhere on this. OK. Battleground state parties frequently scale up their operations during presidential election years.

[00:09:33] John Doe had a temporary contract, but had been on the Democrat Party's payroll since October of 2023 to a full year prior. And he's on the state party payroll, but he's working for the Senate caucus. Asked about the Democrat Party's statement and the details of the John Doe case, the Senate caucus offered a different characterization of its relationship to the state party. All right.

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[00:10:59] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. The North Carolina Democrat Party says that the Senate caucus functions separately from the state party. What does the Senate caucus say? Here's their statement. As a matter of standard practice, we do not discuss specific personnel matters or decisions. We can confirm that the Senate caucus operates within the broader.

[00:11:31] We operate within the broader structure of the state Democrat Party with the North Carolina Democrat Party managing human resources, legal affairs, compliance and operations functions. Beyond this organizational clarification. We are not in a position to provide any further comment on this matter. Okay, well, that sounds like it's not the same thing. Right?

[00:11:58] When the party says the caucus functions separately from the state party and the caucus says we operate within the broader structure and that the party manages HR, legal affairs, compliance and operations functions. I feel like that covers a lot of it, especially in relationship to this particular complaint. No?

[00:12:22] Doesn't it seem like that's like you got a sexual harassment complaint from a staffer in the caucus against their boss in the caucus? I feel like that is covered by HR, legal affairs, compliance and operation. Actually, all four of them. It feels like they, yeah, it feels like it falls under all four.

[00:12:45] Later on in the Huffington Post article, according to John Doe's email complaint obtained by the Huffington Post, Jane Doe, his boss, she's not named in the complaint. Or in the story, I should say. Encouraged him for months to believe that he did have a long term future with the party, including a permanent fundraising role in 2025,

[00:13:11] which would be past his, the end of his December contract. Okay, so his contract ends in December after the election, right? And she keeps sort of stringing him along. Oh, yeah, you're totally going to get a full-time gig. You're totally going to get a full-time gig. As a result, he felt that staying in her good graces was a professional necessity. Right?

[00:13:39] If she's, if she's holding the keys, much like the locksmith at Yosemite, if she is holding the keys to your future access to a full-time permanent gig with the Democrat Party, then yeah, it makes sense. You want to stay in her good graces. Under at least some sense of duress, he said, he agreed to take care of personal chores for her. I don't know what those are. I have not seen the complaint.

[00:14:08] There's no link to it in the story, so I don't know what the complaint is or what these chores are. But I got a pretty good idea. Like, I'm thinking they probably start off with, like, getting my dry cleaning, maybe running to the grocery store, maybe walking my dog, watching the kid. I don't know. Like, I don't know what these personal chores are. But she's using a staffer for her own personal benefit.

[00:14:38] Like, doesn't she understand? Like, that's what, that's what interns are for. Use interns for that. What are you doing? Anyway. Um, so he does the personal chores. He then feels, again, under some sense of duress to regularly socialize with her after work. So is this like dating? Well, finally, one night in September, they had relations.

[00:15:04] And after that, he said he felt that Jane Doe was suddenly cold to him and gradually cut him out of responsibilities that had once been his. So she got what she wanted. And now he's dead to her. In conjunction with the state party attorneys, the party presented John Doe with a deal, which why would the party do that if the caucus is operating separately?

[00:15:31] Anyway, the party presents him with a deal in which he would take the hush money, much like Stormy Daniels, that the Democrats are totally against this kind of an arrangement. But they did it, apparently, right? He would stop working at the close of that work week, which would be a week earlier than his contract expired. He would waive the right to sue. He would refrain from speaking about the agreement or disparaging the party.

[00:15:56] In return, the party agreed to extend his regular pay and his health care coverage. They got rid of his health care coverage. Oh, my gosh. Democrats, they tried to kill this guy by taking his health care. It's a right. Anyway, they gave him the pay and coverage through the end of January, which now has passed. And so now, coincidentally, he got paid.

[00:16:24] He got his insurance coverage through January. And so now the story comes out. And they said they would give positive references for future jobs. Now, in cases of alleged sexual harassment, the North Carolina Democratic Party's employee handbook requires the party to immediately undertake a thorough, objective and confidential investigation of the harassment allegations.

[00:16:49] And so now the question is, did that actually happen or did they just pay him the hush money? Which they are totally opposed to doing, at least in the case of Donald Trump. All right. I hope you had a happy holiday season. But tell me if something like this happened at your house. Your family and friends are gathered around. Maybe y'all are in the living room. You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing. And then somebody says, hey, dad, remember those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred?

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[00:18:06] I don't know the names of the victim or the accused, but I am certain that like 99% of the people in Raleigh know who these people are. And so it's probably just a matter of time before their names get out. The North Carolina Democrat Senate Caucus, according to Huffington Post, has autonomy in day-to-day affairs.

[00:18:35] But contrary to the state party's suggestion in its statement to the Huffington Post, the Senate Caucus is fundamentally an arm of the party. The party funds all of the Senate Caucus operations, including the salaries of all the caucus workers. That's according to public financial disclosures. As the Senate Caucus noted in its statement to the Huffington Post and confirmed by other sources,

[00:19:06] the Senate Caucus relies on the state party to handle general human resources matters. And it relies on the party's lawyers for matters requiring legal counsel. And that makes sense, right?

[00:19:23] You're not going to build an entire infrastructure for what is ostensibly these temporary projects to try to recruit and then run and help the campaigns of Senate candidates at the state level. You don't need that running all the time, so you don't need to build out all of that infrastructure. The state party's already got it, so you're just like piggybacking off of them.

[00:19:50] Senate Caucus employees even receive the same Democrat Party employee handbook. God, I'd really love to read that. I bet they've got a whole chapter on pronouns in that thing. Anyway, it ensures, the handbook ensures a thorough investigation of sexual harassment claims, at least according to the three sources that the Huffington Post spoke to that have knowledge of the matter.

[00:20:18] The Democrat Party has denied that its chair, its little rock star, Anderson Clayton, who gets invited to all of the national TV shows, you know, on MSNBC and NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, right? She makes those appearances pretty regularly because, you know, her record is so stellar in turning the state blue.

[00:20:42] She, but the party has denied that she had any involvement with John Doe's complaint. But three sources say she has the right to intervene if she wanted to. If she had said stop, they would have stopped. But she's not talking. She hasn't said anything about this. And again, I remind you that the labor law experts say that this guy actually has a case.

[00:21:13] They then go over a bit of her history in this Huffington Post article, which again, I point out the timing of this, probably planted by people who want to oust her because the election for chair is tomorrow. Tomorrow, I think, I think it's the 22nd and yeah, yeah, they vote on their officers tomorrow.

[00:21:34] So I think this is an effort to harm her and try to affect leadership changes inside the party the day before. That's why it went to the Huffington Post, right? Clayton, when she first became chair, that was 2023. And remember that she was like the, quote, grassroots candidate.

[00:21:58] She ran on reviving the party's connection to rural voters with it with a 100 county organizing strategy. A departure from the party's usual focus on the base and persuadable moderates in the suburbs and in a state party where moderate Democrats have historically dominated, she was squarely from the progressive wing.

[00:22:21] And she was, so she's this, you know, progressive Democrat who's going to win back the rural votes with a 100 county organizing strategy to get all of these rural Trump voters to vote for Democrats because they apparently are not paying any attention to, like, the level of insanity that has completely taken over the Democrat party thanks to progressives or something. Oh, also, she cusses. And she says y'all a lot. And she's from Person County, y'all.

[00:22:50] And so that's going to win over all those rural Trump voters. Look, it got her the chairmanship, right? She beat in that election the incumbent chair that had the endorsement of Roy Cooper and, like, the various party leaders in elected office and such. She beat Bobby Richardson, state lawmaker, black female, right?

[00:23:17] But the white female could take the black female's gig, and that's not racist, okay? Because it's Democrat. It's different. Anyway, it's not a big surprise that Clayton, now 27, is currently the strong favorite to win a second two-year term as chair. The state executive committee, which consists of more than 640 people, is set to vote on officers tomorrow.

[00:23:44] As of this writing, former congressional candidate Marlando Pridgin is Clayton's only declared challenger. And then they close on a quote from an outspoken Clayton critic named Gracie Galloway, who is the founder of the North Carolina Democrat Party's Asian-American and Pacific Islander Caucus. She said, quote, She is young, inexperienced, and arrogant.

[00:24:14] For goodness sake, listen to people who have been around the block a few times. Clayton did not respond to a request for comment. And if any of this sounds a wee bit familiar, I want to give you a name. I'm going to throw out a name. Jay Parmele. That's not the undercover private investigator guy from Arrested Development. This is Jay Parmele.

[00:24:44] Jay Parmele was the executive director of the North Carolina Democrat Party. And Jay Parmele harassed a male staffer. And then I think they fired the guy. And then the chairman, David Parker, he resigned over the scandal because of the way it was handled. And so they ousted David Parker.

[00:25:14] So the fight between sort of the establishment Democrat Party members and the moonbat progressive wing of the Democrat Party. Right. Don't call it a civil war, though. This is not a civil war. Those, while, yes, they are started by Democrats traditionally. But the civil war only happens in the Republican Party. For media reporting purposes, it's Democrats are in disarray. Right.

[00:25:44] Or they have some conflict or something or they have contentiousness. But never a civil war. Never. But David Parker was establishment guy. Okay. And so he stepped down in the wake of the Jay Parmele scandal. This was in 2012. Okay. This was also when Republicans took control. When I talk about how Democrats controlled the state for a century and a half almost.

[00:26:13] And then Republicans took over in 2010. They won a majority of the legislature. Tom Tillis was the architect of that victory. And he's credited as being such. He and so the Democrats had been just completely gutted. Right. They had lost the legislature. I think at that point, Bev Perdue was governor. And yes, she was. And then in 2012, Pat McCrory beats Walter Dalton, the lieutenant governor.

[00:26:42] And I talk about all of the scandals that were just swirling around the Democrat Party. This was one of them. And this wasn't the only one, by the way. I believe there was another leader of the Democrat Party that had a similar accusation against him. So David Parker resigns over this. But then they go to their vote and the membership reelects him. They put him back in.

[00:27:07] And I say that just because this issue is not new to the state Democrat Party that holds itself up with all of its virtue signaling as if it is the moral arbiter. Right. As if it has some some moral high ground. To criticize the hush money deal with Donald Trump, for example. And yet you're doing the exact same thing. You paid hush money to a staffer.

[00:27:38] A staffer that says under duress, they felt that they had to have sexual relations with their superior. And then got frozen out, had their responsibility stripped from them and you paid him to go away. That's exactly what you were accusing Donald Trump of doing and why that made him unfit. Yet you get to do the same thing. Don't ever change Democrats, really. I appreciate the show prep. Here's a great idea.

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[00:29:23] John says regarding the sex scandal, he says, don't forget the cocaine use story. And so, yes, there is a story that is floating around Democrat Party circles as well, that the vice chair of the party, Jonah Garson, this came from an unsigned email sent to Democrat Party leaders yesterday, or sorry, Wednesday,

[00:29:51] accusing the first vice chair, Jonah Garson, of a, quote, pattern of reckless behavior, including drug use. That he openly did cocaine. Once again, a buried lead. Apparently, Hunter Biden has been the first vice chair of the North Carolina Democrat Party. That's the real story here. Garson denies all the allegations.

[00:30:18] Once again, keep in mind, their election for these positions, the party election is tomorrow. Saturday. So that's why they're smearing all of their own colleagues here. It's because they want power. And so they're spreading rumors. They're telling stories or the truth. I don't know. I have no idea if any of this is true. All I'm telling you is what's being reported. But I do find it to be pretty on brand, right?

[00:30:47] That. Like. They're doing this to their own. This is how they engage in politics, even when it is inside their own party. Let me see here. I have some other emails and messages regarding the. Yeah.

[00:31:10] Regarding the story that came to us from the Washington Post, bemoaning the fact that California's Yosemite National Park has a locksmith. But that locksmith got fired. And now apparently nobody is going to be able to unlock any doors or facilities because he's the guy that has all the keys and nobody else knows how to operate the doors or something. You know, thanks a lot, Elon. Right. So that's the whole this is the malicious compliance.

[00:31:39] And I pointed out that. Like getting fired, getting riffed, you know, not for cause. You didn't do anything wrong. It's just the budget doesn't support your position anymore. The business has to make cuts. You happen to be in that role that they're cutting. And it stinks. I have been there twice, at least that I know of. And it's not fun. I get it. It's scary.

[00:32:03] But it oftentimes leads to much better things for you because you kind of get into like a into a status quo norm bias and you don't want to rock the boat. You just get into a routine and all of that. And when you do get let go, it forces you now to think about doing different things in a way that you would not have otherwise done. And so it can often lead to better opportunities for you.

[00:32:34] For example, here is from The Hellion, who says, I have been laid off of three awesome IT jobs since 1995. It's part of life. It is. Timoteo says, I have been in Churubusco, Mexico since Sunday. This is the first chance I have had to stream the show. The family down here is a bit Trump averse and or adverse and anything not Democrat.

[00:33:02] So it's going to be spotty getting to listen to your show. The point being, if it hasn't already happened, you have now gone international. Good luck with locksmithing. Oh, crap. The family just walked in. Got to go. Thank you, Timoteo. Yeah, because I said I might just endeavor to move to California and become a locksmith in the Yosemite Park area. Because apparently there are no locksmiths in this area, which is like the size of Rhode Island.

[00:33:31] Because, like, if I need a locksmith or if you need a locksmith, you don't hire a locksmith and put them on a payroll, right? You just hire them for the one job. You just call a locksmith service. They come. They do whatever the locksmithing needs require. And you pay them. And then they go off and do another job. That's a better use of their time and your money, right?

[00:33:59] So why are we employing some guy to be the locksmith for Yosemite National Park? His name, by the way, is Nate Vince. And he says,

[00:34:32] Why would you set up a system with a single point of failure? Oh, it's the government. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now it makes sense. That's why I have always believed, by the way, that the Death Star was built by government. It's the only explanation. Right? Why would you build that Death Star that could blow up a whole planet, but then make some Achilles heel, right?

[00:34:59] Where somebody could just fly down that route and just, you know, shoot this little hole and then boom, the whole thing blows up. Why would you do that? Oh, but Pete, they secured it with these laser mounted turrets and stuff. Right? So they knew, right? They knew it was a problem to the point where they put all of these guns in the valley, but made the valley big enough for you to fly an X-wing through. Why?

[00:35:29] Doesn't make any sense. Also, I believe that the rebels probably had infiltrated the weapons factory for the Imperial Empire. There's no other explanation that I can come up with as to why all of the stormtroopers' guns never hit anybody. That doesn't make any sense.

[00:35:55] You get like seven to ten of these stormtroopers shooting down a hallway and they can't hit anybody. So I'm thinking the rebels got guys on the inside and they were messing with the scopes on all of the laser rifles. Because that makes sense. That makes more sense than you sending all these stormtroopers out there and they can't hit the broad side of a barn. That makes way more sense, you know?

[00:36:21] By the way, this guy Vince, Nate Vince, the locksmith, he started working as a permanent employee at the park last March. So he was coming up on his one-year anniversary where his probationary period would be over. But before that, he worked four years as a seasonal employee. So you were seasonal and then they made you full-time on a probationary period for a year.

[00:36:49] And then Doge is like, no, get rid of all the seasonal employees. And they're like, sorry, you got to go, locksmith guy. So you can still do the seasonal work. But even that's kind of like, why are you on staff permanently for a whole season? But doesn't that make a little bit more sense? Why would you make it a permanent post? Again, I feel like there's an opportunity for me to make a bunch of money if I just learn to locksmith.

[00:37:12] But he says he's the only one, he's the sole keeper of the keys, the one that makes the keys, the one that fixes the locks, installs the locks, and has all the knowledge of the security behind the park. And so it's a critical role. It was a critical role when you were seasonal. It just became more critical or something that they hired you full-time. This doesn't make sense. There's something about this that doesn't make sense.

[00:37:38] He says it's a critical role, and without it, anyone or everyone else in the park is handicapped. And now you're actually fired because we don't use the word handicapped any longer, Vince. Okay? We don't use that word. Specially abled. Everybody is specially abled. This is a GovCo operation, man. I still think they could do something with the parking system.

[00:38:06] By the way, the Yosemite, they got 450 employees there. And they fired the locksmith. If it's such a mission-critical job, why didn't you fire another one of the 450? It makes no sense except malicious compliance. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them, too, and tell them you heard it here.

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